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- Title
Finding a Healthy Balance of Bats and Books within a NCAA Division-II Championship Team: A Case Study Examining the Success on the Field and in the Classroom.
- Authors
Smith, Chase M. L.
- Abstract
Academic clustering can be described as a situation when at least 25% of a collegiate athletic team (i.e., roster) of SAs choose the same major (Fountain & Finley, 2009). There are substantial reasons to believe that student-athletes are selecting academic majors with less commitments through academic clustering which influences a lack of commitment on the part of the SA to academics and career exploration (Foster & Huml, 2017). The purpose of the study is to identify themes disseminated by the investigator pertaining to the potential factors from a head coach's point-of-view influencing academic and athletic success within a collegiate athletic team that shows success on the field and in the classroom. The design of this study is a single case, Intrinsic case study. The investigator implemented techniques and strategies for developing grounded theory as this approach is commonly used concepts of description, conceptual ordering, and theorizing are needed for an investigation (Strauss & Corbin, 1998). Results showed themes that contributed to the healthy balance of academics and athletics for a female NCAA D2 championship team.
- Subjects
NATIONAL Collegiate Athletic Association; VOCATIONAL guidance; COLLEGE teachers
- Publication
Kentucky SHAPE JOURNAL, 2019, Vol 56, Issue 2, p112
- ISSN
1071-2577
- Publication type
Article