Figueroa's Framework

Australia competes and does well in a wide variety of sports, because of this, improving access and equity in sports is a big issue for Australians. One level of Figueroa’s framework that impacts my access, opportunity, participation and overall enjoyment of volleyball at BSHS are the individual and institutional level. 3 factors from the individual level that impact me the most are; ability, confidence and time. Professor Peter Figueroa created “Figueroa’s Framework” to help people evaluate everything that might prevent athletes from performing at their best. There are 5 levels to the framework; individual, interpersonal, institutional, structural and cultural [1]. 2 of the levels that I have chosen to improve my experience with BSHS volleyball are the institutional and individual.
The individual level of Figueroa’s Framework impacts me because I believe that I need to improve my own personal ability. By improving my individual ability I will be able to access more opportunities to play volleyball. To improve my performance I would first need to improve my self confidence. Studies have shown that by improving confidence you also improve you performance. [2] By improving my performance I will then become more willing to make more time to play volleyball as I will enjoy it more. This will impact on my participation and enjoyment of volleyball because I will be more willing to participate because I will have more confidence, I will also enjoy volleyball more as I will have improved my skills. Improving my individual ability will not only impact on the individual level of Figueroa’s Framework, but will also improve the cultural and institutional because I will want to give other people the same experience as me by giving them my recommendations on the individual level.
The recommendations that I have made within the institutional level to improve everyone’s BSHS volleyball experience better is to have coaching and mini –games run by students for students at lunch