The purpose of this study was to gain a thorough understanding the high school sport captaincy experience. Thirteen university freshmen (7 males, 6 females) who were captains previous year participated in 60—90 min semistructured interviews. Hierarchical content analysis data revealed that majority participants believed their captainship experience positive, but also cited difficult aspects such as having responsibility/being held accountable, being scrutinized/meeting expectations, and...

Leadership has been identified as an important but underdeveloped life skill among youth athletes. This article discusses a recent effort to develop leadership by taking formal educational approach the sport captaincy experience. More specifically, Institute for Study of Youth Sports partnered with Michigan High School Athletic Association create MHSAA Captain's Training Program. The program's design, structure, and content are discussed well our biggest successes, challenges, future...

To gain an in depth understanding of the youth leadership development process sport, qualitative interviews were conducted with high school coaches (6 males; 4 females) known for cultivating their captains. Hierarchical content analyses revealed that all reported proactive approaches toward teaching through sport. However, based on principles noted positive literature, these could do more to enhance practices (e.g., empowering captains by often involving them important decision-making)....

Athletes are expected to distinguish themselves from their peers, make sacrifices for the good of game, play through pain and injury, push physical mental limits on path achieve goals. Collectively, these expectations known as ‘sport ethic’ while they considered part sport culture, athletes who overconform them engage in behaviours that pose potentially serious health risks. To explore athlete identity deviant overconformity, this study was designed within a psychocultural life story...

Using a cross-sectional, mixed-method design, this study examined the frequency and psychosocial correlates of eating disorder (ED) symptomatology among male figure skaters (n = 29; Mage 18.45 years) explored their perspectives on skating-related weight pressures. One participant (3.7%) scored within range clinical ED. Body mass index, sport-related pressures, body dissatisfaction explained 30% variance in ED symptomatology; only pressures were significant. Although most endorsed positive...

Despite reports that there has been a positive trend in perception and treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) individuals recent years (Griffin, 2012 ; Loftus, 2001 ), sport, general, is still an uncertain, sometimes even hostile, environment for LGB athletes (Anderson, 2005 Waldron & Krane, ). To gain more information on coach understanding perceptions the team environment, 10 high school head coaches United States were interviewed to explore their experiences coaching openly athletes....

Leadership is a powerful life skill that influences the future of our local, national and global communities. Despite many positive productive changes observed in leadership opportunities for women girls, they remain highly under-represented positional roles. The development empowerment girls has become an increasingly popular topic books, websites "strong girl" advertisement campaigns. At grassroots level, physical educators coaches must attend to these efforts novel ways, as education...

In this study, the authors examined female competitive figure skaters’ experiences of weight pressure in sport. Perceptions ideal skating body; sources pressure; ways that body image, weight-management behaviors, and athletic performance have been affected; recommendations for improving image were explored. Aligning with a social constructivist view (Creswell, 2014), data analyzed using an inductive thematic approach (Braun & Clarke, 2006). Skaters described inflexible fashion little...

This study examined associations between level of sport participation, goal and sportspersonship orientations, moral reasoning in nonsport situations orientation by participation interactions. Participants were individuals with elite (n = 176), high school 183), youth 78) participation. When judging situations, who participated sports demonstrated poorer than those sports. At low levels sportspersonship, higher was positively related to positive negatively ego but did not differ Within...

A multi-level ecological-intersectional model has been proposed as a way of understanding the intersecting social identities that shape women's experience power and injustices in sports coaching. Using case study one most longstanding Division I National Collegiate Athletic Association woman soccer coaches, Coach Nikki Izzo-Brown, we investigated constructs processes shaped her coaching career trajectory how intersectional nature these enabled to navigate leadership labyrinth. Data were...

The Bodies in Motion program, based on the extant literature body image women and female athletes, integrates cognitive dissonance self-compassion principles to promote a healthy self image. In this study, we qualitatively examined written responses of 116 collegiate athletes regarding their impressions program. Through social constructivist lens, used thematic analysis examine what they believed learned as well if, how, thought these lessons informed views themselves bodies both at end...

Dancers, like athletes, frequently endure injuries and disordered eating as a result of performance-specific demands. The purpose this study was to explore the relationship between severe from perspectives female professional dancers. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 dancers ages 18–38 ( M = 23; SD 6.2) whose dance participation suspended for 4–36 weeks 12.69; 10.09) due dance-related injury. We adopted social constructivist stance view experiences through lens...

The 7.8 million adolescents participating in interscholastic sport have the potential to learn leadership skills through their experience. However, for serve this educational purpose, athletes must be actively engaged training experiences. Student-Athlete Leadership Academy (SALA) is a community-based development program high school student-athletes established partnership between AASP-certified consultants and athletic administrators Western Pennsylvania. This article offers overview of...

Research with injured athletes highlights a considerable lack of support from coaches during rehabilitation, yet coaches’ perspectives are rarely studied. Knowledge critical to effective coaching has been examined, but not within the context injury. Thirteen were interviewed regarding (1) perceptions their role (2) use International Sport Coaching Framework (ISCF) knowledge types athletes, and (3) perceived barriers providing support. Data analysed using deductive focused coding based on...

The purpose of this qualitative investigation was to examine male competitive figure skaters’ experiences weight pressure in sport. Specifically, perceptions the ideal skating body, sources elite skating, and perceived role their sport shaping body image, athletic performance, eating, exercise behaviors were explored. Through a social constructivist lens, an inductive thematic analysis used contextual influences environment. Thirteen skaters ages 16–24 ( M = 18.53, SD 3.33) with average...

Figure skaters experience pressure associated with their sport to change body weight, shape, or size meet appearance and performance expectations. may different body-related expectations based on gender despite performing in identical similar training competition environments. In a qualitative investigation that examined experiences of male skaters, participants discussed some struggles, but seemed compelled discuss, unexpectedly, the plight female facing skating ideal. The present findings...

This cross-sectional study (1) described the views and practices of a national U.S. sample high school coaches on education training team captains in leadership; (2) examined if their differed as function leadership behavior coaching efficacy. Results 255 online surveys showed nearly 90% thought formal captain development programs were beneficial; only 12% used such program. Coaches with higher character-building motivation efficacy more strongly endorsed intentional perceived fewer barriers...