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Harkins, Dorothy, Ed. – 1972
This is a collection of articles from the 1962-70 DGWS Track and Field Guides and from National Institute Proceedings on the subject of girl's track and field activity. Included among the selections are articles on teaching outlines for track and field; distance running for girls and women; athletic injuries; hurdling for girls and women; adaption…
Descriptors: Athletics, Physical Education, Sex Differences, Track and Field
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Fung, Lena; Ha, Amy – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1994
Examined official records of VIII World Veterans Championships to identify running, jumping, and throwing events whose performance was most affected by age. Found that 400-meter run and long jump were most affected by advancing age among both male and female master athletes whereas, in areas of throws, event most affected was javelin for men and…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Athletes, Chronological Age, Foreign Countries
Henschen, Keith P.; And Others – 1982
The relationship between level of achievement motivation and sex role orientation was measured in 67 female high school track and field athletes and in 67 female high school nonathletes. The hypothesis for the study was that there would be no significant difference between athletes and nonathletes on measures of achievement motivation, masculine…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Androgyny, Athletes, Females
Pipes, Thomas V. – Research Quarterly, 1977
While there would seem to be a predisposition of body type that would influence the individual's ability to perform in an event, it may also be that the training procedures for those specific events are common to both men and women athletes.
Descriptors: Athletes, Body Weight, Human Body, Males
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Coulon, Lyn; Mok, Magadalena – Early Child Development and Care, 1999
Explored nature and extent of track and field injuries of 8- and 9-year-olds and their injury prevention methods. Found that about one-third had at least one injury. About one-fourth considered their injuries serious. Most serious injuries occurred during track and field events. There were no age or gender differences in injury rates. Injury…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Athletics, Child Safety, Childhood Attitudes
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Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, Oklahoma City. – 1996
This annual report compares graduation rates for scholarship athletes at Oklahoma public and private institutions of higher education to those of the student body as a whole over 3- and 6-year periods. Colleges and universities identified scholarship athletes in 11 sport categories: football, basketball, baseball, softball, track and field,…
Descriptors: Baseball, Basketball, Black Students, College Athletics