The findings of this investigation suggest that anxiety does not influence physical work capacity. (MM)

The growing role of athletics in our society brings into focus many questions concerning the training of sports personnel. (LH)

Resolutions concerning sports and medicine, the role of women in sports organizations and in physical education, and the relationship between women's athletics and the media were adopted by the conference members. (LH)

Investigated initiatives to increase teenage girls' participation in sport and physical activities, examining good practice case studies from Australia. Surveys of national, state, and regional sporting organizations and various community and school organizations (including culturally diverse girls and girls with disabilities) highlighted three…

Introduces theme issue of this journal on the psychosocial influences on girls and women in sport and physical activity, focusing on the work of Dorothy V. Harris who battled for equal sporting opportunities and benefits for females. The papers are written from a feminist perspective. (SM)

This multimethod study explored the promising link between organized sports involvement during the high school years and sexual behavior/health among 176 adolescent women. Using more sensitive and appropriate measures than those in existing studies and directed, in part, by cultural resource theory, this study helped to fill a gap in the…

At colleges and universities across the nation, intercollegiate athletics is a key element of campus community. Almost since the first intercollegiate competition, athletic competition has brought students together as athletes and spectators in a manner different from the intellectual pursuits of the classroom, yet similar in embodying the core…

This updated second edition provides comprehensive and current information on women in sports, detailing the history, biography, bibliography, and statistics of female professional and amateur athletes. The book is divided into 4 parts with 6 chapters. Part 1, History of Women's Sports, presents: (1) Women in American Sports and (2) Women in the…

This guide to the archives of the Tennessee College Women's Sports Federation (TCWSF), now dissolved, details the contents of the 13 cartons of materials which constitute the TCWSF collection. Materials are organized into series under particular topics. The guide describes the arrangement of documents in each series and then lists the contents of…

The present structure must be modified so that athletics will again be self-initiated, fun-oriented, and player-controlled, with equal opportunities for girls and women. (Editors)

This text of a panel discussion explodes the myth of female inferiority in professional sports. (JS)

This partially annotated bibliography lists more than 8,600 English language books, periodical articles, reference works, and review essays concerning the status of women. The emphasis is on change, attempted change, and continuing problems confronting women in nearly 100 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania, Europe, Latin America, the…

The National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS) put out this manual on aquatics, the first part of which contains a brief description of the goals, beliefs, and functions of the NAGWS; a list of standards in sports for girls and women; and a list of the members of the NAGWS Aquatics Committee. The second part contains articles on a…

This book answers questions concerning athletics and the law. The chapters include trends in litigation, disruptive behavior, the changing attitude of the court toward married athletes, training rules, and good conduct codes. They include the problem of athletic travel, the changing role of state athletic associations with their diverse rules,…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 7-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Advanced field hockey. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE. Course guidelines, description, and a broad goal statement are presented and behavioral objectives listed. Course content and learning activities to meet the skill objectives are also presented. A 14-item bibliography is included. OBJECTIVES…