Student athlete: From recruitment to the academic, athletic, & social experiences

Abstract

Student-athletes in the present study seemed more athlete-students in that they
were consistently more concerned about their athletic performance than their academic
performance. With the number of road trips and early scheduled classes, students freed
up their mid-afternoons to late evenings for the respective sport of which they were a part
of. By conducting such research, a number of different elements became clearer during
the researcher's efforts to find out why an athlete chooses a specific institution, the nature
of his or her overall university experience, and the interpersonal relationships college
athletes make throughout the course of their undergraduate careers.

Date of Award	2011
Original language	American English
Awarding Institution	Eastern Illinois University
Supervisor	Daniel Nadler (Supervisor)