An explorative study on the perceptions of cricket players regarding development of life skills in student-athletes at a university in the Western Cape

Abstract

Sport-based youth development programme expose youth to prearranged sports and physical activity practices that explicitly concentrate on the development of personal and social life skills, along with physical development. The significance of this study in the field of life skills education at a tertiary institution where this study has been conducted assesses a student-athlete development programme with a primary focus on life skills promotion amongst cricket players at a university in the Western Cape Province. In the current climate of sports education, Sport-based youth development programmes purposefully draw on sport and physical activity contexts as the method for attaining positive youth development. The relevance of developing life skills in student-athletes is, therefore, pointed out in this research as it is clear that student-athletes require a range of both sport-specific and life skills.