Jay Coakley, PhD

Jay Coakley is the Executive Director of CCSS and a Professor Emeritus in Sociology at UCCS. He is a world-leading sport sociologist. He was President of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (1991-1992), he won its Distinguished Service Award (1996), and he hosted its annual meeting in Colorado Springs in 2000. Jay’s seminal text Sport in Society: Issues and Controversies is now in its 13th edition and has been regionalized and published in Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and South Africa, and translated for scholars and students in Japan, China, South Korea, Croatia, and Turkey. He was the founding editor of the highly acclaimed Sociology of Sport Journal and was made an Honorary Fellow in the International Society for the Sociology of Sport. 

• Coakley, Jay, C. Keith Harrison & Jean Boyd. 2024. Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) opportunities for Black college athletes: Strategically facilitating academic achievement and successful career transitions. Journal of Higher Education, Athletics and Innovation (forthcoming).
• Poteko, Kaja, Jay Coakley, & Mojca Doupona. 2023. Elite athletes: what lessons for the future can be learned from their responses to the social disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic? Frontiers in Sports and Active Living 5:1260797. (November). DOI 10.3389/fspor.2023.1260797.
• Drole, Kristina, Armin Paravlic, Jay Coakley, & Mojca Doupona. 2023. Sport and academic engagement of 1,387 Slovenian dual-career athletes before and during
• COVID-19 lockdown—what did we learn? Frontiers in Psychology. 14:1173261. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1173261.
• Coakley, Jay. 2022. The future of sports and society: A reflection and call to action.” In Elizabeth C.J. Pike, ed. Research Handbook on Sports and Society (pp. 380-392). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Coakley, Jay. 2022. The future of sports and society: A reflection and call to action.” In Elizabeth C.J. Pike, ed. Research Handbook on Sports and Society (pp. 380-392). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Coakley, Jay. 2022. Neoliberalism and community sport coaching in the United States: Meeting challenges with an informed strategy. In Ben Ives, Paul Potrac, Laura Gale & Lee Nelson, eds. Community sport coaching: Policies and practice (pp. 25-44). London/New York: Routledge.
• Coakley, Jay. 2022. “Forward” In Lawrence Wenner, ed. Oxford handbook of sport and society, New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Travis E. Dorsch, Alan L. Smith, Jordan A. Blazo, Jay Coakley, Jean Côté, Christopher R. D. Wagstaff, Stacy Warner & Michael Q. King Coakley, Jay. 2022. Toward an integrated understanding of the youth sport system. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 93(1): 105-119.
• Coakley, Jay. 2021. Sociology of sport: Growth, diversification, and marginalization, 1981–2021. Kinesiology Review 10(3): 292-300. https://doi.org/10.1123/kr.2021-0017.
• Amoroso, José Pedro, Ricardo Rebelo-Gonçalves, Raul Antunes, Jay Coakley, Pedro Teques, João Valente-dos-Santos & Guilherme Eustáquio Furtado. 2021. Teamwork: A systematic review of implications from psychosocial constructs for research and practice in the performance of Ultimate Frisbee games. Frontiers in Psychology 12:712904 (August 27); DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712904.
• Amoroso, José P., Ricardo Rebelo-Gonçalves, Raul Antunes, Jay Coakley, João Valente-dos-Santos & Guilherme E. Furtado. 2021. Teamwork, Spirit of the Game and communication: A review of implications from sociological constructs for research and practice in Ultimate Frisbee games. Social Sciences 10(8): 300. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10080300.
• Coakley, Jay. 2021. Connecting with kinesiology: Observations of an outsider. Kinesiology Review 10(2): 133-139.
• Sanders, Ben & Jay Coakley. 2021. Levelling the playing field: Investing in grassroots sports as the best bet for sustainable development. In Joseph Maguire, Katie Liston & Mark Falcous, eds. Palgrave Handbook of Globalisation and Sport (pp. 529-556). London: Palgrave
• Harrison, C. Keith & Jay Coakley, eds. 2020. Hip-Hop and sport—An introduction: Reflections on culture, language, and identity. Special Issue- Sociology of Sport Journal 37(3): 235pp. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2020-0087.
• Coakley, Jay. 2020. The social construction of human enhancement: Implications for sports. In Katinka van de Ven, Kyle J. D. Mulrooney, Jim McVeigh, eds. Human Enhancement Drugs (pp.40-53). London & New York: Routledge.