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Abstract
Coaches have the potential to influence athletes’ moral development, especially at the collegiate level—a powerful period of growth in young adults’ lives. As central agents in athlete moral education, coaches’ moral development and understanding of professionalism is currently unknown. The purpose of this study was to increase understanding of the ethical professional identity development of sport coaches. In-depth interviews based on moral exemplar and moral identity development theories were conducted with NCAA Division-I collegiate head coaches (n = 12) in the United States who were peer nominated ‘moral exemplars’. Interviews elicited themes of moral exemplarity, professionalism, and above average ethical identity development. Results can inform and improve coach education for current and future members of the profession.
Notes
This article was originally published with errors. This version has been corrected. Please see Erratum (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2017.1327642).
1. More female coaches were nominated than expected—half of the sample was women, however women make up < 20% of all college head coaches (Acosta & Carpenter, Citation2012).
2. The racial distribution of the sample was expected—the majority of D-I head coaches are white (82.6% of men’s coaches, 84.5% of women’s coaches) (Lapchick, Agusta, Kinkopf, & McPhee, Citation2013).