Seventy percent of kids drop out of sports before their high school graduation. Only 15% leave because they feel they are not good enough. Almost 70% leave because they were not having fun, or due to problems with the coach. Injuries cause 30% to give up sports. This course is packed full of practical sports science information that provide youth coaches and parents with the practical pediatric sports science insights to successfully retain young athletes and develop their sport potential while avoiding injury and overtraining. We begin by examining the multidimensional nature of coaching, the relevant sport motor performance abilities, the impact of growth and development on motor skills, the gene versus practice controversy, and briefly overview the body structures strengthened through training. Then we explore the athlete's energy supply, where this energy comes from, and how it matures along with the athlete. Finally, we examine the development of strength, power, anaerobic capacity, coordination and flexibility through the life span. The optional text manual for this course is available at: http://www.learnitez.com/HighPerformanceScience/manuals/
Sports Management Faculty Introductions
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The Science of Training Young Athletes
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Dr. Chris BrooksInstructor
Coaching Science Coordinator for USA Track and Field
What I like about the sport management field is its uniqueness.
It's still a business at the end of the day.
It's still money and market driven.
But there are several unique aspects about it that I think really
differentiate it from other typical business industries.
And part of that uniqueness is a simultaneous production and
consumption of the product.
Whether it'd be an actual event.
Whether it'd be sport products.
Maybe something that you're viewing, advertising, playing.
There's really something unique about the ability to both
be a part of the action as well as a consumer of the action.
Another unique aspect would be the identity.
So brand identity that not only organizations and
teams have, maybe even leagues, the products themselves.
There is an identity that consumers feel attached to and
that is something again that brings a unique aspect into sport.
And brings that real love of sports, whether it'd be someone who's participated
in sports, or you're simply just a fan and you feel that connection with players,
and teams, and other types of events that might be taking place within the industry.
So my research encompasses several different areas.
I'd say that one umbrella would be sociocultural issues in sport.
Particularly looking at discrimination with regards to race,
gender, sexual identification,
sexual orientation within the sport industry at all levels of play.
And also at the end includes your athletics level,
I'm concerned with student athlete well being and
there's a number of different areas in which we look at there.
And then in another avenue that I've more recently got into is this area for
development at the youth level, looking at maybe underserved,
under-privileged consumers of sport and their physical literacy and
their ability to participate, understand, and really benefit from sports.
>> I enjoyed the field of sport management for several reasons.
First of all, sport is a very big business and still growing fast.
And create tons of opportunities for students and
also scholars and practitioner industry leaders.
Is still young feared?
So I see you now, great future potential to grow.
We are producing and offering good products.
Sport is not same product we deliver.
So many positive values and educate young people.
They are future of our society, so
they lead healthy community with a positive value.
That is the best part of my job.
So I enjoyed very much, teaching, research, and
offering service.
I'm doing research on sport marketing and sport consumer behavior.
So my overriding goal is to develop a clearer
understanding of sport consumer's decision making process.
So sport consumers, for me Include sport participants,
spectators, and other stakeholders such as media sponsors,
corporate sponsors, and even donors.
So I am conducting research on their perception,
attitude, $12 for products for brands and organizations.
>> I like sport management because it's an exciting,
dynamic, ever evolving field, particularly the legal side of the industry.
We have new issues, controversies, cases, laws,
standards and guidelines everyday that impact the industry.
So there's always something to study and talk about.
My research focuses on the legal aspects of the sport industry.
The root cause of the vast majority of law suites large against sport professionals
stands from a injury and/or death.
Accordingly my research is focused on risk management, safety issues and
injury prevention.
Specifically my students and
I have studied legal issues related to automated external defibrillators,
spinal cord injuries, drowning prevention, lightning safety,
hazing, medical emergency, action planning and most recently concussion safety.
>> What I enjoy about the field of sport management is
the fact that it is centered completely around passion.
People are more passionate about sport
than almost any other aspect of their lives.
And it's a place where this passion is built on human connections and
memories with others.
So as a sport manager, you get to be a part of this.
And another important aspect is that this is a place where
racial barriers have been broken.
People from different backgrounds, different races, ethnicities,
genders, have all come together on one platform.
And all share in the same passion.
So as a sport manager, you get to basically be the person who plays
the largest role, making this happen for people,
whether it's locally, nationally, or internationally.
The focus of my research is consumer behavior.
And what that is, is basically looking at fans' behaviors before,
during and after sporting events.
So essentially what this tells us as sports managers,
is why do people behave the way they behave?
Why do some people love a team, and others are fair-weathered about a team?
And what personality traits, what psychological traits is it about
these people that causes them to absolutely love a sport,
or just kind of, well, if the team's winning, I'll get on the bandwagon and
if they are not winning, I'll jump off the bandwagon.
And it's a fascinating idea of why do people differ so
much and ultimately this is the way people unite.
And so just understanding the platform of what causes people to
be way excited about a team whether they're winning or losing.
Or others if they're losing, they could take it or leave it.
Well everyone knows what it takes to be a fan.
So sport management field of study helps people understand what it takes to
actually manage the game or the event for the fans.
And so this is essentially what is building the platform for
where memories are made, connections are made.
If you think back to your experiences maybe as a young child, maybe even now.
It was probably ways you connected with a mother or a father, maybe an uncle,
maybe a grandfather.
You had connections with your coaches, with your teammates.
And so what the field does and what the study of sport management does,
is give the students the ability to truly understand the inner
workings of what it takes to run a successful sport organization.
>> So for the PAD certification in the athlete development specialization,
I teach three courses,
sport psychology, performance enhancement and athlete development.
And in addition the to courses that I'm teaching, I provide advising services for
students that are seeking to obtain the PAD certificate and/or
the athlete development specialization.
In my research I investigate how individuals' emotion regulation strategies
influenced their ability to perform movement tasks
in highly emotional environments.
So, if you think about a high-level athlete, or even a youth athlete,
they're going to experience quite a bit of emotion
in the high-level competitions that they're involved in.
And so the idea being, can we identify
the best type of emotion regulation strategy for participants to use?
So that they can effectively regulate their emotion but also effectively perform
all the movement tasks that they need to be successful in their sport.
Sports psychology for me is a very exciting field to be involved in
because of the wide range of application that I see.
Has huge impacts on coaches, athletes, their ability to perform,
the basic principles that we investigate in our research, and
the skills what we call psychological skills that have developed out of this
research can be applied across myriad domains including sport management or
the management of sport activities from an organizational standpoint.
So with sports psychology, coaches can learn several things about
how athletes can effectively use goal setting, how the coaches can
utilize basic principles of motivation to get the most out of their athletes.
They can learn some of the principles about motor learning, the most effective
ways to structure practice, to develop skills in their athletes, and to
ultimately for their athletes to develop expertise within their sport domain.
>> To really enjoy most about sport management is that there's a unique
organization of leagues, of recreational sports of communities
that allows specific study of how these organizations interact with one another,
and how that impacts what people do on the field and behind the scenes, as well.
So most recently my research has focused on understanding the behavior of
major league baseball umpires and how different types of social pressures and
institutional pressures impact that behavior.
In particular, I took a look at how major league baseball is training its umpires
to call balls and strikes.
And since about 2007,
umpires have called significantly more strikes and expanded their strike zone.
And this has had pretty large impacts on the league scoring output as a whole.
Now, there's a lot of research on whether or not fans tend to like offense,
but the evidence seems to point to, fans enjoy more offensive games.
And therefore this expanded strike zone has actually decreased the amount of
offense in the game and led to major league baseball maybe rethinking how
they're going to reinforce the accuracy and the type of behavior,
their umpires take on.
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