ATHLETES AND ADVENTURE EDUCATION - AN EMPIRICAL-INVESTIGATION

This study identifies and describes the outcome-oriented effects of ro pes course participation on a girls high school tennis team and explor es the process through which these outcomes were achieved. Lewin's cha nge theory is used to explain how some of the athletes reaped greater benefits from the ropes course experience than other athletes, and sim ilarly were more dedicated and effective in their abilities to transfe r the concepts they had learned to the tennis courts and beyond, Impli cations for practitioners and researchers in both sport psychology and adventure education are discussed.