Category: Athletes

Sport psychology is a proficiency that uses psychological knowledge and strategies to address optimal performance and well-being of athletes and universal issues associated with sports settings and organisations. Sports psychology is an exciting field of study that is expanding all the time, and in a demanding sport such as swimming, enhancing the mental aspect of…

Turn on any live sports broadcast today and you will see the same things on the screen, regardless of the sport, the station, or the time of day  a fancy scoreboard displaying time remaining in the game, the current score of both teams and other pertinent information to help the viewer understand the situation…

As any career path an individual chooses to forgo, there are many steps to take to be the best at what you do. A sports event coordinator requires background, skills, traits, and many other responsibilities to be able to become successful in this industry. There are specific people that are meant to be sports event…

Introduction The first section of this assignment aims to demonstrate a critical understanding of the main theoretical and conceptual principals of organisational culture and its relevance for sports development. Subsequently discussing the cultural role and impact of leaders within organisations. The second section will consist of analysing the culture of a sporting charity called the…

Gender pay gap in general The gender pay gap and equal pay are phrases that are commonly used by the current generation; on tv, in papers and most prominently in the workplace. But do people really understand what these phrases mean? The gender pay gap or gender wage gap is the average difference between the…

New York City is most definitely a city that loves its sports and cheers for the home team. New York is probably the best represented city and state in this country when it comes to major league teams. I’ve never quite seen anything like it but I honestly can’t imagine a night when there isn’t…

Hosting sports mega-events has positive impacts on various fields. First of all, Dick and Wang(2010) analyse that the Summer Olympic affects positively in terms of a Cumulative Abnormal Returns(CAR) in the stock market after the announcement day and a considerable amount of capital infusion takes place in the stock market during a year before the…

Some people go through life wondering what their calling consist of. Some people know from beginning what they were born to do. I happened to be a part of the first group. Growing up I had many different passions, but when I graduated High School, I couldnt quite figure out what I really wanted to…

How does communication affect sports? There are many different types of communication that can affect sports, but the three main types are verbal communication, non-verbal communication and listening. These three are very important factors in communication and especially in sports. There are a couple areas I would have an image consultant work with me on.…

Until the 1800s, being a sportsman meant something completely foreign to todays spectator festivals. Mostly, it meant dressing up in jackets or vests and finding your dinner, or as we would call it hunting. But starting with sports games in the 19th century the sporting culture became something more closely related to what we know…