In Pursuit of the "Full Ride": American Athletic Scholarships and Mobility, Sport and Childhood in Canada

Authors

  • Noel Dyck Simon Fraser University

Keywords:

athletic scholarships, youths, parents, movement, Canada, United States

Abstract

This paper examines the pursuit by Canadian youths
of athletic scholarships offered by American colleges and uni-
versities, situating their individual efforts within longstanding
family projects of child rearing as well as the operations of local
sport organizations. Asking why and how the prestige attached
in Canada to American athletic scholarships continues to be
upheld despite ample evidence of problems associated with this
means of obtaining an undergraduate education, the analysis
focuses upon the ways in which Canadian youth athletes in the
U.S., parents, coaches and college officials play their respective
parts in sustaining a distinctive form of coming of age.

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Published

2022-03-11

How to Cite

Dyck, N. (2022). In Pursuit of the "Full Ride": American Athletic Scholarships and Mobility, Sport and Childhood in Canada. Anthropologica, 53(1), 53–66. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/985

Issue

Vol. 53 No. 1 (2011): Changes of Place: Interrogating the Continuities and Disjunctures of Movement

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Copyright (c) 2011 Noel Dyck

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