Collegiate recreation and intercollegiate athletics have an impact on individual, group, and community development of students who are participants, employees, and athletes and learn leadership within these environments. This chapter explores and applies leadership frameworks in recreation and athletics.

Development of a unified classification system to replace four of the systems currently used in disability athletics (i.e., track and field) has been widely advocated. The definition and purpose of classification, underpinned by taxonomic principles and collectively endorsed by relevant disability sport organizations, have not been developed but are required for successful implementation of a u...

There is a mentality across universities that money spent on athletics might be better spent on things that directly impact the academic environment of the institution. For example, in order to better the university one may argue that money spent on upgrading the library is more appropriate than money spent on renovating the stadium. The more general issue is the conflict between spending on ac...

BACKGROUND The equivocal findings in the literature on efficacy of massage makes it difficult to assess the requirement for, or justify the use of, specialist massage personnel at major athletics events. However, the use of massage by athletes during training and competition remains popular. OBJECTIVES To quantify the amount of their time that physiotherapists devote to massage treatment at m...

The changes caused by Digital Technologies of Information and Communication (DTIC) present new challenges for Education, which must incorporate these technologies, provide new mediations and pedagogical proposals to meet the changing needs of society. In today's context and the evidence of the lack of teaching materials targeted to athletics and the difficulty that physical education teachers s...

Athletes’ health protection through prevention research is an important goal of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is a task taken seriously by several major international sports federations including the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the European Athletics (EAA). 7 To this end, surveillance studies have been conducted at 13 international Athletics cha...

Executive Summary The Context of College Sports, 2011-12. During 2011, the landscape of intercollegiate athletics changed significantly, presenting COIA a new mix of challenges. In the area of improving the alignment of athletics with academics, the news was generally positive: significant new academic reforms were adopted by the NCAA, and evidence of the positive impact of earlier reforms bega...