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SPKN: Elevating Sport Leadership
The Role of SPKN in Advancing Coaching Education As the landscape of youth sports evolves, the demand for well-trained, well-rounded coaches has never been greater. The Sports Professional Knowledge Network (SPKN) is at the forefront of this movement, offering comprehensive educational resources designed to elevate coaching standards. SPKN’s mission is to equip coaches with the…
Elevating Coaching Standards: The Need for better Coaches
Coaches play a pivotal role in shaping young athletes, not just in terms of physical ability but also in fostering resilience, character, and overall well-being. However, many youth sports programs lack sufficient training and education for coaches, leading to issues such as athlete burnout, injuries, poor communication, and inadequate emotional support. Without proper guidance, coaches…
Exploring the Realm of Para-Athletes: The Intersection of Sports and Superhuman Strength
Enhancing Sport Knowledge: Well-Being and Quality-of-Life in Para Athletes
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Gender Equity in Sport-Science Academia: We Still Have a Long Way to Go!
Despite the strides made toward gender equity in sport-science academia, significant challenges persist, particularly in leadership representation and career advancement for women. Although women constitute a substantial portion of postgraduate and PhD students in this field, their presence in senior academic roles remains disproportionately low. This disparity extends to research publication leadership, where female authorship…
The industry-academic nexus: a case study of collaboration
Rationale/Purpose: Little research has been completed in a New Zealand sport context exploring the industry-academic nexus. The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of a collaboration between a sport organisation and researchers to provide insights learned from the key partners’ perceptions. Design/Methodology/Approach: Within a case study design, a qualitative thematic analysis of…
Promoting a culture change in junior and youth sport in New Zealand
This paper provides insight into the evolution of a project designed to address longstanding adult attitudes and behavioural issues in junior and youth sport in New Zealand. The project was funded by Sport New Zealand (Sport NZ) and implemented by Aktive, a charitable trust that works with national and regional partners to fund and deliver…
The Elimination of Varsity Sports at a Division I Institution
The elimination and subsequent reinstatement of five varsity sports at the University of California, Berkeley during the 2010-11 academic year may provide a modern success story in college sports, but the events which transpired at Berkeley also exposed many of the fundamental tensions inherent to NCAA Division I athletics today. This success story might be…
Well-being and quality of life in people with disabilities practicing sports, athletes with disabilities, and para-athletes: Insights from a critical review of the literature
Global well-being (GWB) is a complex, multi-dimensional, and multi-faceted construct that can be explored from two different, but often overlapping, complementary perspectives: the subjective and the objective ones. The subjective perspective, in turn, is comprised of two dimensions: namely, the hedonic and the eudaimonic standpoints. Within the former dimension, researchers have developed the concept of…
A Retrospective Analysis of Leadership Development Through Sport
The purpose of this study was to examine the development of six leader-athletes. In-depth qualitative interviews were used to explore the various activities that leader athletes engaged in from an early age as well as the roles and influences that peers, coaches, and parents played within these activities. Results indicated that leadership development in sport…
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