Parents, girls’ and Australian football: a constructivist grounded theory for attracting and retaining participation

Elliott, Sam; Bevan, Nadia; Litchfield, Catherine

doi:10.1080/2159676x.2019.1602560

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“…In addition to coaches, sporting clubs at large may need to find ways to attract young people’s interest and time. One strategy might involve a consideration of Elliott, Bevan and Litchfield’s [ 56 ] grounded theory for attracting youth sport participants. Although the grounded theory was derived from focus groups with female youth footballers, the theory provides an important foundation for sporting clubs to inform decisions about re-engaging young people and volunteers into sport.…”

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Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on youth sport in Australia and consequences for future participation and retention

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Background COVID-19 continues to represent the single biggest challenge to contemporary community sport globally. Compliance with social distancing policies, strict return-to-play protocols, and COVID-19 specific training has, perhaps, forever changed the way that children and young people engage in organised sport. Within this context, and while many children and families seek to re-engage with community sport, we (researchers and sport practitioners) have an obligation to ask questions about how the pandemic has impacted youth sport, understand the short- and long-term consequences, and explore what (if any) opportunities can be seized to assist and improve future participation and retention. The aim of this paper was to present an in-depth exploration of the impact of COVID-19 on youth sport in South Australia. Methods Within an interpretive descriptive methodology, this qualitative investigation draws on rich, individual interview and focus group data with 39 youth (ages 15–18), parents, coaches, and sport administrators. A reflexive thematic analysis was undertaken, leading to the development of four substantive themes. Results We conceptualised the ‘4 Rs’ to advance theoretical understandings about the pandemic’s impact on youth sport, including the themes ‘recognising struggle’, ‘reconnection’, ‘re-engaging after restrictions, and ‘reimagining sport’. The themes captured insights about a decline in mental wellbeing and physical activity, an increase in family connectedness, the challenge for sports to attract volunteers and participants back into sport, and the opportunities to reset values and philosophies underpinning the provision of youth sport. Conclusion The findings provide valuable insight into the youth sport setting as a result of the global pandemic and suggest that families, sporting clubs and sporting organisations require additional resources and tools (for example, support for parents to facilitate their children’s training at home during lockdown) to aid recovery efforts and to ensure the survival and prosperity of youth sport into the future.

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“…Competition is a dynamic and complex formative environment if it is accurately conducted at early training stages because of its multidimensional effect on many factors (Schmidhofer et al, 2014;Bayer et al, 2017;Krause et al, 2019). In recent years, there has been an increasing amount of literature about the research topic in the following sports: (a) tennis (Bayer et al, 2017;Fitzpatrick et al, 2017;Limpens et al, 2018); (b) basketball (Ortega et al, 2015); (c) soccer (Casal et al, 2017;Ortega-Toro et al, 2018); (d) handball ; (e) cricket (Elliott et al, 2005;Harwood et al, 2018;Takamido et al, 2019); (f) rugby (Bennett et al, 2016;Morley et al, 2016;Elliott et al, 2019); (g) volleyball (Gillham and Gut, 2012); and (h) flag football (Burton et al, 2011a). Overall, these studies highlight that the need for adapting competition at early training does not provide an integral development of young athletes (Burton et al, 2011b;Ortega et al, 2015;Buszard et al, 2016;Gonçalves et al, 2016;McCarthy et al, 2016).…”

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Effect of Modification Rules in Competition on Technical–Tactical Action in Young Tennis Players (Under-10)

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Adapting competitions to young players' characteristics is an important pillar in the optimal teaching-learning process. The objective of the present study is to analyze the effect of modifying net height (from 0.91 to 0.80 m) and court dimensions (from 23.77 × 8.23 m to 18 × 8.23 m) for under-10 (U-10) tennis players on the following: (a) kinds of technical and tactical basic, situational, and special strokes; (b) tennis players' hitting area; (c) landing location of the serve; (d) ball landing location after the serve; (d) stroke effectiveness; and (e) rally length. The study design was quasiexperimental in nature, observing the fluctuation/change in technical-tactical variables of the tennis players when playing a "Tennis 10s Green Competition" (GC) with the current federative rules and a redesigned competition "Modified Competition" (MC) including altered net height and court dimensions based on small-sided games (SSGs) and equipment scaling. Twenty U-10 tennis players were studied (age of players = 9.46 ± 0.66 years, average weekly training in tennis = 2.90 ± 1.07 h, years of experience = 3.65 ± 1.53 years). The results showed that in MC, there was a greater technical-tactical variability compared with the GC in terms of the following: (a) greater service effectiveness; (b) more situational and special strokes; and (c) a more equitable change in the distribution of hitting and ball landing locations. The values of MC showed that the current adaptation rules and equipment in federated U-10 competitions might not be enough to improve the teaching-learning process under the comprehensive approach. The current competition for U-10 tennis players (stage green) should be redesigned, in order to build an optimal process of affordances to develop a multidimensional positive impact during this training stage.

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“…sports, pain and injury are intimately connected with the game itself, and those that play actively choose to engage in the high levels of physicality and the thrill of exertion. The desire for the physicality of the game and the thrill and roughness that comes with contact sport has been found to be a source of attraction for girls to play Australian rules (Elliott, Bevan and Litchfield, 2019).…”

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“Pretty Disgusted Honestly”: Exploring Fans’ Affective Responses on Facebook to the Modified Rules of Australian Football League Women’s

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Toffoletti

Sanders

2020

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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In this article, we argue that the “turn to affect” can provide a generative framework for working through key sticking points for women in sport. Through an analysis of the rule changes and subsequent social media comments in the lead-up to the inaugural Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) competition, we demonstrate the power of emotions for intensifying and resisting discussion about women’s participation in male-dominated sport, as they accumulate through fan encounters on social media. Through a focus on the expression of emotions such as disappointment and contempt, we interrogate the collective workings of digital affects for constituting gendered knowledge production and subjectivity in sport contexts. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of feminist thinking for sport research and practice.

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Parents, girls’ and Australian football: a constructivist grounded theory for attracting and retaining participation

Cited by 41 publications

References 36 publications

Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on youth sport in Australia and consequences for future participation and retention

Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on youth sport in Australia and consequences for future participation and retention

Effect of Modification Rules in Competition on Technical–Tactical Action in Young Tennis Players (Under-10)

“Pretty Disgusted Honestly”: Exploring Fans’ Affective Responses on Facebook to the Modified Rules of Australian Football League Women’s

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