Pressures in participation
Rachel Arnold, a PhD student in Sport and Performance Psychology at Loughborough University, is exploring the pressures that sport performers experience as part of their participation in competitive sport. She has developed a short indicator which can be extremely helpful to sport performers, since it can not only help them to identify the factors that are creating stress for them within their sporting environments, but also at what intensity these occur and how often. It takes around only 15 minutes and is very easy to complete.
Rachel needs to collect around 700 indicators for this PhD study. All that the indicator requires is that respondents are sport performers (18 years or older) who have participated in competitive sport over the past month at a club level or higher. Any personally identifiable information that is provided on the indicator will remain confidential. Apart from the researchers, nobody will have access to any responses.
Try it out at www.survey.lboro.ac.uk/osi-sp
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Karenza Morton is the RYA East Midlands' Regional Communicator. Karenza used to work as the RYA’s Racing Communications Officer in Southampton but recently relocated further north and is now focussing her RYA communications efforts exclusively on the East Midlands.
To help her leverage as much good publicity as possible for all the great work that goes on at our clubs and our success stories, please tell her what you want to shout about.
Has your Club secured funding for a new club project to drive participation? Has one of your members landed a major Championship title or award? Have you introduced a new club initiative aimed at encouraging a particular group of people to get out on the water?
Please let Karenza know whatever you think may be of interest to the media. The earlier you are able to tell her what might be on the horizon, the more chance we potentially have of being able to factor that news into the monthly media schedule.
A crib sheet on how to put together a good press release can now also be downloaded from the RYA East Midlands website (link here real soon!) to help you try to maximise publicity for your club activity in your local area.
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