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– At their annual breakfast in Eugene, Oregon, the Track and Field Writers of America awarded Rich Elliott the Cordner Nelson Book Award for Runners on Running: The Best Nonfiction of Distance Running (Human Kinetics). In 1976, Elliott was named Illinois Distance Coach of the Year while working at Willowbrook High School. He moved to Deerfield High School in 1977 and was an assistant coach with the state cross country championship team before becoming the program’s head coach for both cross...
Most modern skatepark companies have portfolios with examples of their work, and there are numerous skatepark Web sites that rate, rank, and evaluate skateparks throughout the world. Skaters for Public Skateparks (SPS), a nonprofit skatepark advocacy group, has developed a formula for determining the size of your community’s skatepark population. Manufacturers of wood and modular skateparks incorporate a variety of methods to help dampen noise created by skateboarding on skatepark obstacles...
Learn more about contemporary theories of motivation, their applications, and future directions in Advances in Motivation in Sport and Exercise, Third Edition. Parsimony and elegance are valued attributes for a theory, but conceptual coherence is an essential attribute! For example, self-efficacy (see Gilson & Feltz, this volume) assumes a task-involving conception of ability, whereas attribution theory (e.g., Weiner, 1972) assumes an ego-involving conception of ability.
