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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 RaynorFifty-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.
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Journal of applied sport psychologyVolume
25Issue
3Pagination
281 - 297Publisher
Taylor And FrancisLocation
Abingdon, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1041-3200eISSN
1533-1571Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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