Risk of Chronic Disease and Disability in Former Competitive Collegiate Athletes

Transition Experiences of Former Collegiate Women’s Soccer Athletes

“…The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) annually sponsors organized competitive sport for more than 490,000 athletes (Irick, 2017). College sport participation involves exposure to both short-and long-term benefits (Armstrong & Oomen-Early, 2009;Berg et al, 2015;Weight et al, 2018) and risks to mental, physical, and social health and functioning (e.g., Brooks et al, 2014;Houston et al, 2016;Huang et al, 2007) resulting in differential experiential outcomes for former collegiate athletes ranging from adaptive to maladaptive. Yet, there exists a specific knowledge gap on how the experiences of athlete transition from collegiate sport participation may contribute to differences in post-career outcomes.…”