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Relative Age Effects in Basketball: Exploring the Selection into and Successful Transition Out of a National Talent Pathway

Sports, 2021
Relative age effects (RAEs) appear consistently prevalent throughout the youth basketball literature. However, the selection into and successful transition out of a national talent pathway in basketball is yet to be explored.
Adam L. Kelly, Sergio Lorenzo Jiménez Sáiz, Alberto Lorenzo Calvo, Alfonso de la Rubia, Daniel T. Jackson, Mark A. Jeffreys, Charlie Ford, Dave Owen, Sara Diana Leal dos Santos   +8 more
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Perceptions of the coach-athlete relationship predict the attainment of mastery achievement goals six months later : a two-wave longitudinal study among F.A. Premier League academy soccer players [PDF]

, 2017
All football teams that compete within the F. A. Premier League possess an academy, whose objective is to produce more and better home-grown players that are capable of playing professionally.
Adie, Amiot, Cohen, Elliot, Gaudreau, Graham, Isoard-Gautheur, Jowett, Jowett, Jowett, Jowett, Jowett, Lafrenière, LaVoi, LaVoi, Lochbaum, Mageau, Mata, Morley, Nicholls, Nicholls, Nicholls, Nicholls, Nicholls, Nicholls, Nicholls, Nicolas, Nikbin, Nunnally, Olympiou, Poczwardowski, Reeves, Reeves, Reeves, Rhind, Tabachnick, Vieira   +36 more
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Talent Identification in an English Premiership Rugby Union Academy: Multidisciplinary Characteristics of Selected and Non-selected Male Under-15 Players

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2021
Entry into an academy can be a defining moment for a promising young player. The aim of this study was to explore the multidimensional characteristics that differentiated selected and non-selected male under-15 rugby union players at an English ...
Francesco Dimundo, Francesco Dimundo, Matthew Cole, Richard C. Blagrove, Alexander B. T. McAuley, Kevin Till, Adam L. Kelly   +6 more
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Talent: A contestable, but not contested, concept?

Current Issues in Sport Science, 2021
Our target article on ‘Innate talent’ had two objectives, first to acknowledge the 20th anniversary of the seminal contribution by Howe, Davidson and Sloboda (1998) and second, to update this information as it relates to talent in the domain of sport ...
Joseph Baker, Nick Wattie
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Excellence fulfilled? On the unique developmental needs of professional athletes

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023
While the term “athlete development” has been used to capture the changes (physical, psychological, etc.) that occur as an athlete moves from initial sport engagement to elite performance, much of the research in this area has focused on earlier stages ...
Joseph Baker, Kathryn Johnston, Harjiv Singh, Lou Farah, Dale Lablans   +4 more
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Perfectionism and burnout in junior athletes: A three-month longitudinal study [PDF]

, 2015
Perfectionism in sports has been shown to be associated with burnout in athletes. Whether perfectionism predicts longitudinal changes in athlete burnout, however, is still unclear.
Madigan, Daniel J., Passfield, Louis, Stoeber, Joachim   +2 more
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Exercise Heat Acclimation With Dehydration Does Not Affect Vascular and Cardiac Volumes or Systemic Hemodynamics During Endurance Exercise

Frontiers in Physiology, 2021
Permissive dehydration during exercise heat acclimation (HA) may enhance hematological and cardiovascular adaptations and thus acute responses to prolonged exercise. However, the independent role of permissive dehydration on vascular and cardiac volumes,
Gavin Travers, Gavin Travers, José González-Alonso, José González-Alonso, Nathan Riding, David Nichols, Anthony Shaw, Julien D. Périard, Julien D. Périard   +8 more
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Developmental contexts and features of elite academy football players: Coach and player perspectives [PDF]

, 2014
Player profiling can reap many benefits; through reflective coach-athlete dialogue that produces a profile the athlete has a raised awareness of their own development, while the coach has an opportunity to understand the athlete's viewpoint.
Abbott A., Abernethy B., Anderson C. B., Bailey R., Baker J., Bakirtzoglou P., Balyi I., Beech B., Brustad R. J., Butler R. J., Cropley A.J., Haskins D., Holt N. L., Hsu C.C., Jones G., Kelly G.A., Larsen C. H., Linstone H. A., Morley D., Morley D., Nicholls A., Oliver E.J., Penney D., Simmons C., Simonton D.K., Strachan L., Toering T.T., Wylleman P.   +27 more
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Attachment Styles Within the Coach-Athlete Dyad: Preliminary Investigation and Assessment Development [PDF]

, 2002
The present preliminary study aimed to develop and examine the psychometric properties of a new sport-specific self-report instrument designed to assess athletes’ and coaches’ attachment styles. The development and initial validation comprised three main
Armsden G.C., Bäckström M., Carr S., Carr S., Collins N.L., Davidovitz R., Davis L., Forrest K.A., Gill D.L., Harlow H.F., Hazan C., Hoffmann R., Hu L., Jowett S., Jowett S., Jowett S., Li F., Lorimer R., Poczwardowski A., Ravitz P., Rhind D.J.A., Rhodes S.D., Rusbult C.E., Simpson J.A., Smoll F.J., Smoll F.J., Vealey R.S., West W., Wilkinson R.B.   +28 more
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Passive Heating: Reviewing Practical Heat Acclimation Strategies for Endurance Athletes

Frontiers in Physiology, 2018
Heat acclimation protocols—both active and passive—have been employed by athletes in an effort to attenuate the detrimental effects of heat stress on physical capacities and sports performance.
Storme L. Heathcote, Storme L. Heathcote, Peter Hassmén, Shi Zhou, Christopher J. Stevens, Christopher J. Stevens   +5 more
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