Backboards & Blackboards: College Athletes and Role Engulfment

✍ Scribed by Patricia A. Adler; Peter Adler

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Describes and analyses the relationships of the players, coaches, supporters, news media, and other key personnel and depicts the problems, pressures and rewards of being a student athlete. Based on ten years of observations and interviews of teams from five universities in three different cities.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue-Studying College Athletes
1. Overview
2. Role Expectations
3. The Athletic Role
4. The Social Role
5. The Academic Role
6. The Gloried Self
7. Resolving Role Conflict
8. Terminating the Role
9. The Engulfed Self
Notes
References
Index