Coaching Stories

Navigating Storms, Triumphs, and Transformations in Sport
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-34236-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

This inspiring text unveils the storms and triumphs of coaching in the form of case studies. It explores coaches’ stories from across the globe through a scientific lens and translates them back into coaching practice, offering essential guidance on how to support both new and experienced coaches in their work and professional development.

These stories represent coaches of various ages, genders, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, religions, and experience levels, presenting readers with a comprehensive and diverse overview of coaching and its varied and complex demands. Each powerful case study helps readers see coaching through a different lens, prompting reflection, thoughtful discussion, and creative problem-solving. Designed to instruct, reveal, and inform, the authors provide key takeaways, highlighting successes and challenges, as they consider what makes (and breaks) a coach as a person and performer, and what contributes to sustainable coaching performance. The cases are organized thematically into six parts, with each chapter including a story, guiding questions, relevant research literature, and practical considerations.

This book is essential reading for coaches and those working with them, including educators, coach developers, applied sport psychology practitioners, sport managers, medical staff, embedded sports scientists, and other professionals surrounding the coach. Students in sport psychology, sport coaching, sport management and other sport sciences will also benefit from these inspiring stories, and the lessons that can be taken from them.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chroni, Stiliani Ani

Olusoga, Peter

Dieffenbach, Kristen

Kenttä, Göran

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Trainingswissenschaft, Sportunterricht
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sportpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note to the reader
Coaching stories can make us better
Stiliani “Ani” Chroni, Göran Kenttä, Peter Olusoga, and Kristen Dieffenbach

Part 1. The Performance Context

1. Perusing a High-performance Coaching Career
Richard Tahtinen

2. A Female Coach in a Predominately Male Sport Environment
Frauke Kubischta

3. Breaking through Barriers to Coaching Para-sport Athletes
Amanda Leibovitz and Christine Palmquist

4. Breaking Barriers in English Football Coaching
Shameema M. Yousuf

5. Coach Developers in a multisport club: The Role of Systems Convener to Leverage Coaching Capability
Michel Milistetd, Diane Culver, Alexandre Bobato Tozetto, and Caio Corrêa Cortela

6. Emerging from the Shadows: From Supporting to Leading
Shigeki Sarodo

Part 2. Athlete focused Relationships

7. Establishing an athlete centered team culture through a shared leadership structure
Diane M. Culver, Sydney Graper, and Jennifer Boyd

8. Being on the same page! Reconciling the Coach-Athlete Relationship
Kristin McGinty-Minister, Laura Swettenham, and Amy Whitehead

9. Vulnerability: A Strength or a Weakness?
Lynda Bowers

10. Coaching from the Closet or Choosing not to
Cristina Fink

11. Tough Love and Compromised Care in the Dojo
Colum Cronin and Michael Jennings

Part 3. Managing Multiple Relationships

12. The Athlete-Coach-Physician Triangle in Return-to-play Decision-making Following a Para-Athlete’s Injury
Heinrich Grobbelaar, Suzanne Ferreira, Wayne Derman, and Wilbur Kraak

13. Working with Parents: Managing Communication and Relationship Challenges
Camilla J. Knight, Maita G. Furusa, and James Maurice

14. The Interdisciplinary team as a Support Service Provider in Elite Sport
Paul Wylleman

15. Coach Conflict with Senior Management
Christopher R.D. Wagstaff, Alessandro Quartiroli, a

Über Autor(innen)

Stiliani “Ani” Chroni, is Professor in Sport Psychology and Sport Coaching at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences in Elverum, Norway.

Peter Olusoga is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Kristen Dieffenbach is Professor in the School of Sport Sciences and Director of the Center for Applied Coaching and Sport Sciences at West Virginia University, USA.

Göran Kenttä is Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences and Head of the Sport Psychology Discipline at the Swedish Sport Confederation in Stockholm, Sweden.