{"id":30093,"date":"2025-04-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/?post_type=article&#038;p=30093"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:14:07","slug":"with-the-right-support-at-the-right-time-women-athletes-can-make-successful-career-transitions","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/with-the-right-support-at-the-right-time-women-athletes-can-make-successful-career-transitions\/","title":{"rendered":"With the Right Support at the Right Time, Women Athletes Can Make Successful Career Transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- blocks\/hero-editorial -->\n<!-- inc\/hero-editorial -->\n<div class=\"hero es-hero__editorial hero--var-1\" role=\"banner\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1153072344-scaled.jpg);\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__overlay grad-overlay content-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <p class=\"es-label es-label--md\">\n                                23 Apr 2025                            <\/p>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\" class=\"theme-dark hero__back-link back-link es-label es-label--sm\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon icon--md icon--arrow-left\"><\/span>Articles<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero__title\">With the Right Support at the Right Time, Women Athletes Can Make Successful Career Transitions<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n        \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <section class=\"es-section theme-light hero__sidebar-wrapper container\">\n        <div class=\"hero__sidebar\">\n                            <div class=\"category-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Category<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/coaching-development-performance\/\" rel=\"tag\">Coaching &amp; 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Emily Defroand, the Football Communications Lead at West Ham United; and Emma Mitchell, who recently left her position as a Performance Lifestyle Advisor at the UK Sports Institute and who worked directly with the duo during their playing careers.<\/p>\n<p>Ansley and Defroand are former GB Hockey players, who won a wealth of medals between them. Ansley won Olympic gold and bronze, as well as Commonwealth gold, silver, and bronze. Defroand won a European bronze, as well as a Commonwealth bronze. Both have won many a domestic title too.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell, who won a PLx Award in 2023, won the 1994 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup playing for England and helped set up the Saracens women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the conversation, we delved into Mitchell\u2019s work and the realities for Ansley and Defroand as they began to transition in their careers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it\u2019s valued<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ansley knew she was aiming to leave post-Paris (2024) and began working with Mitchell post-Tokyo (2021). For her part, Defroand suffered multiple injuries where her body almost told her she needed to plan ahead.<\/p>\n<p>In reflecting on her playing days, Ansley said: \u201cIn fact, Emma Mitchell\u2019s role in Great Britain hockey and the impact that she had on me personally effectively changed my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell had experiences from a different sport, which helped her leverage her expertise around coaching the person. She became immersed in the team behind the team and working with the wider staff and athlete squad in the pursuit of a common goal. \u201cI don\u2019t think there&#8217;s anything more powerful than that in sport because everyone is committed to the same thing,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not necessarily a medal or winning a World Cup. It\u2019s bigger than that and it\u2019s something that\u2019s so unifying. It&#8217;s quite incredible in terms of engagement levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The realisation that playing a sport as a professional won\u2019t be an option forever meant it wasn\u2019t taken for granted. It also meant that they wanted to make the most of the opportunity and soak\u00a0 up learnings and conversations with practitioners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is how it works:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>There\u2019s been a shift from career coaching to managing transitions, which covers everything from someone joining the programme, to sustaining a long-term injury or any other significant change whilst in the programme, with extra emphasis on \u2018leaving well\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Leaving well tends to involve starting to plan early. It comes back to knowing each athlete\u2019s individual journey, and working at their pace. They have to own the process.<\/li>\n<li>Values exercises underpin much of the work. One of which involves spreading out many words that might represent someone\u2019s value and them collating those they feel most strongly align to themselves, and whether they\u2019re \u2018always valued\u2019 or \u2018less valued\u2019. <strong>And remember: it can be just important to know what you don\u2019t value<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Former athletes are invited to share how it worked for them, and hearing about a range of experiences with the process. Defroand said:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4><em>\u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong when I was at Bisham [the HQ of GB Hockey], I had absolutely no intention to retire at 26 but by being in the same room as athletes, some that have retired in their own terms, some that haven\u2019t, some of them that tried through selection or injury. Everyone\u2019s experiences are completely unique to themselves, but having heard from other athletes their first experiences of how their transition worked for them really helped me understand and know how complex that process is.\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Make the most of time when athletes can\u2019t play. For example, when they\u2019re injured. Using the network of athletes and people in the community, where there are so many people willing to help.<\/li>\n<li>Remember that many of the skills you learn through your sport are transferable, highly valued, and not as common as you think they are, such as discipline, teamwork, leading, and following.<\/li>\n<li>Peer to peer programmes with athletes from other sports and mentoring programmes. \u201cI still don\u2019t know how many people understand in the moment just how valuable these skills will be later in life, but just keep telling them that they really are,\u201d said Ansley.<\/li>\n<li>For Mitchell, it was important to get to know each person. There was a list of approximately 20 athletes who were seen as high potential, who GB Hockey wanted to make sure they stayed in the sport. Mitchell said:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4><em>\u201cI focused on those and had some success with some of those. It\u2019s just building up a little bit of success, building up good rapport with the group, being present in a lot of culture work, which I think is just so important. And then trying to work with each individual away from the performance environment to progress whatever it was they were looking to do.\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n<ol start=\"9\">\n<li>To also have someone who isn\u2019t a coach making decisions about selection have these conversations is powerful, as the athletes can open up further and know they\u2019re not there to deep dive into a specific skill or tactic. Defroand said:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4><em>\u201cRegardless of whether you come from that sport or not, it\u2019s about how we&#8217;re developing us as people rather than just the hockey player. [It\u2019s about] providing the safe space to talk and explore thoughts and work through challenging situations and developing other identities; being aware of other identities that are within you. Experiences that give you perspective and make you feel so lucky because you know you\u2019re in the sport for a certain amount of time and that that will be it. [This can be] so valuable.\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s missing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really don\u2019t think we should underestimate the impact that this sort of support during and after each transition can have,\u201d said Ansley. Not all sports get the excellent support that Mitchell has provided at GB Hockey. Providing the opportunity from an early stage of an athlete\u2019s career is critical, even if they don\u2019t engage with it immediately.<\/p>\n<p>With more athletes not postponing starting a family until the end of their athletic careers it\u2019s important to support this transition too.<\/p>\n<p>Support must be there for athletes so that when they do enter the working world they\u2019re not starting from the bottom again. Support must also be there for businesses to understand the transferability of an athlete\u2019s skills, as well as the fact that female athletes are coming from a very different context to male athletes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What can be done when resources are limited?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Think about those already in your staff that might be interested in developing in this area and could upskill themselves to provide some support and some signposting.<\/li>\n<li>Use former athletes to share their stories.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>What does it mean for others in roles supporting athletes?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even thinking about it shows a level of care that will be appreciated by athletes. Showing understanding, but also being accepting of each athlete being in their own place with their own mindset, especially when dealing with injuries. Some might want to make the best use of that time, whatever it may be. With others believing that the best use of their time and energy is to focus solely on recovering. Some roles are in a great place to have regular check-ins, with a different bond to that of a coach. A chat can go a very long way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make it stick to ensure it delivers an ROI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From Mitchell\u2019s perspective, part of the key to her success in her role came from GB Hockey choosing to embed the service within its programme philosophy. The original hire for the role came from GB Hockey\u2019s programme budget rather than UK Sport funding for the role, a true reflection of how much they valued the work.<\/p>\n<p>She also spoke about head coaches who didn\u2019t see the work as duty of care, but as performance enhancing if done well. It\u2019s helped extend careers, and support players enjoy an extra Olympic cycle because they dealt with what was coming next and the anxiety that can lead to.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of these conversations, and the work being done by performance lifestyle advisors, has on culture shouldn\u2019t go amiss, especially when the culture directly impacts performance in the view of the athletes.<\/p>\n<p>For the athletes, the work with Mitchell helped with their motivation and longevity. Both Defroand and Ansley shared that by completing exercises like the values one elevated their appreciation for their sport and the level they were competing at. It motivated them to train their best and unlocked new levels of effort to give. It helped refine their athletic goals, but also their goals beyond that. In early days working with Mitchell, former GB Hockey player Sarah Evans [who also joined us on the call], found that there was real benefit to doing the work on herself, to help with her confidence if dropped, and to ensure that she was working to get selected knowing how she could help the squad whether or not she was on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell said: \u201cMy feeling is that we all need a purpose and the type of people who are in sport at the elite level are incredibly driven so they will want to find something. It may never be quite the same as putting on a GB Hockey vest, but they want something that is fulfilling in a similar way. So helping them with that. And there&#8217;s research now that that actually demonstrates that athletes who engage in this type of work are likely to become the leaders in their sport and they are also likely to extend their careers, so it is actually seen as one of those that has a performance impact as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell also signposted Professor David Lavallee from University of Stirling, specifically his research on transition support and measuring impact. She said: \u201cWe now capture everything we do on one database and part of that is the numbers bit. To just demonstrate, the Paris cycle was three years. I think my colleague working with the men and I had approximately 3,000 interactions across the two squads. It&#8217;s a big time sync recording all of this, yeah. It\u2019s almost not justifying our existence, but it&#8217;s at least capturing some of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we also spoke about supporting athletes to stay in sport when their playing careers come to an end. Whilst there are all sorts of initiatives to try and encourage athletes into coaching positions and gaining coaching qualifications, or staying within sports (for example, UK Sport\u2019s Athlete to Coach programme), the reality is that even at international level coaching renumeration can be relatively low, and is naturally all consuming. For Mitchell, her role as a Performance Lifestyle Advisor was another way of deploying her coaching skills.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                    <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"col visibly-hidden col--flex-align-right\">\n                                            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":30094,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[22,20],"pathway":[375],"topic":[361,341,316,357],"sport":[300],"class_list":["post-30093","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-development-performance","category-leadership-culture-performance","pathway-planning-and-delivery","topic-collaborative-workflows","topic-interdisciplinary","topic-strategic-planning","topic-succession-planning","sport-olympic-paralympic-sports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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