Ted Lasso’s Goldfish Principle

This article maps the impacts of coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic on daily life and wellbeing university ice hockey athletes in Atlantic Canada. The study branched out from broader research participants all sports region that fall under national governing body, U SPORTS. regional conference University Sport (AUS) houses eleven member institutions, eight which are varsity teams, for total approximately 300 both men’s women’s competition. In context a small body literature athlete experience Canada new challenges posed modern life, this exploratory sought to chronicle how encountered endured pandemic, including cancellation competition Fall 2020 beyond. is case using multidisciplinary lens. It was informed by sociological account disruption relied patchwork education, psychology, sport management, health studies. Data collection occurred through an online qualitative questionnaire content analysis local mainstream media articles. then analyzed partly debrief interview with population. results will offer scholars, administrators, student services professionals understanding made sense long-term uncertainty frequent changes their everyday lives, perhaps view improving quality support development programming institutions future.