A. Hall, Cedric English, L. Jones, Tony Westbury, Russell Martindale
{"title":"An evaluation of the transition from an amateur to professional culture within Hong Kong’s Elite Rugby Programme","authors":"A. Hall, Cedric English, L. Jones, Tony Westbury, Russell Martindale","doi":"10.1080/21640629.2022.2074245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2022.2074245","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43190,"journal":{"name":"Sports Coaching Review","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76122415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foreign coaches viewed through media discourse","authors":"Mário Borges, A. Rosado, Rita de Oliveira","doi":"10.1080/21640629.2022.2077519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2022.2077519","url":null,"abstract":"The main focus of the present research is to investigate the media discourse about foreign coaches. This study explores the perspectives of host and donor countries through their media discourse, using the theoretical lens of established and outsiders. A media analysis was used to investigate how foreign coaches were represented in the media. Multiple sources were cross-referenced to capture the media and public opinions prior to, during and after national and international sport events. We found 257 media texts published between April 2012 and August 2014, in four different languages. The results showed the polarisation of the media discourse with foreign coaches either portrayed as instru- mental for sport development and success, or stigmatised as unsuccessful mercenaries with no attachment to the host country. . These results highlight the importance of cultural awareness and media training especially for coaches dealing with the media of a host country.","PeriodicalId":43190,"journal":{"name":"Sports Coaching Review","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85616044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What if I had made a different decision? Experienced regrets of college coaches","authors":"Jamie E. Robbins, Leilani Madrigal","doi":"10.1080/21640629.2022.2073135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2022.2073135","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Regret is a negative emotion elicited by thoughts that different actions or inactions would have yielded better outcomes. Although experienced feelings of regret can have negative consequences, anticipated regrets may positively impact decision-making. Coaches make numerous decisions daily, yet there is a dearth of information related to coaches and regret. Coaches’ emotions are commonly neglected in sports literature. To fill that gap, the current study explored experienced regrets of college coaches. Coaches were emailed an electronic survey. A total of 125 male and female coaches from a variety of sports responded, and 83.2% admitted having regrets. All regrets were content analysed, revealing three major themes: (a) sport-specific decisions, (b) coach-athlete interactions, and (c) personal. Current findings provide initial insights into college coaches’ regrets, and the researchers provide suggestions for minimising similar regrets among future coaches.","PeriodicalId":43190,"journal":{"name":"Sports Coaching Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"346 - 367"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74515306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First Nation stories of coaching barriers: a Mi’kmaq perspective","authors":"J. Gurgis, B. Callary, Levi Denny","doi":"10.1080/21640629.2022.2073136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2022.2073136","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Indigenous coaches play an essential role in educating Indigenous youth about the value of sport and facilitate strong relationships between sport and culture. Unfortunately, across all levels of sport and coaching in Canada, Indigenous sport participation is hindered by a lack of Indigenous coaches. Using a narrative analysis, the following study sought to understand the barriers affecting the development and inclusion of Indigenous coaches in Canada. Specifically, nine Mi’kmaw First Nation coaches from Nova Scotia, Canada, participated in individual, semi-structured interviews. The interviews were interpreted using a thematic narrative analysis. The findings contributed to three distinct narratives: Trials and Tribulations, Displaced by Race, and Westernized Indigenous Education. We discuss how the integrated Indigenous-ecological model can be used as a decolonizing framework to reduce coaching barriers across each ecosystem, subsequently promoting more inclusive and culturally relevant coaching experiences for Mi’kmaw First Nation coaches.","PeriodicalId":43190,"journal":{"name":"Sports Coaching Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"343 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89600457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“This is the next frontier of performance”: power and knowledge in coaches “proactive” approaches to sportswomen’s health","authors":"K. Schofield, H. Thorpe, S. Sims","doi":"10.1080/21640629.2022.2060635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2022.2060635","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While research has explored coach knowledge on Low Energy Availability (LEA) and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S), this is the first paper to explore how coaches are responding in their practices. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews with high-performance and elite coaches, this paper focuses on the experiences, lessons learnt and methods of coaches who adopt “proactive” approaches with their sportswomen regarding LEA and RED-S)related topics. Engaging a feminist poststructural approach, we explore four key themes: (i) the initial impetus to change practices, (ii) challenges encountered, (iii) strategies developed in the process of improving their own and others knowledge of LEA, and (iv) the gendered reactions and experiences of creating change. Ultimately, adopting a feminist poststructuralist lens to examine coach “proactive” approaches to sportswomen’s health encourages a more critical exploration of the workings of power through knowledge and language within the highly gendered elite sport environment.","PeriodicalId":43190,"journal":{"name":"Sports Coaching Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"324 - 345"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82089590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tyler Yearby, Shawn Myszka, W. Roberts, C. Woods, K. Davids
{"title":"Applying an ecological approach to practice design in American football: some case examples on best practice","authors":"Tyler Yearby, Shawn Myszka, W. Roberts, C. Woods, K. Davids","doi":"10.1080/21640629.2022.2057698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2022.2057698","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we outline an ecological approach to practice design in American football to support coaches in helping players to coordinate skilled movement behaviours in dynamic performance environments. This approach may require moving away from some long-held practice approaches traditionally employed by some coaches across all performance levels. To guide this progression, we present two novel case examples to support coaches interested in moving towards more contemporary pedagogical frameworks that support the notion of their role as a practice designer , centralising athlete-environment interactions. Distinctively, through the utilisation of a constraints-led methodology, coaches could design practice tasks to offer opportunities for players to interact with challenging performance problems. Our case examples range from high school players to National Football League stand-outs to support the implementation of alternative approaches to practice design, exploring what an ecological dynamics rationale could look, feel and sound like in the context of American football.","PeriodicalId":43190,"journal":{"name":"Sports Coaching Review","volume":"12 3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82625877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combining coaching with family life. A study of female and male elite level coaches in Norway","authors":"M. Sisjord, K. Fasting, T. Sand","doi":"10.1080/21640629.2021.1984047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2021.1984047","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The challenges of combining work and family life has been considered a women’s issue, also reflected in research. In recent years, scholars have argued that the work-family interface may also concern male coaches. Therefore, the present study takes both genders into account. We made qualitative interview with 13 women and six men. The findings revealed similarities as well as differences. For women, support from the spouse was decisive for taking on and maintaining the position, whereas men primarily made the decisions on their own. The responsibility for childcare was far more important among the women. The male coaches seemed more traditional, except for two younger men who gave priority to the fatherhood role. The findings are discussed in relation to a multi-level model, where individual choices/practice may be understood in relation to requirements from the organisation of sport as well as gender roles in the society at large.","PeriodicalId":43190,"journal":{"name":"Sports Coaching Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"232 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76767779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Foucault coach: turning post-structural assumptions into coaching praxis","authors":"J. Mills, B. Gearity, C. Kuklick, Jordan Bible","doi":"10.1080/21640629.2022.2057696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2022.2057696","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Foucauldian-inspired coaching practices have been a recent focus in the Foucauldian coaching studies literature. There can be no denying the emergence of a number of ethical coaching practices in synergy with Foucault’s work, yet in most coaches’ everyday practices there appears to have been little uptake. Accordingly, our central concern in this paper is considering how Foucault’s work could become a more deliberate feature of coaching. Using Thomas Kuhn’s concept of paradigms, we argue that more significant change is yet to occur because coach education does not include the post-structural paradigmatic assumptions underpinning Foucault’s work. As a result, coaches immersed in a modern disciplinary logic may interpret Foucauldian-inspired practices through incommensurable assumptions. In this paper, we develop numerous post-structural assumptions into coaching post-structural praxis (CPSP) to demonstrate what those assumptions mean for coaches’ knowledge and practice.","PeriodicalId":43190,"journal":{"name":"Sports Coaching Review","volume":"45 5 1","pages":"192 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90115483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. B. Kjær, Daniel Bjärsholm, P. G. Fahlström, Susanne Linnér
{"title":"Breaking through? Exploring care in the early life of elite Swedish athletes","authors":"J. B. Kjær, Daniel Bjärsholm, P. G. Fahlström, Susanne Linnér","doi":"10.1080/21640629.2022.2057695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2022.2057695","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Through retrospective interviews with 14 Swedish elite athletes, this qualitative study explores care among the early life of elite athletes. Using Nel Noddings’ care theory as a framework for the data, the study considers caring practices from significant others in the micro-environment of the emerging elite athlete. Athletes highlight the natural care they received as children from their parents and the ethical care they received by their coaches as instrumental in their athletic upbringing, especially during the junior to senior level transition. Consequently, we suggest ethical care supplements natural care. This paper also introduces Noddings’ concept of practice and discusses opportunities and challenges in the coach-athlete relationship based on caring. Implications of this study problematise the role sport organisations play in supporting natural and ethical care among stakeholders in the micro-environment.","PeriodicalId":43190,"journal":{"name":"Sports Coaching Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"68 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89711913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contending with vulnerability and uncertainty: what coaches say about coaching","authors":"Charles L. T. Corsby, Robyn L. Jones, A. Lane","doi":"10.1080/21640629.2022.2057697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2022.2057697","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In exploring how coaches contend with their professional vulnerability, the purpose of this paper is three-fold. Firstly, to describe the informal rules of coaching that demand the appearance and expression of a certain persona. Secondly, to examine how such rules are tied to a culture of ‘the individual”; and, thirdly, to demonstrate how coaches’ accounts of their work not only reflect, but also ensure such practices. The dataset emanated from 20 individual interviews with professional football coaches. Although taking full consideration of what the coaches actually said, the analysis sought to explore what the explanations were standing on behalf of; what Garfinkel described as an “official (professional) line”. The findings pointed to coaches’ necessity to ‘work hard’, to do things the ‘right way’, whilst limitedly acknowledging any vulnerability associated with the job. Positioned as a ‘greedy institution’, the narrative appeared as a means to contend with the difficulties coaches encountered.","PeriodicalId":43190,"journal":{"name":"Sports Coaching Review","volume":"4 1","pages":"323 - 342"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81299056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}