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Excellence fulfilled? On the unique developmental needs of professional athletes
While the term “athlete development” has been used to capture the changes (physical, psychological, etc.) that occur as an athlete moves from initial sport engagement to elite performance, much of the research in this area has focused on earlier stages of the pathway, with very little work examining...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10166876/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37181253 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2023.1164508 |
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author | Baker, Joseph Johnston, Kathryn Singh, Harjiv Farah, Lou Lablans, Dale |
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description | While the term “athlete development” has been used to capture the changes (physical, psychological, etc.) that occur as an athlete moves from initial sport engagement to elite performance, much of the research in this area has focused on earlier stages of the pathway, with very little work examining the highest levels of sport. Considering a person's bio-psycho-social development continues through adulthood, the limited attention to development for athletes at higher competitive levels is perhaps surprising. In this short article, we highlight several notable discrepancies between different competitive levels (e.g., pre-professional sport and professional sport) in the way development is conceptualized, contextualized, and operationalized. We use available evidence to provide guidance for researchers and practitioners to encourage the delivery of structured developmental programming in professional sport systems to aid with the transitionary period between pre-elite and elite levels, and to help foster career longevity. |
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spelling | pubmed-101668762023-05-10 Excellence fulfilled? On the unique developmental needs of professional athletes Baker, Joseph Johnston, Kathryn Singh, Harjiv Farah, Lou Lablans, Dale Front Sports Act Living Sports and Active Living While the term “athlete development” has been used to capture the changes (physical, psychological, etc.) that occur as an athlete moves from initial sport engagement to elite performance, much of the research in this area has focused on earlier stages of the pathway, with very little work examining the highest levels of sport. Considering a person's bio-psycho-social development continues through adulthood, the limited attention to development for athletes at higher competitive levels is perhaps surprising. In this short article, we highlight several notable discrepancies between different competitive levels (e.g., pre-professional sport and professional sport) in the way development is conceptualized, contextualized, and operationalized. We use available evidence to provide guidance for researchers and practitioners to encourage the delivery of structured developmental programming in professional sport systems to aid with the transitionary period between pre-elite and elite levels, and to help foster career longevity. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10166876/ /pubmed/37181253 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2023.1164508 Text en © 2023 Baker, Johnston, Singh, Farah and Lablans. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Sports and Active Living Baker, Joseph Johnston, Kathryn Singh, Harjiv Farah, Lou Lablans, Dale Excellence fulfilled? On the unique developmental needs of professional athletes |
title | Excellence fulfilled? On the unique developmental needs of professional athletes |
title_full | Excellence fulfilled? On the unique developmental needs of professional athletes |
title_fullStr | Excellence fulfilled? On the unique developmental needs of professional athletes |
title_full_unstemmed | Excellence fulfilled? On the unique developmental needs of professional athletes |
title_short | Excellence fulfilled? On the unique developmental needs of professional athletes |
title_sort | excellence fulfilled? on the unique developmental needs of professional athletes |
topic | Sports and Active Living |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10166876/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37181253 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2023.1164508 |
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