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Post-Career Transition of Female Professional Basketball Players in the Context of the Czech Basketball Environment
Hrabětová, Anna ; Kaprálková, Michaela (advisor) ; Crossan, William Morea (referee)
Title: Post-Career Transition of Female Professional Basketball Players in the Context of the Czech Basketball Environment Objectives: The aim of the thesis is to find out how former Czech female professional basketball players experienced the process of integration into mainstream life, the factors that influenced it, whether the process was de facto successful or still not completely finished, and to try to find the possibilities of potential facilitations in the period before or during the process by themselves, as well as by clubs or umbrella organizations. Methods: The thesis applies a qualitative data research method using semi-structured interviews with six former professional basketball players. The collected data is then interpreted and compared. Results: The process of transition from professional basketball to everyday life was successful for five respondents and for one respondent it was not successful or still not completed. Despite the fact that this is a highly individual issue, the research shows that in order to facilitate the transition on the part of female players, it is ideal to study during their careers and, if time permits, to gain at least some work experience, even if only part-time. Family shaping and influence from a young age, internal settings and priorities also play...
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Snowboard coach competency profile
Veselková, Sára ; Voráček, Josef (advisor) ; Crossan, William Morea (referee)
Title: Competence profile of a snowboarding coach Objectives: The goal of this bachelor's thesis is to create a competency profile of a snowboarding coach based on data obtained by electronic questioning of athletes, their coaches, parents, and data drawn from the answers of a semi-structured interview with a professional snowboarder. Methods: Two methods were used for the data collection - an electronic survey and a semi-structured interview. The survey was aimed at three research groups (athletes older than 15 years, coaches, and parents of athletes) and included questions to assess 40 competencies. The semi-structured interview took place online, and the respondent was a professional athlete from the Red Bull international team. Results: The competence profile of a snowboarding coach as the result of this bachelor's thesis is suitable for all age categories interviewed. The profile includes the competencies the respondents rated from very important to most important. There are 15 of these competencies in total. Namely 7 abilities and skills (the ability to explain the correct execution, the ability to identify mistakes made, the ability to motivate others, the ability to communicate, the art of dealing with people, the ability to ride a snowboard, and the ability to organize activities), 5...
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Coverage of women in selected online articles during the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games
Poláčková, Tereza ; Crossan, William Morea (advisor) ; Kaprálková, Michaela (referee)
Title: Coverage of women in selected online articles during the Beijing 2022 Olympic games Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to analyse the gender balance of articles published on two selected online sports websites and their social networks. Methods: This thesis contains an analysis of secondary data, which were studies dealing with gender issues not only in the Czech Republic but also abroad. The articles were subjected to a content analysis, which included a quantitative as well as a qualitative part of the research. Indicators were selected after analysis of secondary data and examined by content analysis. Posts on social media were examined by quantitative method of data collection. Results: The results obtained from the content analysis and compared with earlier studies showed that gender imbalance has decreased in the last four years and that articles are fairly distributed between men and women. Compared to the independent standard, that was determined by the percentage distribution of all participating athletes, the percentage of articles written about women was higher. The gender of the authors was no longer equal. During the analysis of the two sites, there were found only four women from fourty eight authors. Thus, the authors were not influenced by gender and wrote articles...
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Continuation of the athletic career of graduates of sport classes of chosen school
Soukup, Jiří ; Crossan, William Morea (advisor) ; Bednář, Miloš (referee)
Title of the thesis: Continuation of athletic careers of graduates of sports classes of a chosen school. Aims: The main aim of the Bachelor's thesis is to identify the factors that may influence the early termination of an athletic career. Methods: The thesis uses qualitative research in the form of an interview with the head of the sports classes of the selected school and quantitative research in the form of a questionnaire that was sent to the graduates of the sports classes of the selected school. Results: The main reasons why graduates quit athletics are interests in other activities, injuries, the time commitment of athletics, transferring to high school, generally not enough time, and the breakup of a group. Keywords: organized sport, education, physical education, primary school, athletics
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Czech Hockey Academies' role analysis in players development system in the Czech Republic
Šťovíček, Radek ; Kaprálková, Michaela (advisor) ; Crossan, William Morea (referee)
Title: Czech Hockey Academies' role analysis in players development system in the Czech Republic Objectives: The main objective of this thesis is to determine which hockey players had been nominated to the Czech under-18 and under-20 national teams during the period starting by the 2015/16 season until the 2019/20 season and to determine afterward the probability of players selection to the national teams mentioned before in terms of competing only in domestic leagues and in terms of competing abroad. Methods: In the thesis a quantitative method of data collection was used, namely the statistical analysis. The probability of players competing in the domestic and foreign leagues was compared using the odds ratio model. All the information collected in terms of thesis composing was verified within practical usage by a qualitative method of semi-structured interviews with two different respondents. Results: During the observed period the majority of selected players to under-18 national team selection for top tournaments played in domestic league. For Under-20 World Championship is players selection slightly dominated by players competing in foreign leagues. The probability of being selected to the players selection for the top tournaments during the observed period was higher for players competing in...
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Drop out in competitive girl's basketball
Lisá, Nikola ; Crossan, William Morea (advisor) ; Mudrák, Jiří (referee)
Title: Drop out in women's youth competitive basketball Objectives: The main goal of this master thesis is to use electronic questioning to find out the reasons for the atrition of former female players, within the last five years, in the categories U12-U19 (the so-called age category 12-19 years) from the basketball Youth Sports Centers (SCM and SpS) that have been assigned the status of the year 2022. Methods: The work used a combination of the quantitative method, in the form of an electronic questionnaire that was sent to former young female players, and the qualitative method, where in-depth interviews were conducted with four coaches and one female coach. For higher accuracy and better com- parison of results, the questionnaire was constructed based on previously conducted studies on the drop out of sports activities of children and youth, specifically according to the model "Questionnaire of reasons for attri- tion" by Gould et al. (1982). Results: A total of 1945 girls droped out from basketball centers during the period under review. 160 former players participated in the research. The main reasons the girls left were: "I felt a lot of pressure from the coaches", I didn't like the coach" and "I didn't feel like an important part of the team". Reasons expressing a negative experience with...
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Application of managerial activities: cases of basketball teams of different age categories
Svobodová, Anna ; Kaprálková, Michaela (advisor) ; Crossan, William Morea (referee)
Title: Application of managerial activities: cases of basketball teams of different age categories Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to find out how the coaches of non-professional basketball deal with selected managerial activities and then compare how the application of these selected activities differs across age categories - from the youngest to adults. Methods: In this thesis was used comparison method, as well as the interview method and the questionnaire method. The method of comparation was used to compare the use of selected managerial activities across age categories and how individual coaches work with them. Data for comparation were obtained through personal or online semi-structured interviews with six basketball coaches of individual categories. The generalization of responses was achieved through an electronic questionnaire targeting all female non-professional basketball coaches of selected age categories and with its questions it fills in or founds out facts that followed on from the information obtained in the interviews. Results: We found that non-professional basketball coaches perform managerial activities in a large extent for their teams. Some managerial activities are handled differently in individual ages, while others are handled very similarly. However, their...
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Evaluation of the organization of a chosen sport event
Fančovičová, Kristína ; Crossan, William Morea (advisor) ; Krause, Veronika (referee)
Title: Evaluation of a selected sport event - The European U18 Baseball Championship Objectives: The objective of this master thesis is to present the strengths and weaknesses of the organization of the European Junior Baseball Championships (European U18 Championship) held in August 2022. Furthermore, based on the information gathered from interviews, observations and participant surveys, to identify opportunities proposing implementation, as well as to identify threats and proposing their elimination for the future organization of tournaments in the Czech Republic. Methods: The master thesis uses three research methods (semi-structured interviews, participant observation, questionnaire survey) and one analytical method (SWOT analysis). The views of the participants of the event are gathered through an electronic questionnaire sent to the emails of all participants of the U18 European Championship in 2022. The organizers' views on the preparations and the course of the tournament are obtained through semi-structured interviews conducted with two members of the Czech Baseball Association's organizing team. Participant observation conducted by two independent researchers at the tournament venues (13-20 August 2022) during the tournament dates provides an overall picture of the U18 European...
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Social media marketing trends and their use in creating an advertising campaign for the brand Czech Surfers
Veselka, Dominik ; Crossan, William Morea (advisor) ; Voráček, Josef (referee)
Title: Social media marketing trends and their use in creating an advertising campaign for the brand Czech Surfers Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to identify current social media marketing trends through the analysis of secondary data and then describe these trends in more detail so that they can be used in the creation of the advertising campaign Czech Surfers. Methods: To identify these social media marketing trends, the work uses content analysis of 40 papers. These papers are evenly distributed across the research period from January 2020 to November 2021. The following studies and broader trend specifications are conducted in a case study, which describes the 12 most important social media marketing trends in more detail. Results: The results of the research show that the 12 trends identified are highly interconnected. At the same time, it turned out (with two exceptions) the defined trends are applicable to all social media platforms examined, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. In the process of creating an advertising campaign plan, its SMART goals were set, the strategy was defined, and the specific implementation of the identified trends into the environment of Czech Surfers social media profiles was carried out. It all ends up with a content posting plan for the...
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Management of one chosen international sporting event of softball held during the coronavirus pandemic.
Sedláková, Klára ; Čáslavová, Eva (advisor) ; Crossan, William Morea (referee)
Title: Management of the international sport event in softball at the time of the covid pandemic Objectives: The goal of the study is to elaborate the specific measures and recommendations how to improve in future the management of the international softball events in the Czech Republic based on the management evaluation of the Junior Women's Softball European Championship U-18 and to point out the impacts of Covid-19 on the organization of the specific international event and to find out the effective answers to them for future. Methods: The study used the method of both qualitative and quantitative data researches. The qualitative research was conducted as a structured interview with the main organizer of the event. The quantitative research was done with use of a marketing research, namely the method of the Brady model of service evaluation, in a form of questions targeted on service evaluation of the event by the participants (primary data collection). The quantitative research of this thesis was further composed of the results of own unparticipated observation. Next, the method of the SWOT analysis was used. The secondary data collection was conducted as an analysis of the specialized texts on management and project management of the sporting event. Results: The results of the study provide a...
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