Scientists are getting closer to understanding why some elite athletes use less brain power than others. The element of surprise at training can help train the phenomenon.
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Athletics New Zealand joins a long list of sports bodies dealing with abuse of female athletes. But systemic reform is taking far too long.
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Even though Maryland college football coach DJ Durkin has been fired, his 11th hour ouster will not rid college football of some of its deepest problems, argue two scholars on race and college sports.
Despite participation rates in women’s sport growing exponentially in recent years, the number of women in coaching positions has remained frustratingly stagnant.
Children’s sports coaches are underpaid, under qualified and often unappreciated.
The telltale signs of burnout … and what to do about them.
Methods used to get athletes to their peak would be unacceptable outside of the stadium, but success papers over a lot of cracks.
Just because you were good at sport does not mean you can coach without furthering your qualifications and experiences.
Olympic athletes play an important role within the sport-for-development agenda. But because they both inspire and lead, coaches may be better placed to assume that mantle.
Principais colaboradores
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Associate Professor, Health and Physical Education/Sport Development, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Politics & International Relations, UNSW Sydney
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Director of Sport, Performance and Health, Heriot-Watt University
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Former Professor of Management and Business History
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Associate Professor, Sports Coaching; Affiliate, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Coaching and Pedagogy; Director of Sport Integration, Loughborough University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology, Sheffield Hallam University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Durham University
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Senior Research Fellow, Leeds Beckett University
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Assistant Professor in Coaching and Sport Psychology, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Connecticut
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Professor in Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta
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Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
