The Politics and Policy of Community Sport Coaching

Smith, Andy; Greenough, Kenny; Lovett, Emily

doi:10.4324/9781003159063-1

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“…Moreover, sport coaching is a contextspecific process that occurs in both (pressured) high-performance and (less intense) participation domains (Collins et al, 2022;Côté & Gilbert, 2009). In the U.K., the expansive (community based) coach role within the participation domain, might include collaborating with others (i.e., organisations and professionals); focusing on non-sport outcomes (i.e., social and health inequalities); and delivering government policy (i.e., physical and mental wellbeing; individual, economic, and social development) (Ives et al, 2021;Smith et al, 2021). Historically, stress has been emphasised as a contextualised and transactional process, which implies not all events are equally stressful for all individuals under all circumstances (Wright et al, 2020).…”

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Exploring the Daily Hassles of Neophyte Cycling Coaches

Wood,

Richardson,

Roberts

et al. 2024

International Sport Coaching Journal

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Sport coaching is increasingly acknowledged as a stressful activity, especially for those coaching in community contexts. This highlights the significant need to identify the diverse sources of key stressors. The aim of this research was to explore the recurrent stressors experienced by novice coaches to better inform their coping strategies and reduce the dropout rate caused by stress. The novelty of this research lies in its longitudinal exploration of the daily hassles experienced by community sport coaches within their coaching role. Ontologically and epistemologically positioned within the interpretivist paradigm, we interviewed eight recently qualified cycling coaches over an 18-month period. Reflective thematic analysis developed three themes highlighting sources of stress over time: at the start of their participation, coaches discussed the hassles of accessing facilities and struggling to fit in; toward the end of their participation, coaches discussed feeling isolated. Results from this study can better inform the education and support delivered by national governing bodies of sport across the community and club landscape and increase sport psychology practitioners’ awareness of the daily hassles experienced by coaches.

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