From Pre-Elite to Elite: The Pathway Travelled by Adolescent Golfers

Hayman, Rick; Borkoles, Erika; Taylor, Jamie; Hemmings, Brian; Polman, Remco

doi:10.1260/1747-9541.9.4.959

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“…The environmental and sociological conditions experienced by an elite youth player are important determinants of success (Hayman, Polman, Taylor, Hemmings, & Borkoles, 2011). Tannenbaum (1983) identified these environmental, cultural and sociological factors as being some of "the links between promise and fulfilment" (p. 95).…”

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The influence of date and place of birth on youth player selection to a National Football Association elite development programme

Finnegan

Richardson

Littlewood

et al. 2016

Science and Medicine in Football

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Aim: This study sought to examine whether the place and date of birth of elite youth Irish footballers influences their selection onto the Football Association of Ireland's primary development pathway; 12 regional centres of excellences called the 'Emerging Talent Programme' (ETP). The proposed hypothesis was that players born earlier in the year would be over represented compared to those born later in their age band. A secondary hypothesis was that access to the ETP would be independent of place of birth. Methods: The dates and place of birth of all elite youth footballers (n=1940) selected onto the ETP since its inception were examined. Chi-squared tests were used to establish if the dates of birth differed from the expected population distribution. Odds ratios were used to identify spatial variation in relation to place of birth and talent production. Results: The results showed that admission to the Emerging Talent Programme is not independent of quarter of birth (p<.05, χ 2 = 256.817, w= .388). Place of birth analysis showed an unequal geographical distribution of players gaining selection onto the ETP. Selection onto the ETP was not independent of place of birth (p=<.05, χ 2 = 149.457, w=.278). Footballers developed in counties that had an ETP centre were almost 50% more likely to gain selection than those without a centre (OR 1.455, 95% CI 1.314-1.612). Conclusion: The current programme demonstrates inequitable distribution of opportunities to access elite development pathways due to biases related to date and place of birth.

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confidence: 99%

The influence of date and place of birth on youth player selection to a National Football Association elite development programme

Finnegan

Richardson

Littlewood

et al. 2016

Science and Medicine in Football

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“…Headway has also been made in the broader sporting domain over the last decade (Warriner andLavallee 2008, Sebire et al 2013). Notwithstanding some recent, and highly pertinent, exceptions (see Klockare et al 2011, Tawse et al 2012, Capstick and Trudel 2010, Hayman et al 2014, however, the status of IPA in the specific field of sport coaching remains in a fledgling position. Although the facility of IPA for the study of coaching is a clear proposition here, it is also important to recognise that its flexible approach has been criticised for not being entirely consistent with any particular (pure) phenomenological school or standpoint (Giorgi 2011).…”

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Nurture, nature and some very dubious social skills: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of talent identification practices in elite English youth soccer

Miller

Cronin

Baker

2015

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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Miller, Paul K., Cronin, Colum and Baker, Graham (2015) Nurture, nature and some very dubious social skills: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of talent identification practices in elite English youth soccer. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 7 (5). pp. 642-662.Downloaded from: http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/1766/ Usage of any items from the University of Cumbria's institutional repository 'Insight' must conform to the following fair usage guidelines.Any item and its associated metadata held in the University of Cumbria's institutional repository Insight (unless stated otherwise on the metadata record) may be copied, displayed or performed, and stored in line with the JISC fair dealing guidelines (available here) for educational and not-for-profit activities provided that• the authors, title and full bibliographic details of the item are cited clearly when any part of the work is referred to verbally or in the written form This paper reports qualitative findings regarding the concepts and practices utilised in talent identification (TI) among professional coaches working in English youth soccer. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis, detailed interviews with seven such coaches are explored, with a view to elucidating the links between understanding, practice, experience and professional context. Findings reveal three superordinate themes, relating to (1) a primarily 'nurtured' and trainable understanding of the broad concept of talent itself, (2) an ostensibly contradictory model of semi-static player psychology, and (3) a highly selective mechanism for separating evidence for 'mental strength' and 'social skills'. It is contended that these findings underscore a case for more thorough interrogation of the real worlds inhabited by coaches, such that ideas about 'good practice' in TI might be more effectively reconciled with grounded knowledge of the practical everyday necessities of being a coach.

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“…Identifying such differences could ascertain if particular groups of athletes, such as those with lower oxygen uptake and greater static loading, are more predisposed to poorer sleep patterns, for example. Such information would act as an impetus for coaches to administer appropriate interventions for adolescents, in the form of exercise, in sports that do not traditionally include high-intensity training (Ericsson et al, 1993;Hayman et al, 2011Hayman et al, , 2014 secondary aim was to report new sleep data on high-level Asian adolescent athletes and effects of sleep on daytime sleepiness during a week of training. We hypothesize that Asian adolescent athletes participating in high-intensity sports would have significantly more deep sleep than athletes undertaking lower-intensity sports.…”

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Effects of sports training on sleep characteristics of Asian adolescent athletes

Suppiah

Low²,

Chia

2015

Biological Rhythm Research

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Adolescents are predisposed to poorer quality of sleep and experience shortened sleep durations, with these trends being more pronounced amongst Asians. Even though sleep is crucial for athletic recovery, there is a dearth of literature on the sleep patterns of Asian adolescent athletes. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of different intensities of sports training on sleep patterns in adolescent athletes, and to describe novel sleep data and daytime sleepiness amongst Asian adolescents who were high-level athletes. Those athletes (age 14.8 ± 0.9 years) in higher-intensity sports showed significantly more deep sleep, less light sleep and wake time after sleep onset. Actigraphically determined bedtimes and waketimes were significantly delayed on weekends, when mean total sleep time was also significantly longer. There was a large effect for an increased daytime sleepiness in high-intensity sport athletes. These findings highlight the phenomenon of social jet lag in Asian adolescent student-athletes.

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From Pre-Elite to Elite: The Pathway Travelled by Adolescent Golfers

Cited by 20 publications

References 28 publications

The influence of date and place of birth on youth player selection to a National Football Association elite development programme

The influence of date and place of birth on youth player selection to a National Football Association elite development programme

Nurture, nature and some very dubious social skills: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of talent identification practices in elite English youth soccer

Effects of sports training on sleep characteristics of Asian adolescent athletes

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