This study examined the concepts of career preparation and the lives post-sport of retired former collegiate swimmers. Swimming is a sport that has next to no opportunities to compete professionally, meaning that all swimmers must undergo career preparation and transition into full-time careers once their eligibility has expired. This study was…

Transitioning out of college for NCAA Division III student athletes is a unique experience. Through the lens of the athletic identity theory, this study examined how Division III student athletes describe their experience transitioning out of college. Participants included former Division III student athletes from a university in the southwest…

This research undertook to determine what motivates adults to continue learning while other less cognitively strenuous, and admittedly more hedonistic, choices exist. Many older adults desire to seek out and integrate knowledge about their environment, thus improving or stimulating intellectual functioning. Comparative analysis was used to…