The "sport career death" of college athletes: involuntary and unanticipated sport exits
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ABSTRACT:
This study undertakes an in-depth examination of the social psychological processes characterizing the experiences of athletes following an involuntary and unanticipated exit from college sport. Extensive interviews were conducted with 20 athletes who had either been cut from their sport team or whose entire sport program was suddenly eliminated. Interviews were designed to (a) capture the process by which athletes experienced this unique form of sport exit, and (b) identify factors which did (or did not) make this process problematic for athletes. Contrary to previous research on college athletes, athletes in this sample experienced a great amount of trauma and disruption in their lives and frequently equated their feelings with death and dying. Responses often paralleled the stage theory of death and dying developed by Kubler-Ross - shock and denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Factors accounting for the severity of this reaction were similar in nature to those which make death a difficult phenomenon to handle. It was concluded that the athletes in this sample represent a neglected group of individuals who may need special assistance as they involuntarily exit the intercollegiate sport context.
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