1. PRESENTED BY: ALYSSA NELSON SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO Career Transition in Sport: Building Champions for Life

2. Transition From Sport Every transition has multiple outcomes depending on the individuals perception of the situation. Causes of Transition  Age, deselection, injury, and free choice. Negative outcomes of transition:  Unhappiness  Addictions  Identity Crises

3. Transition From Sport Cont. “Many athletes felt ignored, used, forgotten, and discarded in retirement” (Sinclair and Orlick, 1993) Student athletes feel that preretirement planning should be addressed while still competing. Who is at more risk?  Men’s hockey and Baseball  More of an opportunity to become a professional athlete.

4. Purpose of Research To explore student –athletes readiness for life after college. Use the findings to design a curriculum for transition in sport for athletes.

5. Experimental Hypothesis Junior and senior student athletes have a higher athletic identity and level of stress compared to freshman and sophomore student athletes. A lower athletic identity and life stress, as well as a higher life satisfaction and positivity will predict readiness for life after college.

6. Method Survey measuring athletes:  athletic identity  perceived stress  positivity  life satisfaction  mindset  Paper and pencil surveys were distributed to coaches or graduate assistants, athletes then completed survey at most convenient time.

7. Instruments Used Life After Sport Scale (LASS, Harrison and Lawrence 2004) Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS, Brewer et al., 1993) Perceived Stress Scale (PSS, Cohen and Sheldon, 1994) Positivity Ratio Scale (PRS, Fredrickson, 2009) Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS, Diener et al., 1985) Mindset Scale (Brewer et al., 1993)

8. Participants Minnesota State University- Mankato Division II Student -Athletes.  Football, volleyball, women’ soccer, women’s swimming, women's basketball, women’s hockey, men’s hockey, women’s golf, softball, baseball, women’s cross country and track.  About 250-300 surveys  Working towards getting wrestling, men’s basketball, and men’s cross country and track.

9. Example Survey Question PSS  In the last month, how often have you been upset because of something that happened unexpectedly?  Strongly dis-agree to strongly agree AIMS  Sport is the most important part of my life.  Strongly dis-agree to Strongly agree LASS (sentence completion portion)  As a Division II student- athlete I am…

10. Where am I at in the Process? Surveys are collected!

11. Planning of Seminar Sunday April 14, 2013? One day seminar from 12 pm to 4pm Wells Fargo is sponsoring Topics being presented  Financial Education (Wells Fargo)  Resume/job search and Grad school opportunities (Career Development Center MSU)  Values, interests, passions, and identity (graduate students)

12. Seminar Potential Pilot for a bigger future Hope to make this seminar a monthly occurrence for our athletes. By choosing to be proactive we are Building Champions.

13. Thank you! Questions?