Guest: Jean Côté

 

Dr. Jean Côté is professor and Director in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University at Kingston (Canada).  His research interests are in the areas of youth sport, coaching, positive youth development, and sport expertise.  Dr. Côté is regularly invited to present his work to both sport governing organizations and academic conferences throughout the world.  In 2009, Dr. Côté was the recipient of the 4th EW Barker Professorship from the Physical Education and Sport Science deparment at the National Institute of Education in Sinpapore.  He received the Queen's University Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision for 2013.  Dr. Côt�'s recent line of research involves the use of observation techniques to examine the influence of different types of coach-athletes relationships on athletes' outcomes.  This work aims at the development of an evidence-based Transformational Coaching training workshop to help coaches create optimal sport environment for the development of better people and athletes. 

 

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Twitter: @jeancote46

 

Website: http://www.queensu.ca/skhs/faculty-and-staff/faculty/jean-cote

 

Additional link: http://youthsportsoftheamericas.org/