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ABSTRACT
The 7.8 million adolescents participating in interscholastic sport have the potential to learn leadership skills through their sport experience. However, for sport to serve this educational purpose, athletes must be actively engaged in leadership training experiences. The Student-Athlete Leadership Academy (SALA) is a community-based leadership development program for high school student-athletes established through a partnership between AASP-certified consultants and athletic administrators in Western Pennsylvania. This article offers a program overview of this large-scale annual leadership summit, designed to connect interscholastic student-athletes across a region and formally facilitate the development of transferable life skills.
Funding
The Student-Athlete Leadership Academy was partially supported by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology Community Outreach Grant.