TY - CHAP

T1 - Careers of European Athletes

T2 - Who is Ultimately Responsible?

AU - Walzel, Stefan

AU - Rotering, Niklas

AU - Crabtree, Ruth

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - The compatibility of sport and professional careers has significantly deteriorated in recent years. While athlete's dual careers have been well researched from the athletes' perspective, comparatively little attention has been paid to the benefits offering specific sport science study programmes by universities to high performance athletes (HPA). As this chapter will show, HPAs have few advantageous skills and experiences that are especially functional for jobs in sport or related to sport. Universities with sport science degree programmes could offer great opportunities for elite athletes. However, several challenges are associated with university careers, which requires the cooperation between universities, politics and sport federations. Instead of customising existing programmes to meet the specific needs of HPAs, it would be useful to potentially develop tailor made study programmes in sports science based on the specific needs of HPAs.

AB - The compatibility of sport and professional careers has significantly deteriorated in recent years. While athlete's dual careers have been well researched from the athletes' perspective, comparatively little attention has been paid to the benefits offering specific sport science study programmes by universities to high performance athletes (HPA). As this chapter will show, HPAs have few advantageous skills and experiences that are especially functional for jobs in sport or related to sport. Universities with sport science degree programmes could offer great opportunities for elite athletes. However, several challenges are associated with university careers, which requires the cooperation between universities, politics and sport federations. Instead of customising existing programmes to meet the specific needs of HPAs, it would be useful to potentially develop tailor made study programmes in sports science based on the specific needs of HPAs.

UR - https://www.routledge.com/Education-in-Sport-and-Physical-Activity-Future-Directions-and-Global-Perspectives/Petry-Jong/p/book/9780367433604

U2 - 10.4324/9781003002666-23

DO - 10.4324/9781003002666-23

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-0-367-43360-4

SN - 978-1-032-20606-6

SP - 216

EP - 227

BT - Education in Sport and Physical Activity

A2 - Petry, Karen

A2 - de Jong, Johan

PB - Routledge

CY - Abingdon

ER -