SHAPE America
MAY 19, 2022
We played a mostly varsity team schedule and followed the rules of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), which governed women’s collegiate athletics at that time. Here I am with the ball (circa 1981), playing on Penn State’s club team under poor field conditions.
Informed Practitioner in Sport
OCTOBER 15, 2021
This is what creates the conditions for ideas to evolve. Beyond protecting status, another more simple motivation for individuals and institutions is simply sparing themselves the embarrassment of having the flaws in their teachings and writings exposed. Naysayers are not always helpful or motivated by a desire to help the collective.
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Informed Practitioner in Sport
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
To give an example from the UK, the 2017 Duty of Care in Sport independent report to government included the recommendation that more be done for ‘adult safeguarding’, including for those competing at elite-level and professional sportspeople. This is especially pertinent as the coach-athlete relationship is necessarily conditional.
Informed Practitioner in Sport
DECEMBER 29, 2020
Moreover, the particular ideology and academic constructs students are presented with are rarely stress-tested under real life conditions (hence there is much dogma that survives in academic teaching and zombie ideas that persist as a result). Models of practice that are taught are not necessarily current to what is happening in the field.
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