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Original Research

Published on 02 Oct 2025

A comparison of box-to-box and positional possession styles: selecting an appropriate game format for U13 footballers (a pilot study)

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Imants Bleidelis
Signe Luika
Aleksandrs Kolesovs
Behnam Boobani

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1634446

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Brief Research Report

Accepted on 30 Sep 2025

A Comparison of Shot Selection and Goal Scoring between Collegiate and Professional Women's and Men's Ice Hockey

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Ben Csiernik
Mikaeli Cavell
Kassidy Nauboris
Nick Wattie

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1648099

Mini Review

Accepted on 29 Sep 2025

Touch restriction during small-sided games in soccer – Effects on physiological, physical and technical and tactical performance

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Michael Clemens Rumpf
Johannes Jäger
Stefan Altmann
Matthias Lochmann

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1705921

114 views

Original Research

Published on 29 Sep 2025

Submaximal intensity periods in game-based drills vs. match demands in professional football

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Edu Caro
Manuel Lapuente-Sagarra
Toni Caparrós
Miguel Ángel Campos-Vázquez
David Pajón

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1666652

902 views

Original Research

Accepted on 23 Sep 2025

The influence of specific cognitive training in virtual reality on the inhibition of professional elite young ice hockey players

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Florian Heilmann
Torsten Schubert

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1682165

382 views

Original Research

Accepted on 15 Sep 2025

'You can definitely tell she's truly committed': student-athletes' discursive construction of athletic commitment during transitions in secondary school

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Marie Loka Øydna
Milla Saarinen
Jens Christian Nielsen
Christian Thue Bjørndal

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1658234

369 views

Original Research

Published on 12 Sep 2025

“Everybody wants to coach it, but fewer know how to do it”: a qualitative study of stakeholders’ perspectives on mental skill development in youth sports

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Philippe O. Müller
Ulrike Schwarzer
Dave Collins
Renato Frey
Jörg Spörri

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1633943

2,196 views

Original Research

Published on 12 Sep 2025

Investigation of validity evidence for the Coach Precompetitive Communication Questionnaire-Preference for measurement of collegiate athlete preferences of coach speech content and delivery

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Corinne T. Zimmerman
Nicholas D. Myers
Robin S. Vealey

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1615784

1,486 views

Perspective

Accepted on 09 Sep 2025

Conducting transformative research protocols in sports science

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Robin Santi
Simon ISSERTE
Cyrille Gaudin
Sébastien Chaliès

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1646717

254 views

Original Research

Published on 05 Sep 2025

Influence of relative strength on the optimal load of the hang power clean and hang high pull in collegiate athletes

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Yongmin Xie
Xingyu Pan
Fan Peng
Qinchang Sun

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1597535

1,318 views

Brief Research Report

Published on 01 Sep 2025

Analyzing angular momentum in the takeoff phase of medium-hill ski jumping

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Yuta Funato
Hirotaka Nakashima
Shinji Sakurai

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1643241

1,328 views

Original Research

Published on 22 Aug 2025

Attentional mechanisms in light training tasks

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Andria Shimi
Theofanis Kyriacou
Marios N. Avraamides

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1623558

1,766 views

Original Research

Published on 22 Aug 2025

Swimming coaches' perceptions and practices on periodization, performance monitoring, and training management

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Cristina Cano-Cuartero
Alejandro López-Hernández
Sergio Rodríguez-Barbero
José María González-Ravé

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1642020

1,909 views

Original Research

Published on 21 Aug 2025

Assessing fundamental motor skills proficiency in school-based sports physical education programs: implications for talent development

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Hubert Makaruk
E. Kipling Webster
Jared Porter
Beata Makaruk
Anna Bodasińska
Janusz Zieliński
Paweł Tomaszewski
Marta Nogal
Marcin Starzak
Marcin Śliwa

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1632930

1,805 views

Perspective

Published on 15 Aug 2025

The role of the sports coach in developing athlete capacity for transition to retirement

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Deborah Agnew
Shane Pill

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1650578

1,656 views

Original Research

Published on 10 Jul 2025

The influence of substitution decisions made by national team coaches on final match outcomes at UEFA EURO 2024

in Sports Coaching: Performance and Development

Tomasz Gabrys
Radoslaw Chruscinski
Michal Garnys
Matej Suva
Karel Švátora

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1573823

1,955 views