Team Ontario Athlete Isaline Alexander Featured on TVO’s Mystery Files

Team Ontario athlete Isaline Alexander appeared on a recent TVO Kids’ Mystery Files episode about basketball and its history.

Mystery Files is an educational series that focuses on history and sociology. Its goal is to teach children how the past affects our world and how we live today.

The episode with Isaline is called “The Mystery of Sticks and Stones” and features sports with Canadian roots—basketball, lacrosse and hockey. It looks at the history of basketball and the influence Dr. James Naismith’s invention has had on the world today.

Filming for the episode took place in late August last year at the James Naismith Museum in Almonte, Ontario, the birthplace of Dr. Naismith. Isaline’s role in the show was to discuss the history of basketball and how it became a sport.

Isaline had fun filming and says she learned a lot about television and the history of basketball, “My favourite part of being on the show was seeing how filming was done for television shows and how long it could take just to do one scene. I learned a lot more about the history of basketball than I thought existed.”

The episode premiered on July 3 and will re-air July 8 and 9 at 12:05 p.m. on TVO. (Channel 2 for most cable providers.)

You can also watch the episode online through the Mystery Files website. (The basketball segment begins at 6:54.)