Elite female soccer players’ dual career plans and the demands they encounter

Harrison, Grace; Vickers, Emma; Fletcher, David; Taylor, Guy

doi:10.1080/10413200.2020.1716871

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“…Although this study limited to one sport, football, it made a point that the junior athletes in their study tended to believe that DC pathways made success in either area harder to achieve. In line with this, Harrison, et al (2020) found out that DC difficulties were increased when the junior athletes' level of education increased (i.e., from school to university and from university to vocation). In the case of Slovakia, it was found that junior athletes might develop a negative attitude towards their DC by their educational institutions (Geraniosova &Ronkainen, 2015).…”

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Dual career of junior athletes: Identifying challenges, available resources, and roles of social support providers (Carrera dual de deportistas junior: identificando retos, recursos disponibles, y roles de apoyo social)

López-Flores¹,

Hong²,

Botwina³

2021

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Balancing between two different commitments, sport and education, has been demonstrated as one of the significant challenges for dual career athletes, namely student athletes. Since EU guidelines on dual careers of athletes was published, a number of studies have been conducted on the topic of dual careers. One of the Erasmus+ Sport projects, Dual Career for Junior Athletes (DCJA), has been designed to identify three main aspects regarding the dual career of junior athletes, aged between 15 and 19-year-old: the barriers and challenges, resources and skills, and the roles and views of the support staff of the student-athletes. Applying a two-fold methodology based on the literature and the EU funded projects reviews, the findings show that there is a clear need of further research on the topic of dual career focused on the junior athletes’ needs, coping strategies development, and general aspects of their life. The findings in this study will inform following studies of DCJA project to fill the research gaps identified. === El equilibrio entre dos compromisos diferentes, el deporte y la educación, ha sido evidenciado como uno de los desafíos importantes para los deportistas de carrera dual, denominados estudiantes-deportistas. Desde que se publicaron las directrices de la UE sobre la carrera dual de los deportistas, se han realizado una serie de investigaciones sobre el topic de la carrera dual. Uno de los proyectos Erasmus + Sport, Dual Career for Junior Athletes (DCJA) ha sido diseñado para identificar tres aspectos relativos a la Carrera Dual del deportista junior, comprendidos entre 15-19 años: las barreras y retos, los recursos y habilidades, y los roles y puntos de vista del personal de apoyo de los estudiantes-deportistas. Mediante una metodología de investigación doble, basada en la revisión de la literatura y de los proyectos financiados a nivel europeo, se obtuvieron hallazgos que muestran que existe una clara necesidad de más investigación en el tema de la carrera dual centrada en las necesidades, desarrollo de capacidades de afrontamiento y aspectos generales de la vida de los deportistas junior. Los hallazgos de este estudio sentarán la base para los siguientes estudios del proyecto DCJA para solventar los vacíos de investigación identificados.

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Section: Barriers and Challenges For Junior Athletes With DCmentioning

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Dual career of junior athletes: Identifying challenges, available resources, and roles of social support providers (Carrera dual de deportistas junior: identificando retos, recursos disponibles, y roles de apoyo social)

López-Flores¹,

Hong²,

Botwina³

2021

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“…There was substantial variation in the SAMSAQ-PT dimension scores by sex, university type, and sport level. The observed substantial gender-related variation in SM and CM could be due to lower dual career support for Brazilian female athletes and limited economic opportunities for top-level women's sport (Harrison et al, 2020). Coherently, during the academic path, the highest effect scores for AM emerged for female student-athletes, who might emphasize more their academic career concerning their sports career (Tekavc, Wylleman & Cecić-Erpič, 2015).…”

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Validity and usefulness of the student-athletes’ motivation toward sport and academics questionnaire: a Bayesian multilevel approach

Quinaud

Gonçalves

Possamai

et al. 2021

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Background Reliable assessment and understanding of student-athletes’ motivation for dual careers are crucial to support their career development and transitions. The purpose of this research was to examine the validity and usefulness of the student-athletes’ motivation toward sport and academics questionnaire (SAMSAQ-PT) in the Brazilian higher education context. Four studies were performed. Methods In study one, conceptually and semantic translation of the questionnaire and Bayesian exploratory factor analysis were conducted. In study two, a Bayesian confirmatory factor analysis with an independent sample was performed. In study three, Bayesian multilevel modeling was applied to examine the construct validity of the questionnaire in a cross-sectional sample. In study four, the SAMSAQ-PT sensitiveness was examined in a longitudinal sample, and the results were interpreted based on multilevel regression and poststratification. Results Altogether the results provided evidence validity and usefulness of the SAMSAQ-PT in Brazilian student-athletes. The Brazilian student-athletes’ motivation scores were sensitive to the influence of sex, sport level, and type of university on career and sport motivation. SAMSAQ-PT estimate scores across an academic year showed a trend of stability in the scores, adjusting for sex, sport level, type of university, and student-athlete status. Conclusion The SAMSAQ-PT proved to be a robust and valuable questionnaire, which could be used in Portuguese-speaking countries. The findings of the cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys urge to consider individual and contextual characteristics when investigating motivation of dual-career of athletes, also concerning the sex-related opportunities in university sports. Furthermore, there is a need for a call for action to promote and nurture the student-athletes motivation to remain engaged in both sports and educational commitments.

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“…It appears that young sporting women are often more committed to combining sporting and educational goals and identities than are sporting men. Despite the growing professionalisation of women’s football (soccer) in Britain, many young players also invest in academic excellence (Harrison et al, 2020). In this latter study, one female participant explained: ‘I wanted to do really well in uni, I didn’t want to go there and just pass, you know I still want a first.…”

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“…In this latter study, one female participant explained: ‘I wanted to do really well in uni, I didn’t want to go there and just pass, you know I still want a first. And then again with soccer, I want to do the best that I can’ (Harrison et al, 2020: 16). Despite the growth of women’s sport, however, there remains a staggering structural inequality of opportunity that limits women’s social agency in developing a professional athletic career.…”

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Superwomen? Young sporting women, temporality and learning not to be perfect

Ronkainen

Allen‐Collinson

Aggerholm

et al. 2020

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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New forms of neoliberal femininity create demanding horizons of expectation for young women. For talented athletes, these pressures are intensified by the establishment of dual-career discourses that construct the combination of high-performance sport and education as a normative, ‘ideal’ pathway. The pressed time perspective inherent in dual-careers requires athletes to employ a variety of time-related skills, especially for young women who aim to live up to ‘superwoman’ ideals that valorise ‘success’ in all walks of life. Drawing on existential phenomenology, and in-depth interviews with 10 talented Finnish sportswomen (aged 19–22), we explored their experiences of lived time when pursuing dual-careers in upper secondary sport schools. Exploring participants’ bodily experiences of inhabiting the achievement life-world, we analyse how these sportswomen either learned ways of living up to this ambitious script or came to understand the detrimental effects of the script, necessitating other ways of being. For those who experience a disjuncture between the ‘perfect’ and their embodied experience, self-care practices are needed to restore life-world harmony, and orient to alternative futures.

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Elite female soccer players’ dual career plans and the demands they encounter

Cited by 43 publications

References 29 publications

Dual career of junior athletes: Identifying challenges, available resources, and roles of social support providers (Carrera dual de deportistas junior: identificando retos, recursos disponibles, y roles de apoyo social)

Dual career of junior athletes: Identifying challenges, available resources, and roles of social support providers (Carrera dual de deportistas junior: identificando retos, recursos disponibles, y roles de apoyo social)

Validity and usefulness of the student-athletes’ motivation toward sport and academics questionnaire: a Bayesian multilevel approach

Superwomen? Young sporting women, temporality and learning not to be perfect

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