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“I know more about what we can’t do than what we can”: Division I Women’s Sports Athletes’ Perceptions of Name, Image, and Likeness
Full text linkThis study investigated women’s sport athletes’ perceptions of their ability to profit off name, image, and likeness (NIL) as current participants in collegiate athletics. Researchers conducted comprehensive semi-structured interviews with eight women’s sport athletes representing four NCAA Division I member institutions. Participants explained how institutionally organized programmatic educational initiatives primarily codified impermissible forms of NIL compensation while often omitting information about permissible NIL opportunities. Furthermore, participants considered themselves minimally involved in the NIL space, feeling on the low to average side of NIL engagement compared to their athlete-peers competing in men’s sports. The findings of this study are informative for scholars, practitioners, and college athletes alike as they consider the systemic differences in institutional support and resource allocation for women’s sport athletes pursuing NIL compensation
Exploring Leadership, Culture, and the Dynamics of Collective Empathy: A Nonprofit Case Study
Full text linkThis case study explores the formation, embedding, and sustainability of collective empathy at [Healing Arts for Children; HAC], a pseudonym for small arts-focused nonprofit serving pediatric patients. The 20-year-old organization utilizes art and music to alleviate anxiety and enhance positive health care experiences for critically and chronically ill children and their families. While the existing literature primarily focuses on individual-level empathy in the workplace, this study focuses on the underexplored aspects of systemlevel empathy applications, which may be essential to determining how empathy forms, embeds, and sustains within an organization. Collective empathy, the shared capacity of organization members to recognize, understand, and respond to both internal and external emotional experiences in coordinated ways, is crucial for organizations serving vulnerable populations as it enhances service quality, staff resilience, and client outcomes. This research contributes to social work practice by examining how collective empathy shapes service delivery and therapeutic relationships in human service organizations. Drawing on established frameworks that examine the emotional demands inherent in social work practice and the role of organizational culture in human services organizations, this study illuminates how organizational factors influence collective empathic practices. The findings suggest that a positive workplace culture stems from mission-aligned employees significantly shaping organizational culture, highlighting the importance of emotional connections and caring communities
State Parties’ Self-Reported Adherence to Article 31’s Right of the Child To Play: A Systematic Content Analysis
Full text linkArticle 31 of the introduction of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) legally protects children’s right to rest, leisure, play, recreation, and cultural and artistic activities. Concerns for the adequate realisation of Article 31 have been longstanding, with the right to play particularly requiring greater attention. This research aims to understand how states are self-reporting right to play observance within the wider context of Article 31 rights. A systematic content analysis was completed with relevant sections of 174 state party reports using Article 31 domains and General Comment 17 factors as an evaluative framework. The framework identified six overarching themes: play-related guidance, play-related legislation, supplemental play guidance, supplemental play legislation, explicit play guidance, and explicit play legislation. Findings explore each theme in relation to the right to play as situated within Article 31, the right to play as defined by General Comment 17, and additional inductive codes. State conceptualisations and implementation of children’s right to play are discussed in addition to state reporting implications
#RookieParty: The Intersections of Social Media, Hazing, and Canadian Varsity Sport
Full text linkPrior to the start of the pandemic in 2020, almost two-thirds of all varsity athletes across gender and sport in Canada had engaged in a sport hazing ritual (Johnson et al., 2018). While hazing in sport has been researched from a variety of perspectives, few studies have examined hazing in the context of varsity athletes\u27 social media use. This is a potential space where Johnson (2017) suggested that technological tools such as cellphones, that provide instant access to social media, have enabled users to more easily capture and post online, potentially exacerbating the trauma inflicted on rookies during team hazing events. This qualitative study engaged semi-structured interviews to examine the intersections of hazing and social media Canadian varsity athletes. The results describe the use of social media by athletes within the context of their sport and their particular team and its relationship to their continued team hazing practices. It also offers a gender-based comparison of the ways in which athletes interpreted both formal and informal messaging they received from their athletic departments and teams about hazing and/or social media. The key determinants for the athletes\u27 use of social media in sport were using their social media platform(s) as a team-focused promotion tool, a communication tool, and a motivator for rivalry. Differences emerged as men athletes used social media for recruitment, mentorship and as a sport promotional tool. With respect to using social media for hazing communications, the women athletes were primarily concerned with protecting their teammates’ well-being and ensuring the goal of hazing on their team was centered on creating stronger bonds, while men engaged in clandestine and self-protecting social media messaging
Feel For The Water : What Is It, Really?
Full text linkThe phrase, \u27feel for the water,\u27 is commonly used. But what does it really mean? The traditional idea of this \u27feel\u27 focuses on the sensation of touch and use of the hands to produce propulsion. But what about water resistance? Mastering a feel for how to reduce resistance is equally important as the unique relationship between aquatic propulsion and resistance is of great importance. While being in the water, the effects of gravity and buoyancy also need to be perceived by the learner and taught by the instructor. Reflection on the effects on propulsion-resistance and gravity-buoyancy requires relevant exercises to achieve our goals whatever they might be. Different goals imply different approaches. Sometimes the aim is to reduce resistance in the water; sometimes to increase it. And why should the focus be on the hands only, while the feet are also very important? Understanding how multiple senses and body parts are involved in pursuing the aquatic teaching-learning process or ‘odyssey’ is the goal of this contribution
The Athletic Trainer\u27s Responsibility in Disability Exercise Adherence
Full text linkOBJECTIVEThis study examined exercise adherence to aerobic and strength training exercise guidelines in individuals with disabilities, highlighting the implications for athletic training (AT). Because disabilities impact over 25% of the U.S. population1, an understanding of the varied exercise adherence patterns can inform inclusive AT best practices and assist in promoting exercise and sport participation
Kinematic Analysis of Lower Extremity Movement Patterns During Functional Tests in Collegiate Track and Field Runners to Predict Injury Incidence
Full text linkOBJECTIVE Lower extremity overuse injuries are becoming increasingly more prevalent in endurance-based running sports1,2,3,4,5,6. These injuries negatively impact an athlete’s sports performance and increase the risk of additional injuries3,4. The purpose of this study was to first examine kinematic and kinetic variables within distance runners and compare those with previous lower extremity injuries to those without reported injuries; and second to understand if such variables predicted future injuries sustained throughout a track season
Healing in Relation: Honoring Post-Graduate Grief as an Opportunity for Relational Scholarship
Full text linkThis paper is a three-way conversation about grief that follows a graduate program. We explore our experiences with post-graduate grief in community, attending to each other’s sense of loss following separation from supervisors, theses, and graduate programs. In committing to slow scholarship, processes—such as navigating feelings and living—have been valued over producing a manuscript quickly. Slowness, including long gaps between meetings, enabled us to follow the diverse contours of quiet alchemical processes such as grieving, opening up to emptiness, self-acceptance, being enough, and letting go. After years of compression and dialogic friction with her mentor, Tanya confronts feelings akin to postpartum depression, an anticlimactic melancholy accompanying the completion of her doctorate. Chris is haunted by his inability to recognize the authenticity of repeated invitations from his committee to engage following his Master’s degree, finally breaking his 16-year silence through narrative inquiry into losing what he never knew he had. Anna admits to filling emotional and intellectual gaps following her Master’s degree by pursuing her doctorate. She honors wholeness of herself that encompasses ruptures of grief, confusion, and her journey towards self-acceptance. Emerging from our collaboration is something entirely unexpected: healing. We share our private experiences of post-graduate mourning and re-emergence as an invitation to students to honor what comes unbidden following a graduate journey and an opportunity for relational scholarship
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