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Abstract
A descriptive phenomenological approach guided our examination of athletes’ perceptions regarding group member interactions following an injury event. Semistructured interviews were conducted with male members (N = 10) of Canadian Interuniversity Sport basketball teams. Athletes described experiences in which a single injury elicited strategic shifts in team tactics and personnel, which led to role adjustments, changes in emotional climate, interpersonal tensions, and differing perceptions regarding emergent opportunities within the group. The events perceived to unfold within the group following an injury reveals the necessity to expand existing psychosocial models of sport injury.