Student-Athlete Success: Meeting the Challenges of College Life

Learning Objectives found at the beginning of each chapter help readers focus on the most important concepts.

Each chapter opens with a Student-Athletes Say, with comments from real student-athletes to provide real-world examples and personal stories.

Student-Athlete Challenge Self-Assessments in chapters two through eight help students understand and assess their level of involvement in challenges that athletes can face and how those challenges impact them.    

Self-Reflections help students assess what they have learned and decide what adjustments they may need to make to be successful.

Think About It questions at the end of each chapter help students apply what they have read to their personal lives.

Plugged in to Sports shows the effect and influence that technology has on student-athletes, their schedules, and their involvement in sports.

The Your Thoughts feature provides an opportunity for athletes to increase their self-awareness by reflecting on topics and expressing their thoughts in written form. 

Chapter 1-Student-Athletes’ Framework for Success

Chapter 2-Facing the Student-Athlete Challenges

Chapter 3-Challenge #1: Academics

Chapter 4-Challenge #2: Pain and Injury

Chapter 5-Challenge #3: Sports Nutrition

Chapter 6-Challenge # 4: Performance Enhancers

Chapter 7-Challenge #5: Alcohol

Chapter 8-Challenge # 6: Tobacco, Marijuana, and Other Drugs

Chapter 9-Challenge #7: Sex and Relationships

Chapter 10-Challenge #8: Gambling and Money

Chapter 11-Addressing the Challenges: Resources, Help, and Support

• I don’t think I’ve seen a manuscript so comprehensive created specifically for student-athletes.  I really liked how it was organized to address the challenges that student-athletes face.  You went the extra mile in including the resources sections in each chapter, journal entries, reflective questions and chapter summaries.  [The book is] very user and instructor friendly and gives practical advice on how to deal with these challenges personally or in helping a teammate or friend.

  This is the best text created for student-athletes.  It is by far the most in-depth answer to helping our student-athletes deal with the challenges that they commonly face.

  -Kathy Kaler, Athletic Academic Counselor, Illini CHAMPS/Life Skills Coordinator

   

For student-athletes in courses designed to address sports and drugs, life skills, and health promotion.

For undergraduate students in programs and courses to learn how to work with student-athletes in the fields of health and physical education, sports management, athletic training, health promotion, and sports medicine (e.g. Drugs and Society, Athletic Training and Performance, Personal Health, and Coaching).

For coaches, athletic directors and administrators as well as parents and high school student–athletes.

• Sample Syllabus
• Preface
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 6