Running the club for love: challenges for identity, accountability and governance relationships

Renfree, Gillian; Kohe, Geoffery Z.

doi:10.1080/16138171.2019.1623987

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“…A sense of loyalty 59 towards this discipline is the basis of their unwavering commitment. 60 This commitment/passion is partly sparked by the sports institution. 61…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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Is the game lost in advance? Being a high-performance coach and preserving family life

Joncheray

Burlot

Julla-Marcy

2019

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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This article examines how high-performance sport coaches combine their professional and family lives. To address this issue, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 41 French coaches (8 females, 33 males) involved in the preparation of the French teams for the Olympic Games in Rio (2016), Pyeongchang (2018) and/or Tokyo (2020). The results show that all the coaches interviewed are engaged in a passionate relationship with their job. For some coaches, this commitment has an impact on their family life. Three groups of coaches stand out: (i) a majority of coaches who are unable to preserve their family life, (ii) coaches who maintain a distance from their profession and preserve their family life, (iii) coaches who have or have not preserved their family life and who position themselves as actors wishing to do everything possible to preserve the family life of the coaches they supervise. Thus, these results highlight, for some coaches, difficulties in combining professional and family life. For others, family life is a protection for engagement in a passionate profession. These data can provide useful information for sport organizations in charge of coaches.

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“…A sense of loyalty 59 towards this discipline is the basis of their unwavering commitment. 60 This commitment/passion is partly sparked by the sports institution. 61…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is the game lost in advance? Being a high-performance coach and preserving family life

Joncheray

Burlot

Julla-Marcy

2019

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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“…Specifically,and recalling the inherent tensions in spatial practices and in creating spaces of change -there is evident recognition that, in some situations, individuals do not (yet) have the power to advance their education development. Volunteer assertions here also link back to a default position iobserved in community/grassroots sport spaces whereby the organisation is often deemed responsible for everything, and thus easy to blame when things go wrong and/or when there is a lack of resources (e.g., Renfree & Kohe, 2019;Ringuet-Riot et. al., 2014).…”

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Conceptualising landscapes of learning in the United Kingdom’s volunteer football sector

Koutrou

Kohe

2021

Sport, Education and Society

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From grassroots to mega-event level, the sport sector has long-relied on volunteers to function effectively. While the nature of sport volunteering varies, scholars have identified that volunteerism is built around characteristics (e.g., altruism, civic participation, acquisition of social capital, personal and professional development) that draw individuals together and contribute to a sense of community (Eley & Kirk, 2002;Griffiths & Armour, 2014). In providing sites for life-skills training, mentoring, coaching, and/or leadership, volunteer communities in sport are also informal and formal learning environments. Notwithstanding research examining learning opportunities within individual volunteer experiences (Bartle & Craig, 2017; Misener, Doherty & Hamm-Kerwin, 2010), work remains on articulating the ideological, structural and experiential complexities of volunteering as pedagogical terrain.To illuminate some of these educational nuances, this paper interrogates the experiences of a cohort of regional football volunteers in the United Kingdom. Drawing on spatial theory, we utilise a holistic framework comprising thought, production and action space to understand volunteer communities and opportunities for learning therein. We draw data from questionnaires, and focus groups undertaken with volunteers working in one of the UK's largest provinces. We contend that football volunteerism comprises a potentially rich context in which an array of learning opportunities exist that can be nurtured and enacted upon over volunteers' life courses. Educational characteristics of volunteering, or the creation of effective learning communities in the sector are not, however, always guaranteed. Rather, individual and collective investments may be required by both volunteers and supporting organisations. 2Furthering recent criticisms of the wider sport sector, and beyond affording greater appreciation of volunteer learning, we advocate for a rethink of organisation's ethical responsibilities and resourcing vis-à-vis educational duties of care and sustainability.

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“…Collins (2010) also noted that, except for one campaign in the 1980s, Sport England has largely ignored older people in the promotion of sport. Athletics in particular has received substantial funding for elite development (Renfree & Kohe, 2018), but the broader participation base at the club level is declining (Grix, 2009). In contrast, Finland often ranks as a top country in mass sport participation (Van Tuyckom & Scheerder, 2010) and has much smaller participation disparities in terms of age and gender than most other European nations (Hartmann-Tews, 2006).…”

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Coaches' reflections on the meaning and value of Masters athletics

Ronkainen

Ryba

Tonge

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Journal of Aging Studies

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Masters sport is a growing social movement offering the opportunity to participate in competitive sports in later life. Although many studies have explored Masters athletes' experiences, little is known about how other actors in the sport subcultures construct meaning in Masters sport and whether their stories work to support or hinder participation. Our study explored the cultural narrative resources and life scripts surrounding sport and ageing that coaches draw upon in two European countries, England and Finland, where sport policy has put different emphasis on elite sport and sport for all. We analysed interviews from 23 athletics (track and field) coaches (8 women) to understand how they assign meaning and value to Masters sport. The narrative analysis showed that coaches constructed two possible athlete pathways: the elite athlete pathway, followed by disengagement from competitive sport, and the 'second chance' pathway, describing Masters athletics as an option for those who did not succeed in youth. Normative expectations about the life career in athletics, underpinned by the Western life script, also worked to construct Masters athletes as a selfish activity and neglect to 'give back' to the sport. Finnish coaches constructed more nuanced stories about Masters athletics and sport in later life, tapping into sport for all narrative resources that circulate in the Nordic countries. The findings indicate that athletics subculture is a contested space where 'new' discourses of ageing are only slowly starting to challenge the normative life script of sport as a project of youth.

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Running the club for love: challenges for identity, accountability and governance relationships

Cited by 11 publications

References 36 publications

Is the game lost in advance? Being a high-performance coach and preserving family life

Is the game lost in advance? Being a high-performance coach and preserving family life

Conceptualising landscapes of learning in the United Kingdom’s volunteer football sector

Coaches' reflections on the meaning and value of Masters athletics

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