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Early career termination with performance tennis players
Pěničková, Dominika ; Kočíb, Tomáš (advisor) ; Pravečková, Petra (referee)
Title: The reasons of the early career termination of high-performance tennis players. Objectives: The aim of this diploma thesis was to find out and analyze the causes or reasons leading to the involution in women's performance tennis, especially to their early career termination, while their goal was to reach the top level. Method: In this diploma thesis, I used a qualitative type of research. Chosen was a case study variant. Information was collected through semi-structured interview and document data analysis. Results: The survey results prove that there is not one main reason for the early termination of the career of high-performance female tennis players, but several voluntary and involuntary combinations of reasons that led to the termination of the career. Female players end their careers early mainly because of not reaching the required level and the related voluntary focus on studies and future profession. These reasons are a combination of long-term sporting failure (psychological reason) and free choice to leave (personal reason). Other reasons for premature termination are physiological problems, most often injury or illness, which forced female players to stop active activity. Key words: Sports career, reasons for termination sports career, early termination
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Ambitions of parents and their sports children
Krupičková, Zuzana ; Pěkný, Martin (advisor) ; Kotlík, Kamil (referee)
Title: Ambitions of parents and their sports children Objectives: The goal is to find out what influeces lead the youg population to sports. We want explore how much influence parents have for their children's sports. We also focus on the ambition of athletes on their sports activities Methods: This is an empirical research. The mixed research method will be used for this work, so that is qualitative and quantitative. The forms of a semi-structured interview and semi- structured questionnaire were used for the research study. Then we converted the obtained results into graphs and charts where we monitored the correlation between in the data obtained about athletes and their parents. Results: We knew how important the influence of parents is on their children's sports career. More or less parents did not care what sport their children chose. It was important for parents to make their children do what they enjoyed. The most important thing for parents was that their children develop motor skills and try more sports. Subsequently, they were able to better decides for themselves wchich sport they would do in the future. The most ambitious were parents or grandparents who used to play football, hockey and tennis. They wanted to practice the sport to their children. More than half of fathers wanted their...
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How do the teachers of the ZŠ Grünwaldova and the coaches of HC MOTOR České Budějovice describe the relationship between the sports career and the education of the pupils?
KRCHO, Josef
Combining a hockey career and education is very challenging. Following this fact, the author tries to describe the phenomenon, which is the relationship between the sports career and the education of pupils, both from the point of view of teachers and from the point of view of coaches, using a grounded theory. The results of the first part indicate that parents, authorities and the rules set by them, the personality of the individual, the current age category, individual interviews within the club and the environment are important factors that interact with each other and influence this relationship. In part of the research investigation, the author of the second communication between the school and the club, and how this communication establishes rules. The results refer to the club's mediator, to closer contact between the coach and class teacher, to a modified school schedule and non-compliance with the rules. How a student perceives the relationship between education and a hockey career is primarily conditioned by the environment in which the relationship is formed. Parents, teachers and coaches are the most influential in this environment. Communication between the school and the club and compliance with their set rules has a significant influence on the education and hockey practice of pupils/hockey players.
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Authentic experiences and recommendations from Olympic champions to build mental resilience and manage the psychological consequences of health problems.
Svoboda, David ; Suchý, Jiří (advisor) ; Harbichová, Ivana (referee)
Author: Bc. David Svoboda Title: Authentic experiences and recommendations from Olympic champions to build mental resilience and manage the psychological consequences of health problems Objectives: As there are not many surveys and publications dealing with psychological consequences caused by health problems in top- athletes' career, the main purpose of the research was to analyse authentic experience and recommendations, how the selected Olympic winners lived through these periods, what experience they have and what they would recommend to other athletes in this context from the viewpoint of their mental resistance. Furthermore, we will attempt to reveal possible consequences between the athletes' health and mental health. The following aim is to summarise this information into valid recommendations for other sportsmen. Methods: To obtain detailed information, a qualitative method through a structured interview with open questions (Hendl, 2005) was selected. The structured interview was conducted with nine Olympic winners and it contained 12 basic questions that were divided into three main sectors for clarity - a sector of athlete's mental resistance, a sector of athletes' health problems and their consequent reaction and the respondents' ideas and recommendations. The results were subjected to...
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The influence of early specialization and general preparation on the sports career of a performance cyclist
SOUČKOVÁ, Celestýna
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to find out whether there is a direct influence of early specialization and early start of activities on the further course of the career and to compare it with the concept of general training. The research method is an electronic questionnaire of our own design, which is part of a quantitative survey. The questionnaire has 25 questions that have both closed and open answers. The research group consists of 37 respondents who practice cycling or have performed at the performance level in the elite category. Based on the answers from the questionnaire, graphs and evaluation of the results were created, which are presented in the practical part of the work. The main results include the following: It has been shown that individuals who started cycling within the age of 8 have achieved significantly more significant success in the youth categories than other age groups. Individuals belonging to the first group (up to 8 years of age) were most affected by health problems, which means that starting a cycling career at an early age has a more negative impact on the health of individuals than the later beginning of a sports career. In comparison with the average training units, the first age group (up to 8 years) had on average more cycling trainings than the second, but also other sports activities significantly exceeded in individuals who started up to 8 years. It has also been shown that individuals who started cycling at an earlier age end their careers for health reasons more often than those who start later. This research has shown the pros and cons of early specialization and its impact on an individual's career.
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Athletes' dual career in the Czech environment
Klímová, Alžběta ; Voráček, Josef (advisor) ; Janák, Vladimír (referee)
Title: Athlete's Dual Career in Czech republic Objectives: The main aim of this thesis is to suggest an appropriate arrangement for program of the Czech Olympic Committee "Dual Career" and for the development of dual career issues in the Czech Republic. Methods: There was used secondary and primary sources in this thesis. The secondary sources stem from publicly available sources such as official website, annual reports, or previous research. As a primary source was used qualitative method of in-depth interviews with Czech athletes Lucie Charvátová, Ondřej Synek and program' manager Kateřina Neumannová. There was also used SPLISS research to characterize the current situation. Results: It was founded out the Dual Career has a great potential. However, there are currently insufficient financial and human resources for reaching the bigger part of the focus group. There was suggested the arrangements for improving the issue of dual career in this thesis. Czech society needs the implementation of changes at the legislative level. Also, there was recommended to establish cooperation with more universities and organizations offering employment to athletes. Keywords: athletes' career, transition of athlete's dual career, dual career
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Age of swimmers on european and world competitions between 2012 and 2016
Bukovanová, Jana ; Pokorná, Jitka (advisor) ; Chrzanowská, Babeta (referee)
Title: Age of swimmers on european and world competitions between 2012 and 2016. Goals: The goal of the thesis is to find out what is the age of swimmers on world competitions between 2012 and 2016 in freestyle categories for men and women. Methods: The main method used for the thesis was collecting data from official results list from each race. These were obtained on webs FINA and LEN. These data were compared in MS Excel. Results: The results give us information abou average age of swimmers in freestyle swimming disciplines in top competitions between years 2012 - 2016. Key words: Sport performance, age, sport career, parts and phases of sport training
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Age of swimmers on european and world competitions between 2012 and 2016
Bukovanová, Jana ; Pokorná, Jitka (advisor) ; Chrzanowská, Babeta (referee)
Title: Age of swimmers on european and world competitions between 2012 and 2016. Goals: The goal of the thesis is to find out what is the age of swimmers on world competitions between 2012 and 2016 in freestyle categories for men and women. Methods: The main method used for the thesis was collecting data from official results list from each race. These were obtained on webs FINA and LEN. These data were compared in MS Excel. Results: The results give us information abou average age of swimmers in freestyle swimming disciplines in top competitions between years 2012 - 2016. Key words: Sport performance, age, sport career, parts and phases of sport training
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