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Partners of competing athletes carry real stress, from sacrifice and scrutiny to uncertainty about life after sport. Here's what the research says, and what helps.
Most of what gets written and talked about in sport psychology focuses on athletes leaving sport, retirement, injury, deselection. Far less attention goes to a transition every serious athlete faces earlier and often with just as much psychological weight: the jump in. Moving from junior to senior level, from club to representative programme, from school sport to college sport, from talented kid to one competitor among many talented adults. This blog looks specifically at tha
