Profile and professional development of tennis coaches

• Autor(a) principal: Cortela, Caio Corrêa
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Milistetd, Michel, Galatti, Larissa Rafaela, Both, Jorge, Balbinotti, Carlos Adelar Abaide
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno de Educação Física e Esporte
• Texto Completo: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/cadernoedfisica/article/view/20631
• topic: Desenvolvimento Profissional; Treinadores; Tênis; Coach Development; Coaches; Tennis

Objective: to describe the profile of coaches who work with sportive initiation in tennis. Methods: sixty coaches (35.8±9.1 years) from 14 clubs of five Brazilian states. Coaches filled in a form containing sociodemographic variables and an adapted version of QUAFIPETAR questionnaire. For the data analysis, frequency calculations, descriptive statistics of central tendency, dispersion and distribution were performed. Results: the results showed that, in general, the coaches were characterized by: acting for five years or more in the sports initiation program; having an active professional career for at least 10 years; presenting a game level compatible with 1st or 2nd class players of the respective state federation; having a Physical Education degree; and being frequently engaged in coaching education activities/courses, especially in the federative bias. The pre-professional socialization with the modality occurred in the function of ball boys. Conclusion: this fact associated to the absence of the tennis course in Physical Education School reported by coaches reinforces the need of a better approach between the sport tennis and University environment and the increase of better coaching education programs focusing the sport participation context.