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Lowrey, James – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Esports teams (competitive video gaming organizations) are proliferating at colleges and universities throughout the United States as colleges seek to attract and retain students with diverse sets of interests. While these teams bolster college recruitment efforts, additional research is needed to explore several potential links between the…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Video Games, Competition, Team Sports
Elijah Knight – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Background: Due to the high incidence of running-related injuries (RRIs), there is a need to better understand factors contributing to the prevalence of RRIs in community college (CC) women's cross-country runners when research is lacking in CC intercollegiate athletics. The limited focus on CC athletics has left numerous crucial questions about…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Athletics, Student Athletes, Females
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Riley, Kristen E.; Tigershtrom, Ashley; Park, Crystal L.; Lauranceau, Jean-Philippe – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Objective: Few studies have examined relations between college sporting events and maladaptive health behaviors among non-athlete college students. Participants: 97 college students. Methods: Completed nightly surveys (alcohol, eating, physical activity, sexual risk taking, smoking) for 11 days around a National Championship game. Results:…
Descriptors: College Students, Health Behavior, Predictor Variables, College Athletics
Magner, Amber – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The NACDA Directors' Cup is a competition utilizing an unbiased scoring system that encourages a broad based athletic department as the standard for defining intercollegiate athletic success. Therefore, for NCAA DI athletic administrators the Directors' Cup should be the standard for defining intercollegiate athletic success. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Intercollegiate Cooperation, College Athletics, Competition, Departments
Greenawalt, Nancy Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this explanatory mixed methods research study was to examine the relationship of modern sexism to a female athlete's preference for a coach based on the sex of the coach. Female athletes (N = 155) from one National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I institution in the Northeastern United States participated in the…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Athletes, Females, Athletic Coaches
Newman, Richard E.; Miller, Michael T. – Online Submission, 2011
Intercollegiate athletics play a major and highly visible role in both higher education and the broader world of sports entertainment. A significant component of the entertainment derived from college athletic contests is related to the atmosphere promoted, both formally and informally, amid and around athletic events. The current study was…
Descriptors: Team Sports, College Athletics, Competition, Sport Psychology