Miss Snell's Way: A Life-Affirming Organic Model Created in Sport

Miss Snell's Way: A Life-Affirming Organic Model Created in Sport

This is a dissertation that is about Eleanor Snell and her journey to becoming so successful prior to Title XI.

The dissertation explores a women’s way of coaching and being in sport that existed prior to Title IX. It considers a shift from an organic to a mechanistic coaching approach. An alternative model based on the concept of organicism and underlying principles of relational power, life-affirming actions, and inclusiveness of all beings is presented. This new model emerged from three sources: (a) personal experience; (b) material from 18 interviews with former student-athletes of Eleanor Frost Snell, who coached at Ursinus College from 1931 to 1972; and (c) the literature of systems theory, systemic thinking, and Chinese philosophy. The life-affirming organic model re-visions sport, where sport is an important site for transformation not only of our individual selves but also of our human cultures.

Robin G Cash

Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, Volume 15, Issue 1

Fielding Graduate University

2002

Robin G. Cash

Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, Volume 15, Issue 1.

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English

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