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Campus Recreation Program Involvement, Athletic Identity, Transitional Loss And Life Satisfaction In Former High School Athletes, Katie E. Helms

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Sports participation can result in strong associations with the athlete role for participants. While strong athletic identity can have positive implications, it can also create vulnerability to emotional difficulty following exit from sport (Brewer, 1993). Exit from sport is inevitable, resulting from a wide range of sources such as injury, aging, de-selection, or not qualifying to participate at a certain skill level. Despite a large proportion of high school students who play sports, there is little opportunity for continuation at the college level. This discrepancy often results in significant transitional loss resulting from exhausted athletic eligibility. The current study examines …

The Diminishing Role Of Women Coaches In Female Athletics: North Dakota As Compared To National Trends, Brett M. Mayer

Culminating Projects in Kinesiology

PROBLEM:

The purpose of this study was to determine whether female coaches of female sports in North Dakota are facing the same downturn in employment as on the national scale, and if so to examine the issues leading to this situation. Specific attention is maid to the four external and four internal barriers identified nationally as leading to a decline in women coaches.

Surveys were distributed to all female coaches of female sports who have coached in North Dakota within the last ten years. The goal of the survey was to evaluate their awareness of the problem and to compare …

Repeated Measures Of Impact Verbal Memory Scores Of Concussed And Non-Concussed Individuals, Deshea Davis Gornowicz

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

This study compared ImPACT verbal memory scores of concussed and non-concussed athletes (n=6). This purpose of this study was to determine stability of verbal memory scores with repeated measures. Stability was determined using the ImPACT normative data for university of men and women published in the ImPACT manual. Based on visual inspection of the data, differences between groups was observed. All concussed participants demonstrated scores that were not stable according to the operational definition. All non-concussed participants were demonstrated stable verbal memory scores.