Current Collegiate Experiences of Big-Time, Non-Revenue, NCAA Athletes

Over the past 30 years experiences of collegiate athletes have been a major focus of scholarly research. Through well-known works, student-athletes’ roles and personal development have been cornerstones of this new knowledge base (Adler & Adler, 1991; Lapchick, 1987). However, an understanding of the big-time athlete who also participates in nonrevenue sports1 is grossly under-represented in the literature. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the benefits and challenges that athletes in these sports (e.g., tennis, soccer, golf, track and field, etc.) currently experience. Interviews were conducted with 30 collegiate athletes—who were chosen at random from a sample pool of 9,231 athletes around the country—that focused on the types of benefits and the specific challenges that these athletes face while attending college. Results revealed current benefits of being a big-time, nonrevenue college athlete were very heterogeneous with a total of 24 distinct themes mentioned. The most popular of these ...

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Journal of Intercollegiate Sport

• Publication date

  2010-12-01

• Fields of study

  Education, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1123/JIS.3.2.333
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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