Volume 8, Issue 3 will be the last to publish manuscripts under the headings of Best Practices, Insights, and Coaching In.Starting in 2022 (Volume 9), manuscripts that focus on best practices of efforts, ideas, or evidence-based guidelines that can be used to improve coaching, those that focus on well-reasoned and effectively articulated insights and commentaries intended to stimulate thought about coaching, and perspectives of coaching and coach education in different countries and cultures will be categorized under the umbrella term of Practical Advances (International Sport Coaching Journal [ISCJ], 2021a).This new heading will allow for greater flexibility of submissions that are partially data driven to practitioner informed, while not losing the practical nature of these submissions.We will continue to have 70-80% of each issue devoted to Original Research studies, and 20-30% of each issue dedicated to Practical Advances.All papers, with the rare exception of invited papers, will undergo double-blind peer review.While adopting a strongly applied orientation, papers published under the heading of Practical Advances will still be written in an academic style that includes citations, as well as other applied evidence, to support and develop ideas.Thus, Practical Advances will encompass International Sport Coaching Journal (ISCJ) legacy article types of Best Practices, Insights, and Coaching In (ISCJ, 2021a).This evolution comes alongside a revision to ISCJ's mission.The revision brings into focus ISCJ's interest in expanding understanding of the coaching process, coaching environment, coach education and development, coaching practices, and coaching profession.Therefore, the mission is to advance the research and development of sport coaching worldwide.This mission is pursued through a specific focus on the practice and process of coaching, with consideration also given to the many factors that influence coaching.Thus, ISCJ publishes peer-reviewed, scientific research studies and articles on practical advances about, with, and for coaches (ISCJ, 2021c).In Volume 8, Issue 3, along with a series of original research articles, coaching in, best practices, and insights, we are publishing an invited article that is intended to showcase ISCJ as a nonproprietary venture of the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE).This article outlines a transparent process of the ICCE's Research Committee in developing, implementing, and reporting the findings of a consultation process and proposal for governance and service agenda.In this invited article, the Research Committee broadly connects the current state of the field of sport coaching research to the ICCE specifically.This project began during discussions at the Research Fair for the ICCE's Global Coach Conference in Japan 2019 (North et al., 2021).Sport coaching is a relatively young field of research and growing in popularity.The analogy is that it is now a "teenager," as far as fields of research go.Using that analogy, we can think about its current state and project into the future as it moves through this adolescent phase.We often advocate for children's multisport sampling.Into athletes'
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Bettina Callary (2021) studied this question.