Courtney Leigh Szto (born 1984) is a Canadian assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University at Kingston.

"[2] She attended North Delta Secondary School[3] and earned her Bachelor of Human Kinetics degree from the University of British Columbia.

[4] As a graduate student, Szto received the 2014 Dr. Hari Sharma Foundation Annual Graduate Scholarship award[5] and was a finalist for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Storytellers grant.

[6] Upon receiving her PhD in 2018, Szto accepted an assistant professor position in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University at Kingston.

[3] Szto would republish the study in 2020 in the form of her first book titled Changing on the fly: hockey through the voices of South Asian Canadians.