Spring 2027

Psychology and Coaching in Sports

Explores psychological principles in athletics and competition, focusing on leadership and holistic coach development.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Lindsey Miller

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.91 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the basic aspects of sport psychology and its place in both the broader field of psychology and in the field of coaching.

  • Identify and critique several psychological constructs that are often addressed in sport settings.

  • Describe the interrelation of psychological constructs in coaching.

  • Evaluate psychological constructs across diverse sports settings, including differences in developmental stages, sports, race, gender, culture, and geography.

  • Synthesize best practices relating to their own area of coaching interest.

  • Develop key strategies to be utilized in their own coaching settings, including identifying team members’ signs of risk, how to best coordinate with key collaborators, how to manage one’s own stress, etc.

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Prerequisites

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ELPA 753

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.91 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

LINDSEY MILLER is recorded teaching in Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LEC 001Online Only0 / 250

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.91 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Key principles of psychology relating to athletics.
  • Psychological aspects of leading.
  • Research on psychology in competition.
  • Improving processes and outcomes through attention to psychology.

Skills

  • Identifying and critiquing psychological constructs in sport settings.
  • Evaluating psychological constructs across diverse sports settings.
  • Synthesizing best practices for specific areas of coaching interest.
  • Developing strategies for coaching settings, including risk identification and stress management.

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ELPA 753 · Spring 2027

Psychology and Coaching in Sports

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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