College Athletes and Their Transitions Out of Sports (Hardcover, New edition)

For most college athletes, the end of their athletic career comes when their college eligibility runs out. While some college athletes will move seamlessly from being a college athlete to a career professional, many others struggle to adjust to life without sports. This book fills a gap in the sport retirement literature and adds to our understanding of what it means to leave sport. Steeped in scholarly literature and narrative inquiry research, the book reveals the complexity of a strong athletic identity developed over years of sport participation. Through narratives of former college athletes readers gain a deeper understanding of the emotions and challenges caused by leaving sports participation behind. The final chapters of the book provide strategies to improve the transition out of sport for college athletes. This book is useful for graduate programs that prepare academic advisors to work with college athletes or sports management programs with a course on intercollegiate athletic environments. The book is also useful reading for counselors, academic advisors, coaches, and parents of athletes at all levels of sport participation.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Donna J. Menke
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	164
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-6868-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General
LSN:	1-4331-6868-5
Barcode:	9781433168680

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