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Performance milestones in the development of expertise: are they critical?

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posted on 2013-07-01, 00:00 authored by Lyndell BruceLyndell Bruce, D Farrow, A Raynor
Fifty-seven female netballers completed a training history profile to examine whether the achievement of performance milestones and/or accumulation of sport-specific practice were indicative of an athlete's level of expertise. Similar to previous research, results revealed that expert and developmental athletes accumulated a greater number of hours in netball-specific practice relative to the recreational participants, but did not differ in the number of sports played or hours accumulated in non-netball specific practice. Interestingly, some performance milestones were achieved by the expert and developmental athletes earlier than the recreational participants, however, the developmental athletes achieved a number of milestones at an earlier age than the experts. These findings are discussed in relation to contemporary models of skill development, namely deliberate practice (Ericsson, Krampe, & Tesch-Römer, 1993) and the developmental model of sport participation (Côté, 1999) and the underpinning socio-environmental factors that may influence sport participation and subsequent development of expertise. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

History

Journal

Journal of applied sport psychology

Volume

25

Issue

3

Pagination

281 - 297

Publisher

Taylor And Francis

Location

Abingdon, Eng.

ISSN

1041-3200

eISSN

1533-1571

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2013, Association for Applied Sport Psychology