Sport And Exercise Psychology: A Critical Introduction

Connecticut University), Noel McCaffrey (Dublin City University), Alan Ringland
(Institute of Technology, Tralee), P.J.Smyth (University of Limerick) and Mark Williams
(Liverpool John Moores University). I am also deeply indebted to my mentor and friend,
Bob Singer (University of Florida), for agreeing to write the foreword to this book—as
well as for his wonderful hospitality, stimulating ideas and tennis matches in the
University of Florida! Within University College, Dublin, special gratitude is extended to
my colleagues and friends in the Department of Psychology, especially, Ciaran Benson,
Nuala Brady, Alan Carr, Betty Cody, Mary Flaherty, Suzanne Guerin, Eilis Hennessy,
Mary Ivers, Geraldine Moane, Mick O’Connell, Mark O’Reilly and Chris Simms. I
would like to thank Ursula Byrne (Library), Philip Harvey (Campus Bookshop) and
Brian Mullins and his staff (UCD Sports Centre) for their friendship and support and also
the Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences, Pat Clancy, for his constant encouragement
of my work. Special gratitude is also extended to Ms Julitta Clancy for her painstaking
work in compiling the indexes for this book. Finally, I wish to acknowledge the love and
support that I have received from my mother, Nora, my girlfriend Angela, my brothers,
Ciaran and Dermot, my sister, Patricia, and her husband, Tom, my friends, especially,
Brendan Burgess, Neil Hogan, Dermot O’Halloran, Brendan O’Neill, and all my tennis
partners in Lansdowne Lawn Tennis Club.