Despite participation rates in women’s sport growing exponentially in recent years, the number of women in coaching positions has remained frustratingly stagnant.
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Research shows that coaching employees makes them feel valued and empowered, and builds better relationships with management.
Exercise practitioners are taught to help us set goals to get active. But the way we set goals may be unhelpful, or worse, make it even harder for us to exercise.
Methods used to get athletes to their peak would be unacceptable outside of the stadium, but success papers over a lot of cracks.
Racewalking has been part of the Olympic Games since 1904, but gets little respect in the United States. That might change if Americans knew a little more about it.
Politicians are often eager to embrace the support of sports stars. But when Donald Trump trots out a very specific type of athlete and coach at his events, who's he really trying to appeal to?
For coaches like Ohio State's Urban Meyer, it's not just about X's and O's.
Long-running tension between Australian athletics team captain Sally Pearson and head coach Eric Hollingsworth has boiled over after the coach was suspended for publicly criticising the Olympic gold medallist…
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Associate Professor in Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
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Simon Rosenbaum is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Professor, Human Development and Family Science & Dean/Director, Ohio State Mansfield Campus, The Ohio State University
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Pennsylvania State University
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Lecturer In Sport Coaching, Deakin University
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