Athlete leadership in sport teams: Current understanding and future directions

ST Cotterill, K Fransen - … Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Leadership is a fundamental aspect of sports performance, particularly within team sport
environments. Over the past 25 years there has been significant research exploring the role …

Athlete leadership development within teams: Current understanding and future directions

ST Cotterill, TM Loughead, K Fransen - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Leadership has been shown to be a fundamental factor influencing the performance of sport
teams. Within these teams, leadership can be provided by coaches, formal athlete leaders …

Leadership in teams: A functional approach to understanding leadership structures and processes

FP Morgeson, DS DeRue… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
As the use of teams has increased in organizations, research has begun to focus on the role
of leadership in fostering team success. This review sought to summarize this literature and …

Relationships among coach leadership, peer leadership, and adolescent athletes' psychosocial and team outcomes: A test of transformational leadership theory

MS Price, MR Weiss - Journal of applied sport psychology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Transformational leadership theory provided a framework to examine the relationships of
coach and peer leadership with individual and team outcomes among team sport athletes …

The myth of the team captain as principal leader: Extending the athlete leadership classification within sport teams

K Fransen, N Vanbeselaere, B De Cuyper… - Journal of sports …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Although coaches and players recognise the importance of leaders within the team,
research on athlete leadership is sparse. The present study expands knowledge of athlete …

Who takes the lead? Social network analysis as a pioneering tool to investigate shared leadership within sports teams

K Fransen, S Van Puyenbroeck, TM Loughead… - Social networks, 2015 - Elsevier
Leaders do not operate in social vacuums, but are imbedded in a web of interpersonal
relationships with their teammates and coach. The present manuscript is the first to use …

Peer leadership in sport: Relationships among personal characteristics, leader behaviors, and team outcomes

MS Price, MR Weiss - Journal of applied sport psychology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this study was to examine peer leadership in sport using transformational
leadership theory as a framework. We extended research (;) by examining relationships …

The relationship among athlete leadership behaviors and cohesion in team sports

DJE Vincer, TM Loughead - The Sport Psychologist, 2010 - journals.humankinetics.com
This study examined the influence of athlete leadership behaviors on perceptions of team
cohesion. The participants were 312 athletes from 25 varsity and club level teams. Each …

Goal scoring in soccer: a polar coordinate analysis of motor skills used by Lionel Messi

M Castañer, D Barreira, O Camerino… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Soccer research has traditionally focused on technical and tactical aspects of team play, but
few studies have analyzed motor skills in individual actions, such as goal scoring. The …

Understanding the experience of high school sport captains

DK Voelker, D Gould… - The sport …, 2011 - journals.humankinetics.com
The purpose of this study was to gain a thorough understanding of the high school sport
captaincy experience. Thirteen university freshmen (7 males, 6 females) who were high …