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Item 24 UMC Student-Athletes Selected to NSIC Fall All-Academic Team(University of Minnesota Crookston, 2014-12-16) Smith, ShawnItem APAL/Konya Higher Order Affordances in Soccer 2020-22(2023-01-30) Peker, Alper Tunga; Boge, Veysel; Bailey, George S.; Wagman, Jeffrey, B; Stoffregen, Thomas A.; tas@umn.edu; Stoffregen, Thomas A.; Affordance Perception-Action LaboratoryThis dataset contains all data collected for APAL's "Higher-Order Affordances in Soccer" JEP Publication, 2022. This data allowed for valued additions to be made to both the affordance literature, and the literature examining human performance in sport. We are releasing this data per APA standards upon the acceptance of our paper.Item Beyond Orange Slices: The Contested Cultural Terrain of Youth Soccer in the United States(2019-06) MANNING , CHARLES (ALEX)This dissertation builds on my four-year ethnographic immersion into the world of youth soccer in the Twin Cities and dozens of interviews with players, parents, and coaches. My dissertation, titled “Beyond Orange Slices: The Contested Cultural Terrain of Youth Soccer in the United States”, demonstrates how various spaces of youth soccer in a metropolitan city are social environments where social inequalities, identities, and discourses of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, and community are constructed, challenged, and reproduced. In my dissertation I examine how the field of youth soccer raced, classed, and gendered; how larger social systems of inequality appear and shape taken for granted, but prevalent cultural spaces, such as sport; and how practices of youth soccer serve as a contested cultural site of meaning with regards to parenting culture, families, sporting discourse, youth development, community, identity, and social difference. The first section of my dissertation focuses on how youth soccer is a social field with seven different sites of youth soccer. Within these different locations of soccer’s social field, clubs create, maintain, and define a group identity that is centered on how they “do” youth soccer. Different communities “do” the sport in a manner that is informed by various parenting styles, ideals about community, and visions for proper youth development. The second section of my dissertation is about gender and how different forms of playing and coaching the game are shaped by cultural ideas of masculinity and femininity during youth. Throughout the field of soccer, players, coaches, and parents often intentionally strive to challenge gender norms about who can play and succeed in the game. Yet, many participants often still reproduce gender hierarchy and normativity through soft essentialism. In the final section I argue that soccer, and youth sport, is a useful and particular sociological window into how the dynamics of race and racism operate in the United States, particularly within diverse (racial and ethnic) social spaces. In this section, I show that in many cases youth soccer is a “cosmopolitan canopy” where social difference is supported and co-exists seemingly with ease and normality. Participants in these diverse social canopies of soccer frequently view such diversity as a positive feature of the sport and reproduce happy diversity talk. However, within these diverse soccer spaces, biological notions of race, racist microaggressions, and other forms of racial marginalization and exclusion appear frequently, simultaneously, and often with no formal challenges or reconciliation. These racist ruptures reveal the tenuous characteristics of diverse social spaces and sport, and highlights the limited inclusive potential of diversity discourseItem Golden Eagles Add Fox to Softball and Soccer Staffs(University of Minnesota Crookston, 2016-08-29) Smith, ShawnItem Hometown News, November 1993(University of Minnesota, 1993) University of Minnesota. Women's Intercollegiate AthleticsItem Hometown News, November 1995(University of Minnesota, 1995) University of Minnesota. Women's Intercollegiate AthleticsItem Hometown News, September-November 1994(University of Minnesota, 1994) University of Minnesota. Women's Intercollegiate AthleticsItem Minnesota Crookston Has 41 Student-Athletes Earn D2 ADA Academic Achievement Awards for 2018-19(University of Minnesota Crookston, 2019-09-25) Smith, Shawn D.Item The Perception of Affordances in Soccer(2024-05) Bailey, GeorgeAffordances are opportunities for action that emerge from relations between properties of an animal (human or non-human) and properties of its environment (Gibson, 1979/1986; Stoffregen, 2003). An individual’s ability detect affordances can change when a person acquires a high degree of skill in a particular sport (Higuchi et al., 2011; Seifert et al., 2018). In this dissertation, I extend research into affordances in sport, asking what soccer-specific affordances exist, and how they are detected and perceived. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction to the concept of affordances, explores context-specific affordances, and introduces higher- and lower-order affordances. In Chapter 2, I explore whether the type of kick (for power vs. for precision) affects youth soccer players’ perception of affordances. Furthermore, the effect of experience on the ability to perceive kicking-related affordances is explored. Some previous research has examined task-specific affordances within a sport, and other research has examined the difference in sport-specific affordance perception between skilled athletes and persons without athletic experience. This chapter adds the novel element of soccer-task-specific affordances, as well as covarying manipulations of long- and short-term experience. Chapter 3 extends the research into affordance perception in soccer, investigating the perception of higher-order interpersonal affordances for kicking that emerge in soccer. This chapter explores how these higher-order interpersonal affordances differ from their constituent lower-order affordances on both a personal level (the distance of the kick) and at the interpersonal level (whether the ball would be kicked through a gap defined by teammates or opponents). Chapter 4 directly expands on Chapter 3, investigating the influence of additional interpersonal affordances revealing game-specific context clues. In this Chapter, participants once again experienced the personal affordance of kick distance, as well as the interpersonal affordance of player role (team), though a third factor of whether they were facing away from each other (and, thus, facing away from the future path of the to-be-kicked ball), or facing toward each other (and, thus, facing toward the future path of to-be-kicked ball). Chapter 5 serves as a general discussion of the results of this research, as well as offering suggestions for future research into soccer- and sport-specific affordance research.Item Small sided games: physical activity, heart rate, and skill outcomes in club-level, adolescent girls soccer(2015-01) Statt, Eric H.The United States is in the midst of a physical activity (PA) crisis. Children across the country struggle to achieve the recommended dosage of daily PA. Sport is one mechanism for the accrual of PA in children. Soccer is one sport that has demonstrated efficacy in generating PA at a level commensurate with increases in health. With soccer, the use of small sided game training (SSG) has become an effective method for the development of match related performance outcomes in soccer players, the same outcomes associated with improved health. Much of the research has focused on elite male performers. However, there is minimal research investigating the effects of SSG training on youth, specifically club-level youth. In addition, the preponderance of research is focused on this mode of training for males, creating a gap in the literature detailing outcomes experienced by females. Previous research exploring the physiologic, time and motion, and skill outcomes associated with SSG training have been generally positive in both performance measures and health outcomes. There are questions as to the effectiveness of generalizing results to individuals who come from geographic regions where soccer is not a leading professional sport (e.g. United States). The potential for a difference in outcomes could exist with less cultural demand for performance in the sport. When this is juxtaposed against the poor results of children to receive the recommended dose of physical activity, there is a call for increased knowledge centered on SSG training, a popular training method. This research attempts to address the void in the literature using observational approaches. The results in indicate that SSG training produces greater time in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) than at intensities below this threshold (p = .05). This effect was moderated by competition level (CL), with Premier (P) players generating greater values than Classic 1 (C1) players and Classic 3 (C3) players. Classic 1 players in turn generated greater values than Classic 3 players. Heart rate response, indicates that when measuring two unique heart rate thresholds, 70% HRmax and 85% HRmax, SSG training is efficacious in producing exercise intensities above these commonly used intensities (p value). With the use of a performance metric, positive possession (PosP), to delineate between CL in SSG training, significant results were found when stratifying PosP by CL (p = .05). This investigation adds to the existing body of knowledge describing the utility of this training modality. The effect of CL on these outcomes, along with descriptions of the moderating effect of time and player position, is described in this underrepresented population, club-level adolescent females. This works aligns previous research while laying the foundation for larger more comprehensive trials.Item UMC Soccer Earns College Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Bronze Award(University of Minnesota Crookston, 2015-01-13) Smith, Shawn