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An Examination of Coping with Career Ending Injuries- An NCAA Division I and NCAA Division III Comparison
… (2011) suggested that the athletic identities of NCAA Division I athletes are similar to those of NCAA Division III athletes. Thus, the purpose of this study is to qualitatively examine and compare the coping strategies and injury impact of NCAA Division I and NCAA Division III athletes who have …
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Black Male Student-Athletes as NCAA Commodities
… commodification of the black male body by the NCAA. Throughout history the NCAA has earned lucrative amounts of money from its student-athletes. Black male student-athletes have helped to generate the most revenue for Universities by excelling in basketball and football. The NCAA treats black …
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Stress Among NCAA Division II Head Coaches
… for head coaches of collegiate sports at the NCAA Division II level. Program-Success relates to coaching issues such as inadequate travel budgets for contests with highly competitive teams, being able to recruit key personnel to improve success, and budget limitations that hamper recruiting. …
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NCAA injured student athletes' perception of social support
<p>Social support has a great impact on injured NCAA athletes' complete psychological and physical recovery. When individuals, such as the coach, athletic trainer, teammates, and family, incorporate social support in the recovery process the injured athlete's attitude and belief system is …
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NCAA Division I Athletes Preferences for Coaching Behaviors
… whether coaching behavior preferences of NCAA Division I athletes differ as a function of gender and type of sport. The Coaching Behavior Questionnare (CBQ; Martin & Barnes, 1999) was administered to 195 NCAA Division I athletes. Gender and sport type were the independent variables and the …
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Organizational commitment among NCAA Division III athletic directors.
… commitment among athletic directors at NCAA Division III member institutions. These issues of organizational commitment have not been previously addressed in regard to athletic directors. A quantitative, cross sectional, non-experimental, research design was utilized for this …
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Treatment Acceptability of NCAA Division I Student-Athletes
Consultations with sport psychologists can be a result of a coach implementing a sport psychology intervention for an athlete or team, or athletes personally choosing to utilize such services. The present study attempted to identify factors that could best predict an athlete's attitudes toward …
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Modeling the NCAA Tournament Through Bayesian Logistic Regression
… in Men's College Basketball that compete in the NCAA Tournament, such as seeding teams on an S-curve, and the Pomeroy and Sagarin ratings, simplifying the process of choosing winners to a comparison of two numbers. Rather than creating a rating system, we analyze each matchup by using the …
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NCAA Recruiting in the Age of Social Media
… National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division 1 athletes’ recruitment processes. The study employs a qualitative, interview-based methodology. Six Canadian athletes who received full NCAA division 1 scholarships in football, men’s basketball, and women’s basketball were …
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Self-Perception of NCAA Division I Student-Athletes
… experiences with racial discrimination, of 306 NCAA Division I student-athletes using the Self-Perception Profile for College Students (Harter & Neemann, 2012). Scores are compared across race/ethnicity and gender. Findings suggest that White student-athletes have significantly higher …
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Improving Opportunities for Today's Student-Athletes Within the NCAA
The NCAA should allow student athletes to receive a larger financial compensation for the amount of revenue they are responsible for generating annually. The current rules in place by the NCAA restrict any student-athlete from receiving money for his or her performance in their sport. These rules …
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NCAA Division I Basketball Facility Managers' Perceptions of Terrorism
… Three hundred and fifty facility managers at NCAA Division I universities and colleges in the United States, who were in charge of basketball arena safety, were chosen as subjects for this study. Questions pertaining to risk communications were presented on frequency and probability scales to …
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A Survey of NCAA Division III Athletic Training Programs
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Corporate sponsorships at NCAA division I-A independent colleges
… departments. A questionnaire was sent to all NCAA division Iâ A independent colleges (N = 24) in the United States. Twenty-one athletic departments returned the questionnaire for a response rate of 88%. The questionnaire investigated several areas of corporate sponsorship programs in the …
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NCAA Female Athletic Directors' Reported Barriers, Pathways, and Mentoring
… female athletic directors in the three NCAA divisions to ask about their perceptions about organizational barriers, pathways, and mentorship. The following research questions guided the thesis, with a feminist Standpoint Theory focus: (1) What are some of the organizational barriers that …
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Modeling the winning seed distribution of the NCAA basketball tournament
The National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) men's division I college basketball tournament is an annual competition that draws widespread attention in the United States. Estimating the outcome of each game is a popular activity undertaken by numerous websites, fans, and more recently, …
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Modeling and analyzing the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men's Division I Basketball Tournament is an annually held basketball tournament between top universities throughout the United States. Along with attracting tens of millions of viewers, the event has become increasingly ingrained in popular …
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Eating Disorder Policies Among NCAA Division I Intercollegiate Athletic Programs
… at all three hundred and thirty (N= 330) NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletic departments across the nation, this study examines the differences between Division I athletic department's having an eating disorder (ED) policy and those that that do not and the variables that lead to …
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A national profile of athletic academic advising in NCAA division institutions
… see what changes have occurred since 1981. All NCAA Division I institutions which participate in basketball and/or football were surveyed. With slightly over 68% of surveys returned, it was found that athletic academic advising had improved a great deal since 1981 but still had room for …
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