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Coaching Strategies to Optimize Team Functioning in High Performance Curling

Jamie Collins and Natalie Durand-Bush

The purpose of this study was to investigate coaching strategies to optimize team functioning in the context of high performance curling. Strategies were elicited from 10 male coaches, 12 women’s teams (N = 49 athletes) and seven men’s teams (N = 29 athletes) competing at an elite level. Over 150 strategies were identified as being essential for functioning effectively as a team and they pertained to the following seven components: (a) individual attributes (e.g., create a player contract), (b) team attributes (e.g., determine and adjust game strategy), (c) the foundational process of communication (e.g., script routines for communication), (d) structural team processes (e.g., determine acceptable behaviour/standards), (e) individual regulation processes (e.g., do self-assessments/check-ins), (f) team regulation processes (e.g., discuss leadership behaviours), and (g) the context (e.g., prepare for the opposition). Implications for coaching interventions are provided.

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Integrating Mental Skills and Strategies Into Youth Sport Training: A Tool for Coaches

Rebecca A. Zakrajsek, E. Earlynn Lauer, and Kimberly J. Bodey

Youth sport has traditionally focused on developing athletes physically, technically, and tactically; however, it is important to consider the purposeful development of mental and emotional sport skills for these competitors. Youth athletes experience various stressors within their sport participation that impact their ability to successfully manage the sport environment. Youth sport coaches have a tremendous influence on their athletes and are in a position to help them develop the necessary skills to effectively confront the stress they experience. In addition, the International Sport Coaching Framework identifies six primary functions of coaches to help “fulfil the core purpose of guiding improvement and development” of youth athletes (International Council for Coaching Excellence, 2013, p. 16). This article outlines the developmental stage considerations for working with youth athletes and a tool coaches can use to integrate mental skills development strategies into sport practices. Utilizing the evidence-based steps within this article fosters a holistic and developmentally appropriate approach to performance enhancement and personal development, as both are important objectives for youth sport coaches.

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Exploring the Higher-Order Cognitive Capacities of Sports Coaches

Andrew Kennedy, Paul E. Dux, and Clifford J. Mallett

sports coaching remains unclear. In this paper, we broadly discuss the advantages of exploring sports coaches’ higher-order cognitive functions, with a particular focus on the capacity for cognitive control. In doing so, we aim to make a case for adopting domain-general or “non

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A Bioenergetic View of Coach Learning and Development

John Stoszkowski and Hans Amato

date: namely, bioenergetics and the impact of energy metabolism. First, we provide an outline of the bioenergetic view, with a focus on energy metabolism and mitochondrial function and the influence they may have on coach learning and development, offering insight into how and why energetic status

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Birds of Different Feathers: Coaches’ Perspectives of Cultural Diversity and Team Dynamics in Professional Sport

Manon Eluère, Luc J. Martin, Michael Godfrey, Clifford J. Mallett, and Jean-Philippe Heuzé

pertaining to the definition of this concept, noting that only 37% of articles provided clear definitions ( Godfrey et al., 2020 ). Consequently, to better explore the implications of cultural diversity as it pertains to team functioning in sport, an important prerequisite is to clearly articulate and define

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Coaches’ Experiences of Morality in English Professional Football Environments: Recommendations for Creating a Moral Atmosphere

Andrew J. Higham, James A. Newman, Joseph A. Stone, and James L. Rumbold

sociomoral context, which in turn shapes the athletes’ moral development ( Boardley & Kavussanu, 2009 ; Peláez et al., 2013 ). A main function of socialization in coaching relates to the imparting of enduring values and an ideology that guides behavior in accordance with given expectations ( Cushion & Jones

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An Exploration of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Assistant Coaches’ Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration

Johannes Raabe, Kim Tolentino, and Tucker Readdy

be a critical need for coach educators and sport psychology practitioners to nurture and maintain optimal psychological functioning among coaches in general—and those who serve in the assistant role and in NCAA Division I in particular—to allow them to experience well-being and perform at a high

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Exploring Interpretations and Implications of Coaches’ Use of Humour in Three National Paralympic Teams

Danielle Alexander-Urquhart, Marte Bentzen, Göran Kenttä, and Gordon A. Bloom

expressed within preexisting social relationships with the capacity to serve a variety of functions ( Robert & Wilbanks, 2012 ; Ronglan & Aggerholm, 2014 ). In sport, humour can be adopted by both coaches and athletes and offer facilitative outcomes within the environment, such as relieving stress in a

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Collegiate Coaches’ Reflective Inquiry Processes to Manage Performance Demands

Martin Dixon and Nicole D. Bolter

Frameworks Coaches’ use of strengths-based reflection to manage performance demands can be explained through Fredrickson’s ( 2001 , 2004 ) broaden-and-build theory of positive emotion. The broaden-and-build theory was developed from evidence that shows positive emotions not only signal optimal functioning

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The Coach Developer as a Learning Designer: An Insight Into the Development of the ICOACHKIDS Massive Open Online Courses

Sergio Lara-Bercial, Gary Hodgson, Pedro Lara-Bercial, Sheelagh Quinn, Declan O’Leary, and Kris Van Der Haegen

does not imply that traditional CD roles are obsolete or that a single CD must be able to fulfil all functions. It does, however, indicate a broadening of the role and a need to upskill the current CD workforce as well as appropriately train the next generation. Traditionally, CDs have been recruited