The Sport Psychology Program of the USA Women’s National Volleyball Team

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 330-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Gipson ◽  
Thom McKenzie ◽  
Steve Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Fund Raising ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Management Consultation ◽  
Player Skill ◽  
Player Performance

This paper focuses on our work as a performance-enhancement team of three providing services to the USA Women’s National Volleyball Team. We direct our efforts to both coaches and players to achieve systemic, self-sustaining improvements in team performance, with a secondary emphasis on services to individuals. To accomplish these goals we have provided seven primary services: (a) measurement of player and coach behavior, (b) improvement of player skill development activities, (c) enhancement of player performance, (d) enhancement of coach performance, (e) planning and management consultation, and (f) fund raising. We have received exemplary support for and cooperation with our efforts from coaches as well as players and have observed substantial desired changes in player and coach performance over the 1988 quadrennium.

Evaluating Sport Psychology Service Delivery for Elite USA Track and Field Athletes: Findings and Recommendations

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Lennie Waite ◽  
Chris Stanley ◽  
Brian Zuleger ◽  
Anne Shadle
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Common Core ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
Delivery Mode ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Psychology Service ◽  
Managing Stress ◽  
And Training

In preparation for the 2020–2024 Olympic cycle, members of the USA Track and Field sport psychology (SP) subcommittee investigated the SP service provision needs and preferences of 88 elite Olympic-level athletes. A mixed-methods needs analysis was employed, which consisted of surveys, interviews, and a focus group, to help understand current SP usage and shape future SP services for USA Track and Field. Findings highlighted a lack of knowledge and exposure to SP services and a desire for increased contact with SP professionals among athletes, exposing gaps and room for improvement in service delivery. Athletes cited flexibility in terms of service delivery mode and shared common core preferences for mental training, including help managing stress, pressure, emotions, and other challenges of competition and training. The results are discussed in relation to strengthening the effectiveness of service provision through increasing visibility, accessibility, and education regarding the benefits of SP services.

LAX-Score

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Woosub Jung ◽  
Amanda Watson ◽  
Scott Kuehn ◽  
Erik Korem ◽  
Ken Koltermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ncaa Division I ◽  
Athletic Performance ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Division I ◽  
Sports Science ◽  
Player Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Game Performance

For the past several decades, machine learning has played an important role in sports science with regard to player performance and result prediction. However, it is still challenging to quantify team-level game performance because there is no strong ground truth. Thus, a team cannot receive feedback in a standardized way. The aim of this study was twofold. First, we designed a metric called LAX-Score to quantify a collegiate lacrosse team's athletic performance. Next, we explored the relationship between our proposed metric and practice sensing features for performance enhancement. To derive the metric, we utilized feature selection and weighted regression. Then, the proposed metric was statistically validated on over 700 games from the last three seasons of NCAA Division I women's lacrosse. We also explored our biometric sensing dataset obtained from a collegiate team's athletes over the course of a season. We then identified the practice features that are most correlated with high-performance games. Our results indicate that LAX-Score provides insight into athletic performance beyond wins and losses. Moreover, though COVID-19 has stalled implementation, the collegiate team studied applied our feature outcomes to their practices, and the initial results look promising with regard to better performance.

Systematically Reviewing the Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Enhanced Athletic Performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Sappington ◽  
Kathryn Longshore
Keyword(s):  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Sport Performance ◽  
The Body ◽  
Psychological Skills ◽  
Psychological Skills Training ◽  
Quality Of Research

The field of applied sport psychology has traditionally grounded its performance enhancement techniques in the cognitive-behavioral elements of psychological skills training. These interventions typically advocate for controlling one’s cognitive and emotional processes during performance. Mindfulness-based approaches, on the other hand, have recently been introduced and employed more frequently in an effort to encourage athletes to adopt a nonjudgmental acceptance of all thoughts and emotions. Like many applied interventions in sport psychology, however, the body of literature supporting the efficacy of mindfulness-based approaches for performance enhancement is limited, and few efforts have been made to draw evidence-based conclusions from the existing research. The current paper had the purpose of systematically reviewing research on mindfulness-based interventions with athletes to assess (a) the efficacy of these approaches in enhancing sport performance and (b) the methodological quality of research conducted thus far. A comprehensive search of relevant databases, including peer-reviewed and gray literature, yielded 19 total trials (six case studies, two qualitative studies, seven nonrandomized trials, and four randomized trials) in accordance with the inclusion criteria. An assessment tool was used to score studies on the quality of research methodology. While a review of this literature yielded preliminary support for the efficacy of mindfulness-based performance enhancement strategies, the body of research also shows a need for more methodologically rigorous trials.

Athlete Characteristics and Team Competitive Performance as Moderators for the Relationship Between Coach Transformational Leadership and Athlete Performance

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai C. Bormann ◽  
Paul Schulte-Coerne ◽  
Mathias Diebig ◽  
Jens Rowold
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Intellectual Stimulation ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Competitive Performance ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
Source Sample ◽  
Main Effects ◽  
Player Performance

The goal of this study is to examine the effects of coaches’ transformational leadership on player performance. To advance existing research, we examine (a) effects on individual and team performance and (b) consider joint moderating effects of players’ win orientation and teams’ competitive performance on the leadership– individual performance link. In a three-source sample from German handball teams, we collected data on 336 players and 30 coaches and teams. Results showed positive main effects of transformational leadership’s facet of articulating a vision (AV) on team and individual performance and negative main effects of providing an appropriate model (PAM) on team performance. With regard to moderating effects, AV increased and PAM decreased individual performance when both moderators were low, and intellectual stimulation had a positive effect when both were high. This study expands insights into the potential and limitation of transformational leadership with a strong focus on the role of situational contingencies.

Performance Enhancement for Ballroom Dancers: Psychological Perspectives

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patsy Tremayne ◽  
Debra A. Ballinger
Keyword(s):  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Psychological Skills ◽  
Mental Preparation ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
Ballroom Dance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Insight Into

Ballroom dance has resurfaced worldwide as a highly popular competitive sport and might be added to Olympic medal competition for the 2012 London Games. This resurgence presents opportunities for sport psychologists to provide psychological-skills and performance-enhancement training for ballroom dancers at all competitive levels. Few sport psychologists have the personal experience, expertise, or an adequate knowledge base about the competitive-ballroom-dance environment to provide meaningful intervention strategies for participants. This article was developed to provide initial guidance for sport psychology professionals interested in working in this environment. An overview of the competitive-dance and ballroom-dance environment, strategies used by dance couples for enhanced mental preparation before and during dance competitions, and excerpts from an interview with an Australian championship-level couple provide readers insight into performance-enhancement strategies for DanceSport.

Thrown to the Wolves: A Student’s Account of Her Practicum Experience

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Tonn ◽  
Robert J. Harmison
Keyword(s):  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Junior College ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Initial Training ◽  
Women's Basketball ◽  
Psychology Service ◽  
Practicum Experience

This article provides an account of a trainee’s initial sport psychology practicum experience. Experiential knowledge gained by the trainee performance enhancement consultant with a junior college women’s basketball team is shared via a self-narrative in the form of a log she kept during the season and self-reflections. The log entries and self-reflections are organized around several themes that emerged over the course of the trainee’s practicum. The narrative outlines the trainee’s theoretical orientation and philosophy, highlights her experiences with the team, and reveals her thought processes related to the various situations she encountered. A better understanding of the process of sport psychology service delivery by a trainee is offered to guide other aspiring professionals during their initial training experiences.

Supervision in the Education and Training of Sport Psychology Service Providers

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark B. Andersen ◽  
Brian T. Williams-Rice
Keyword(s):  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Course Work ◽  
Transference And Countertransference ◽  
Psychology Service ◽  
Collegial Supervision ◽  
Clinical And Counseling Psychology ◽  
Psychology Literature ◽  
Applied Sport Psychology

Supervision plays a central role in the training of sport psychologists, but little discussion of what constitutes adequate supervision of trainees and practitioners is available in the applied sport psychology literature. Broader issues of supervision, such as the training of students to become supervisors, metasupervision, and career-long collegial supervision are rarely discussed. This paper will present models of general supervision processes from training the neophyte to collegial supervision, derived primarily from clinical and counseling psychology. Included are supervising the delivery of performance-enhancement services, identifying trainee and client needs, helping the student understand transference and countertransference phenomena, and suggestions for examining the relationship between the supervisor and the supervisee. Suggestions for improving supervision include course work and/or practica in supervision processes for applied sport psychology graduate programs along with continuing education workshops at sport psychology conferences.

scholarly journals Az innovatív kis- és középvállalkozások finanszírozása kockázati tőkével

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
Judit Glavanits
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Fund Raising ◽  
Market Size ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Venture Capital Fund ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Capital Financing ◽  
Closing The Gap

Closing the gap between the USA and EU venture capital market size is crutial for european innovative small and medium sized companies. As the financial crises started in 2008 weekend the possibilities for external capital, the role of venture capital financing is revaluated. The study analyses the similarities and differences in the legal rules of venture capital fund raising and financing revised by the USA's Dodd-Frank Act, and the European AIMF-directive. The study also suggest the changes in connection with the European Commission's prepared document on the European Venture Capital Fund, and it's effects on the innovative small-and medium sized companies. The conclusion is that the new rules of venture financing both in the USA and Europe sets up significantly more administrative difficulties for funds, but more stability and safe for entrepreneurs.

scholarly journals Mindfulness y rendimiento deportivo

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Israel Mañas ◽  
Jesús Del Águila ◽  
Clemente Franco ◽  
Mª Dolores Gil ◽  
Consolación Gil
Keyword(s):  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Sport Performance ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Cognitive Behavioural ◽  
Bodily Sensations ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Cognitive Behavioural Interventions

Resumen: La inclusión del mindfulness en el deporte es un campo reciente. Mientras que la psicología del deporte ha dependido principalmente de la “segunda ola” de intervenciones cognitivo-conductuales durante las últimas cuatro décadas, una nueva aproximación que incluye al mindfulness se ha desarrollado recientemente: la “tercera ola”. Esta nueva aproximación asume la idea de que el rendimiento es un estado que no se basa en el auto-control o cambio del comportamiento, sino que es un estado que emerge del reconcomiendo y aceptación de los pensamientos, emociones y sensaciones corporales. La práctica del mindfulness permite aprender a observar y aceptar los pensamientos, emociones y sensaciones corporales sin intentar eliminarlos o modificarlos. Este trabajo revisa los dos principales programas de mindfulness para el rendimiento deportivo, ambos de la “tercera ola”: el Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE) y el Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC). Mindfulness and sport performance Abstract: Mindfulness in sports is a recent field. While sport psychology relied mainly on “second wave” cognitive-behavioural interventions for the last four decades, a new approach has recently been developed in sport psychology including mindfulness: a “third wave” approach. This new approach assumes that ideal performance is a state that is not based on self-control or change in behaviour, but rather a state that arises from recognition and acceptance of thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations. Practicing mindfulness allows learns to observe and accept the thoughts, emotions, and body sensations, without making any attempt to eliminate or modify them. This paper reviews the main programs of mindfulness in sport performance both from the “third wave”: Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE) and Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC).

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