The Making of High Performance Athletes: Discipline, Diversity, and Ethics

Virginia Gillham is university librarian at Wilfrid Laurier University.

The Making of High Performance Athletes is an academic treatise, rather
than a popular treatment of its subject matter. The author is an
academic with a background in athletic coaching and periods of exposure
to faculties of education, physical education, leisure studies, and
women’s studies. Her discussion of the roles of gender, discipline,
and the pursuit or use of power in athletic performance is grounded in
an analysis of ethics. Supplemented with nearly 30 pages of notes and
references, this slim volume belongs in the libraries of coaches,
professional sport directors and administrators, high-performance
athletes, and academic institutions that offer studies in human
kinetics, psychology, sociology, or women’s studies.