Amanda Ottaway

Rebounders (eBook, ePUB)

A Division I Basketball Journey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Unlike the stories of most visible Division I college athletes, Amanda Ottaway's story has more in common with those of the 80 percent of college athletes who are never seen on TV. The Rebounders follows the college career of an average NCAA Division I women's basketball player in the twenty-first century, beginning with the recruiting process when Ottaway is an eager, naive teenager and ending when she's a more contemplative twentysomething alumna. Ottaway's story, along with the journeys of her dynamic Wildcat teammates at Davidson College in North Carolina, covers in engaging detail the life of a mid-major athlete: recruitment, the preseason, body image and eating disorders, schoolwork, family relationships, practice, love life, team travel, game day, injuries, drug and alcohol use, coaching changes, and what comes after the very last game. In addition to the everyday issues of being a student athlete, The Rebounders also covers the objectification of female athletes, race, sexuality, and self-expression. Most college athletes, famous or not, play hard, get hurt, fail, and triumph together in a profound love of their sport and one another, and then their careers end and they figure out how to move on. From concussions and minor injuries to classrooms, parties, and relationships, Ottaway understands the experience of a Division I women's basketball player firsthand. The Rebounders is, at its core, a feminist coming-of-age story, an exploration of what it means to be a young woman who loves a sport and is on a course of self-discovery through that medium.Purchase the audio edition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496205872
• Artikelnr.: 52246018

Autorenporträt

Amanda Ottaway attended Davidson College where she played basketball and majored in English. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, the Washington Post, espnW, VICE, Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, and elsewhere. She works as a journalist. 

Inhaltsangabe

Note to the Reader
Prologue
1. The Bubble
2. I Want You to Want Me
3. A Night with the ’Cats
4. Heading Home
5. Wet Season
6. Knocked Out
7. Sisterhood of the Traveling Sweatpants
8. A Postgame Surprise
9. A Team in Transition
10. Our Bodies, Everyone’s Business
11. Students or Athletes?
12. FTP
13. The Popularity Contest
14. The Dream
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography