Building Coactive Sport Teams: From Leadership to Coaction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781032996929)

Jo Line, PhD, is the Program Director for Community-Engaged Research and Learning and a lecturer at Oberlin College, US who has spent over a decade studying sport from a socio-cultural perspective. They are the Athletics Inclusive Climate and Belonging Senior Specialist for the nonprofit Athlete Ally, consulting with college and university athletic departments nationwide to promote LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sport. They apply an intersectional approach to examine facilitators and barriers to athletes' participation in and enjoyment of sport, with the aim of encouraging inclusive and collaborative team cultures that enable every team member to thrive. Jo's expertise in engaging team members in coaction is informed by their personal experience navigating competitive and recreational sport environments around the world as a soft-spoken synergistic nonbinary queer white competitive distance runner, coaching NCAA Division I, NCAA Division III, USCAA, and post-collegiate competitive and recreational athletes, and their academic training in Exercise and Sport Studies and American Culture Studies. Jo is dedicated to helping coaches nurture athletes' individual and collective capacity by encouraging athletes to identify and apply their unique strengths while working toward team goals.