Although social support is integral to the coaching process, there is only a limited understanding of the antecedents of perceived coach support. We applied generalizability theory to examine perceived coach support and its antecedents at perceiver, provider, and relational levels of analysis. Two studies were conducted in which athletes rated the degree to which they identified with a selectio...

Coach education programs in Canada and abroad have recently been framed around Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD), a seven-stage model that is based on the physical, mental, emotional, and cognitive development of children and adolescents. To date, limited empirical research on LTAD exists. The primary objective of this study was to identify whether individuals who completed a coach education...

Previously published studies have found that concussion symptoms are underreported in youth athletics. This study evaluated the likelihood high school soccer players would identify themselves as having concussion related symptoms during game situations. A questionnaire inquiring about past concussion education and the likelihood of notifying their coach of concussion symptoms was administered t...

Chantal Vallée is the head coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of Windsor in Canada. She holds a master’s degree in sport psychology with a focus on building successful programs. She has received 12 conference and 2 national coach of the year awards, produced 4 national team members, and has won 5 national titles. In her last seven seasons, she has maintained a 93% winning pe...

Postings in the discussion forum hold a rich database of reusable resources. The discussion forum has often been used for discussion but rarely as a coach. This paper presents an implementation of the discussion forum as a secondary coach in a collaborative, active learning environment, its benefits to the students and the teachers, and anticipated problems that may arise from the implementatio...

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This article describes the coaching strategies of NESTORE e-coach, a virtual coach for promoting healthier lifestyles in older age. The novelty project is definition multi-domain personalized pathway where e-coach accompanies user throughout different structured and non-structured activities recommendations. also presents design process strategies, carried out including adults from four Europea...

It is increasingly common to introduce agile coaches help gain speed and advantage in companies. Following the success of Spotify, role coach has branched out terms tasks responsibilities, but little research been conducted examine how this practiced. This paper examines through 19 semi-structured interviews with from ten different We describe projects, valuable traits, skills, tools, enablers ...

The purpose of this investigation was to examine whether the relationships between contextual factors and basic psychological needs were related to antisocial and prosocial behavior in sport. A two-study project employing Bayesian path analysis was conducted with competitive athletes (Study 1, n = 291; Study 2, n = 272). Coach and teammate autonomy-supportive climates had meaningful direct rela...

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of the Music Coach application that runs on the Nokia N900 mobile phone platform. The application plays the role of a music coach which listens to the user’s musical performance and provides realtime feedback on both timing and pitch accuracy. It also utilizes the accelerometer in the mobile phone to detect and update tempo set by the mus...