Frontiers in Sports and Active Living | Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Original Research

Accepted on 11 Apr 2025

Agility Development in Youth Soccer: The Efficacy of Fixed-Role Small-Sided Games

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Ioan Neag
Ion Mihaila
Leonard Julien Fleancu
Maura Stancu
Vladimir Potop
Dumitru Barbu
Laurian Ioan Paun
Ilie Mihai

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1593906

Original Research

Accepted on 08 Apr 2025

Effects of Transformational Leadership on Positive Youth Development in Japanese Sports

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Saori Nakayama
Makoto Izawa

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1569274

Original Research

Accepted on 07 Apr 2025

Design, Validation, and Reliability of the Bangor Rugby Assessment Tool (BRAT) for Evaluating Technical and Tactical Skills in Rugby Union Development Pathways

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

George Charles Lowe
Julian Andrew Owen
Victoria Mary Gottwald
Eleri Jones

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1568302

Original Research

Published on 01 Apr 2025

Combining environment and task manipulation improves the development of individual creativity in futsal players

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Behzad Mohammadi Orangi
Behrouz Ghorbanzadeh
Mansoureh Shahraki
Mozhgan Memarmoghaddam
Matthieu Lenoir

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1532810

615 views

Original Research

Accepted on 27 Mar 2025

Performance level discriminative validity of agility tests in youth tennis players

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Goran Munivrana
Goran Jelaska
Mario Tomljanović

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1486777

Systematic Review

Published on 24 Mar 2025

Understanding significant experiences of adolescent athletes’ participation in competitive sports life: a systematic review

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

M. Fadli Dongoran
Heny Setyawati
Agus Kristiyanto
Hermawan Pamot Raharjo
Caly Setiawan

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1515200

599 views

Original Research

Published on 18 Mar 2025

Insights into coaching a women's national futsal team

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Fraser Carson
Tihana Nemčić Bojić
Khatija Bahdur

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1533224

787 views

Original Research

Published on 17 Mar 2025

Understanding the bullying phenomenon through the eyes of the youth football coaches in the Portuguese region of Tâmega e Sousa

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Cátia Vaz
José Eduardo Teixeira
Daniel L. Portella
Diogo Monteiro
Pedro Forte
Sandra Silva-Santos
Joana Ribeiro

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1520737

806 views

Original Research

Published on 05 Mar 2025

A survival analysis of dropout among French swimmers

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Audrey Difernand
Alexia Mallet
Quentin De Larochelambert
Robin Pla
Andy Marc
Kilian Barlier
Juliana Antero
Jean-François Toussaint
Adrien Sedeaud

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1509306

1,214 views

Editorial

Published on 27 Feb 2025

Editorial: Women in coaching and leadership

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Áine MacNamara
Dave Collins

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1573237

778 views

Original Research

Published on 27 Feb 2025

Effects of coaches’ feedback on psychological outcomes in youth football: an intervention study

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Iben Berntzen
Pål Lagestad

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1527543

1,109 views

Systematic Review

Published on 12 Feb 2025

Learning how to swim in 5- to 12-year-old children: a scoping review of evidence-based motor learning methods

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Carola Minkels
John van der Kamp
Ralph de Vries
Peter J. Beek

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1505301

1,081 views

Original Research

Accepted on 10 Feb 2025

Characteristic of Playing Positions in the Basketball through the Social Network Analysis

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Mohammad Mehdi Kheirkhiz
Behroz Abdoli
Lorenzo Laporta
Alireza Farsi
Faezeh Hadian

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1502135

Original Research

Published on 31 Jan 2025

Harnessing coaches' expertise: creating 11 sport-specific profiles for talent orientation

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Johanna Ochs
Andreas Hohmann
Johan Pion

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1432903

626 views

Original Research

Published on 31 Jan 2025

Training load and fitness monitoring in Czech football: coach practices and perspectives

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Dominik Bokůvka
Michal Hrubý
Kristýna Čuperková
Tomáš Vencúrik
Vitor Padinha
Ana Carolina Paludo

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1513573

657 views

Original Research

Published on 28 Jan 2025

It's not always easy to buy the idea: strategies, perceptions, and implications of learner-centered teaching in coach education

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

William das Neves Salles
Lincoln Cruz Martins
Juarez Vieira do Nascimento
Michel Milistetd

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1534372

448 views