Psychosocial Aspects of Sport Retirement Amongst Collegiate Student-Athletes in the United States

In the last decade, the number of full-time registered dietitians (RDs) serving intercollegiate athletes in the United States has more than quadrupled. However, many student athletes may be at increased risk of nutrition-related problems that impact physical and academic performance, which include inadequate macronutrients, inadequate micronutrients, and excessive macronutrients. This narrative review reports the current literature to date on nutrition-related knowledge in collegiate athletes and the impact of sports RDs on student athletes’ nutrition knowledge and behaviors. To date, only observational and quasi-experimental studies have been published with regard to changes in nutrition knowledge and behaviors in NCAA athletes. While these studies report benefits of the RD as a member of the interdisciplinary student athlete support team, more well-designed randomized control trials are warranted to determine benefits related to health outcomes and sport-specific performance outcomes.

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Mandatory Drug Testing of Student Athletes: A Policy Response to Vernonia School District, 47J v. Acton

Journal of School Leadership ◽

10.1177/105268469700700103 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 50-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Todd A. Demitchell ◽

Thomas Carroll

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

School District ◽

Drug Use ◽

Supreme Court ◽

Drug Testing ◽

Student Athletes ◽

United States Supreme Court ◽

The United States ◽

United States Supreme ◽

Random Drug Testing

The prevalence of drugs on the campuses of our nation's schools is of great concern to parents, educators, and society in general. To combat the rising tide of drug use a school district in Vernonia, Oregon passed a mandatory random drug testing policy which was later upheld by the United States Supreme Court. This research studied the response to this court case by surveying randomly selected superintendents in five geographic regions of the nation. The data sought to ascertain if any policy actions would be taken in response to the United States Supreme Court decision and whether superintendents believe that suspicionless, random drug testing of student athletes is effective in combating drug use in our schools.

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Using Exploratory Data Mining to Identify Academic Risk among College Student-Athletes in the United States

Contemporary Issues in Exploratory Data Mining in the Behavioral Sciences ◽

10.4324/9780203403020-23 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 367-392

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Data Mining ◽

College Student ◽

Student Athletes ◽

The United States ◽

Academic Risk ◽

Exploratory Data ◽

Exploratory Data Mining ◽

College Student Athletes

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The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Academic Success and Athletic Identity in Collegiate Student-Athletes

Journal of Amateur Sport ◽

10.17161/jas.v6i2.10570 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 84-106

Author(s):

Zoe Arnold

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Academic Success ◽

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Student Athletes ◽

Athletic Identity ◽

The United States ◽

Division I ◽

Full Time ◽

Chi Square Analysis ◽

The Impact

Upon entering college in the United States, students are exposed to alcohol and, relatedly, the potentially dangerous experiences and effects that come with consuming alcohol. This is especially true for collegiate student-athletes, who have been found to have the highest consumption rate among student groups on campus. The purpose of the study was to understand the relationship between how student-athletes at a focus university, a Division I member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, experience alcohol consumption, how their consumption affects their academic grade point average (GPA), and how athletic identity plays a role in their experiences. While the research focuses on this one university, the findings are congruent with similar studies which focused on other colleges and/or the American college experience as a whole. Due to the large number of student-athletes in collegiate athletics, understanding and examining the correlation between alcohol consumption and the effect it has on academic success can be beneficial for multiple entities within a college dynamic. Survey data was collected from current student-athletes at a mid-sized Division I college in the Midwestern region of the United States. From this data, chi-square analysis showed that female student-athletes had statistically higher GPA than males, and a substantial sum of overall participants binge-drank during their last drinking occasion, and on both game and non-game days. A majority of respondents identify more with being a full-time athlete than being a full-time student. Results provide validity to past research studies, and allow for understanding to why student-athletes are at a higher risk of binge drinking. Practical implications and limitations are noted. Suggestions for future research include a larger sample from a variety of different universities, and understanding motivations between specific sports for academic success and alcohol consumption. Keywords: alcohol consumption, identity, gender, sport, culture, academics

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Racial Diversity Deficit in College Football: Fixing the Pipeline

Journal of Critical Race Inquiry ◽

10.24908/jcri.v2i2.4631 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Keali'i Troy Kukahiko

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Critical Race Theory ◽

Racial Inequality ◽

Student Athletes ◽

National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽

Racial Diversity ◽

The United States ◽

College Football ◽

Football Coaching ◽

College Coaching

A growing amount of research is being conducted on racial diversity in college football head coaching positions in the United States. However, very little has been conducted on the entry-level positions in college coaching: Graduate Assistants (GAs), Quality Control assistants (QCs) and restricted earnings coaches. These positions represent natural professional trajectories for student-athletes, who constitute the future pool of applicants for college coaching positions. In the United States, the majority of student athletes are nonwhite, but white coaches still dominate the world of college athletics. This paper investigates the pipeline issues that obstruct the matriculation of nonwhite student-athletes and produce what I call the diversity deficit in college football coaching. Existing analyses of empirical data from member institutions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) demonstrate the existence of racial inequality in the profession of coaching. This paper will explain the perpetuation of the diversity deficit by employing Critical Race Theory (CRT) to illustrate how whiteness, color-blindness and tokenism structure college football coaching. The paper then presents new research data that illuminate how power shapes NCAA member institutions and that can aid participants in addressing pipeline issues and the diversity deficit.

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Baseline preseason ImPACT® testing in Mandarin with adolescent student-athletes in the United States

Applied Neuropsychology Child ◽

10.1080/21622965.2021.1881897 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Grant L. Iverson ◽

Justin E. Karr ◽

Yue Hong ◽

Chi-Cheng Yang ◽

Bruce Maxwell ◽

...

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Student Athletes ◽

The United States ◽

Adolescent Student

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Party Strength in the United States: Some Corrections

The Journal of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0022381600041591 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 641-642 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Paul T. David

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Party Strength

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Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100139780 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 53 ◽

pp. 682-683

Author(s):

A. Hakam ◽

J.T. Gau ◽

M.L. Grove ◽

B.A. Evans ◽

M. Shuman ◽

...

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Cell Biology ◽

Tissue Bank ◽

The United States ◽

Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽

Correlative Microscopy ◽

Client Server ◽

Critical Elements ◽

Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

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