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Leading, Coaching, & Mentoring: A Study Of Coach-Athlete Relationships As Associated Factors In Performance, Katie D. Kamachi

Theses and Dissertations

This research focused on global leadership and change and competitive athletics. Servant leadership, including the five servant leadership variables; altruistic calling, emotional healing, wisdom, persuasive mapping, and organizational stewardship, as well coach athlete relationships, including the three coach-athlete relationship variables; closeness, commitment, and complementarity, were used to analyze athlete perceptions. This study then found correlations of the associated factors to outcome, at team and individual levels. Findings from this study include recognizing the commitment of the head coach as a factor in team mins; individual athlete perception of closeness as related to games started; the emotional healing aspects from the …