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Session 2: Influencing factors – key themes in the athlete’s journey

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Candice’s identity divided into five different roles, which are then sub-divided further.

  1. Social role. As a:
    • college friend
    • sports parent and friend
    • work friend
    • old school friend
    • sporting friend
  2. Professional role. As a:
    • university lecturer
    • line manager
    • PhD student
    • coach
  3. Sporting role. As a:
    • skier
    • runner
    • weight trainer
    • waterskiier
  4. Cultural role. As a:
    • music listener
    • theatre goer
    • reader
  5. Family role. As a:
    • daughter
    • mother
    • niece.

 2 Athletic identity: who am I?