To become a top athlete requires time, commitment and carefully planned training. Optimum
adaptation to training requires the careful balancing of stress and recovery. The student …

Participation in elite-sport and education is stressful and can result in sacrificed educational
attainment. A dearth of research, however, has explored the specific stressors encountered …

University student-athletes have reported difficulties balancing the rigours of academic
study, athletics, and their personal lives. These challenges may be exacerbated for first-year …

High performance school-age athletes struggle to balance the demands of their sporting and
educational roles. They are like “hyphenated” individuals striving to deal with more than one …

Support for elite student-athletes was explored within a single English university using
Stringer's (1996) Look, Think, Act model of action research. Entry to the ongoing support …

Objectives Increasingly, athletes are expected to undertake tertiary education
contemporaneously with their sporting careers. However, to do so may prove difficult and …

The requirements placed on Olympic and professional athletes in contemporary world sport
are such that they need to dedicate themselves more and more to achieving excellence …

Background: Coaches are central to the development of the expert performer and similarly to
continued lifelong participation in sport. Coaches are uniquely positioned to deliver specific …

Assessing the holistic impact of student-athletes within sport schools is important due to the
increasing popularity of sport school programmes, the likelihood that most youth athletes do …

Sports-friendly and elite sport schools seek to support pupils by providing balanced support
which is intended to facilitate success both in sport and in academic work. This study …