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We've written before on the Surge blog about graduating from a level or a programme, the closure, the reconnecting with values, the rebuilding of purpose. This blog sits alongside that one but looks specifically at the harder end of the spectrum: full retirement from competitive sport, what the evidence says it actually does to mental health, and a newer framework researchers are proposing for how sport should prepare athletes for it. The Numbers Are Bigger Than Most People A
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
