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The Hazards of an Athletic Identity
Balance is s a key ingredient for effective living. Careful attention is required to juggle the life roles (work, parent, student, athlete, etc.) that define each of our unique selves. There are obvious benefits to sports participation, but not when the rest of your life is neglected. Overemphasis on one or two roles can disrupt […]
Balance is s a key ingredient for effective living. Careful attention is required to juggle the life roles (work, parent, student, athlete, etc.) that define each of our unique selves. There are obvious benefits to sports participation, but not when the rest of your life is neglected.
Overemphasis on one or two roles can disrupt effective balance, causing other roles to crash to the ground, resulting in grave damage to important things. I’m sure you’ve witnessed such occurrences, perhaps in your own life.
Businesspersons, so wrapped up in climbing the corporate ladder, their families become an afterthought.
People who neglect their own health, claiming they don’t have time. Life is short and if you do not exercise and take care of yourself, it will be much shorter.
The focus of this two-part series is the athletic role, especially as it relates to young people, and the damage that occurs when athletic over-involvement causes imbalance and neglect of other life endeavors.
Part I explores the devastating impact that too much investment in athletics can have and the role of parents, coaches, and social media in the creation of an athletic obsession. Part II delves into what can be done to empower a balanced, healthy life and prevent the damaging impact of an obsessed athletic life.
Why Focus on Athletes?
I’ve witnessed the mental anguish and other damage resulting from a sports-obsessed existence. Everything from clinical anxiety, burnout, depression, declining academic performance, wrecked relationships, and over-use physical injury. Most devastating is a lost-in-the-woods sense of purpose in life that can happen when an athletic career ends.
How did this pervasive problem develop, what does it look like, and what is the contribution of coaches, parents, and social media in creating this imbalanced mess?
Athletic Identity
That’s an actual term defined by Human Performance Coach John Haime as:
“The degree to which you identify with your sport. It’s how you come to perceive yourself, and how others perceive you, and also serves as a basis for your sense of self-worth.”
There’s nothing wrong with athletics being part of your identity, but when it’s your entire sense-of-self it’s problematic.
Self-induced pressure and disruptive performance anxiety can result from so much self-value being wrapped up in athletic identity. That’s why so many young athletes implode or explode when things in sports don’t go their way. Their athletic identity and self-worth have been ruptured.
They attempt to repair the rupture with excuses for their poor performance and other misfortune. Taking responsibility would be a major hit to their ego, so they try to avoid the emotional toll of their bruised self-esteem by blaming referees, field conditions, and even teammates for their miscues. It’s a phenomenon that’s gotten to be common in today’s youth sports culture.
Then there is what happens when an athletic career is threatened or ends. Disappointment and sadness is understandable and normal for athletes who have spent so much time and energy devoted to sports, but it can be devastating when all their eggs have been placed in the sports basket and the bottom falls out.
Mental ruin is exactly what can happen when an athletic career ends due to getting cut, injured, or deciding to leave a sport. Such the-sky-is-falling-in devastation is a relatively new and surprising phenomenon when it comes to youth athletes.
The Adult Contribution to Imbalance
Over-zealous coaches piling excessive demands on the plates of young athletes, and parents that passively go along with it. Non-stop practices, physical training sessions, games , and other team activities that can weigh down the plate of a young person’s life.
School, family, social, and other realms take a back seat and are disrupted with little to no time for much of anything beyond what coaches throw at them. Sports involved kids also have little time to devote to other interests. When asked how much time they have to themselves on a typical school day during a sports season, most young athletes reply that they have about 1-3 hours of freedom.
Many coaches now require year-round commitment to their sport. Traditional season boundaries have disappeared, complicating the ability to play more than one sport or become involved in other organized activities.
So much commitment to sports makes finding time to do homework, being with family or friends, and other things a Rubik’s Cube challenge.
Also contributing to a problematic athletic identity are coaches and parents leading kids into believing that all this committed time will lead them to a college or professional sport career. It could happen, but for 94% of high school athletes their sports career will go no further than high school. They are being unfairly led astray by manipulative coaches and naïve parents that fuel false hope and unrealistic expectations.
Social Media Impact
Young people have always vied for peer status, but social media has turned it into an obsession. Sports have become a common way to attract such attention. Kids spend countless hours posting pictures, videos, and messages focused on their athletic prowess. Facebook moms and dads fall prey to similar behavior.
I have previously written about the poisonous impact of social media on youth. Suffice it to say that social media has contributed to an overemphasis on athletic identity, life imbalance, and the damage sustained by youth. Many of them base their entire being on social media, creating hazards for all young people, not just athletes.
Much of the toxicity derives from people comparing themselves on social media to their peers. As President Theodore Roosevelt wisely observed, “comparison is the thief of joy.” Joy has certainly been stolen from young athletes who live on an emotional roller coaster, battling for social media status with their athletic identity.
The Net Result
Such obsessed athletic identity breeds over-use physical injury, and a relentless fear of failure. A distaste for a previously enjoyed sport can evolve and lead to eventual burnout and/or quitting. Neglect of school, friends, family, and other life roles can ensue.
Then there’s the damage done to many young athletes when their sports career ends. Many of those kids are devastated. They have no idea what to do with their new free time because they’ve never had that kind of time to themselves and don’t know how or what to do with it.
I have witnessed a wide swath of high school and college athletes that have given no thought to what they would do with their lives after their school and athletic career ends. They draw a complete blank when asked about their career plans. It’s as though they expected their athletic careers to last a lifetime. Many of them experience severe anxiety and depression reflecting on a perceived empty future.
What’s the Cure?
That question will be addressed in a sequel to this piece. In the meantime, please reflect on the current content and related material contained in the link provided. Employ your creative resources to generate a plan of attack as a coach, parent, or other adult stakeholder to remedy athletic identity imbalance and associated problems.
Also, please delete your social media platforms.
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KYDC seminars The Kinzua Youth Development Center will sponsor a Sport Development Camp scheduled for June 23-26 from 10-11:15 a.m. at the KYDC Center, 200 Struthers St. The camp activities are provided at no cost to participants, and the curriculum is designed for children ages 6 to 11. The focus of this camp is for […]
KYDC seminars
The Kinzua Youth Development Center will sponsor a Sport Development Camp scheduled for June 23-26 from 10-11:15 a.m. at the KYDC Center, 200 Struthers St. The camp activities are provided at no cost to participants, and the curriculum is designed for children ages 6 to 11. The focus of this camp is for children to develop the basic locomotor/movement skills needed to become a scholastic/collegiate athlete or at the very least to become a “competent mover” who can enjoy sport throughout life.
Dr. Dan McLaughlin, a professor at Wingate University in Charlotte, North Carolina, will lead the camp activities and he will be assisted by several area high school athletes. Dr. McLaughlin is a former college tennis player/coach and was recently named college physical education teacher of the year in North Carolina.
Parents interested in registering their children should go to https://kinzuawrestlingclub.com/kydc-sport-development-camp and enroll them and sign an online participation/waiver agreement. The camp is limited to 30 children.
Dr. McLaughlin will also present an educational seminar for parents and youth sport coaches on how to develop athletic abilities during the early stages of life, childhood through adolescence. The seminar will be held on Wednesday, June 25 from 6-8 p.m. at the KYDC, 200 Struthers St.
The seminar will discuss issues like: How soon is it too soon to compete? How often should a child train and at what intensity? Are children to be coached as “mini-adults?” What is the optimal age to specialize in a sport? And finally, why is it that 70% of youngsters quit sport by age 14?
On Tuesday, June 24, from 6-8 p.m., Dr. McLaughlin will host a leadership seminar for high school athletes who are leaders on their scholastic sport teams. The seminar designed for those in the “captain roles” will be held at the KYDC, 200 Struthers St.
The seminar will discuss the role of leaders on a sport team. Please email drdennisajohnson@gmail.com or call 704-989-2520 for questions and/or to reserve a spot at the event.
Softball
Week 6 Game Results:
United Refining Co. d. Hickory Creek Brewing Co. 10-5
Blue Collar Outdoors USA d. United Refining Co. 11-9
Blue Collar Outdoors USA d. S&K Scope Mounts 16-6
Donato Drink Works d. Benchwarmers 2.0 23-11
BHHS Regional Realty d. Hair by Flora 18-1
Standings:
BHHS Regional Realty 5-0
Blue Collar Outdoors USA 6-1
Hickory Creek Brewing Co. 3-2
Donato Drink Works 3-2
S&K Scope Mounts 3-4
United Refining Co. 3-4
Hair by Flora 2-3
Benchwarmers 2.0 0-6
Home Run Leaders:
Chris Johnson, Blue Collar Outdoors USA (8), Hunter Geckle, BHHS Regional Realty (7), Derrick Harper, Blue Collar Outdoors USA (6), Jake Sleasman, Blue Collar Outdoors USA (6), TJ Latimer, BHHS Regional Realty (5), Matt Leonard, United Refining Co. (5), Kolten Johnson, Hair by Flora (4), Mark Sprandle, Blue Collar Outdoors USA (3), James Frazier, Hair by Flora (3), Aldon Hulings, S&K Scope Mounts (3)
Week 7 Schedule:
FOLEY
6:30 p.m.: S&K Scope Mounts vs. BHHS Regional Realty
7:45 p.m.: Hair by Flora vs. Benchwarmers 2.0
BETTS
6:30 p.m.: United Refining Co. vs. Donato Drink Works
7:45 p.m.: Blue Collar Outdoors USA vs. Hickory Creek Brewing Co.
9 p.m.: Hair by Flora vs. Hickory Creek Brewing Co.
Golf leagues
RUSSELL — Park Avenue Motor Car leads the Park Avenue Motor Car Men’s Senior League at Blueberry Hill Golf Club after this week’s action with 157.5 points.
Team 6 is second with 155.5 points, followed by Fuzz’s Nutz (148.5), Top Shelf (148), R&W Truck Service (147), Fearsome Foursome (142), Sheffield Timber (142), Morning Sun (136.5), Team 18 (135.5), NAPA Auto Parts (132.5), Team 7 (132.5), The Shockers (131.5), Team 4 (131), United Refining (127.5), Sheffield Rod & Gun (126.5), The Patriots (122.5), Mt. Laurel FCU (120.5) and Gary’s Golf Shop (111).
Mark Silvis and Jeff White each made two birdies while Randy Christensen, Rusty Zigler, Byron Jespersen and Bill Petransky each made one.
Silvis shot the low gross with a 37 while Bryan Moldovan, Denny Stewart, Ken Reiff and Steve Brown all had net 31s.
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WARREN — Eagles Club leads the Tuesday Night League at Jackson Valley Golf Course with 192 points.
Sons of the Legion is second with 180.5 points, followed by Shaw House (180), KCS Energy (176.5) and 4-Score (173).
Lance Bailey and Steve Arnold each accumulated 9 points this week. Larry Salapek earned 8.5 points while Bill Hodge, Randy Dickey and Steve Crissey each earned 7.5 points.
Rob Ritchie led the front nine with a 37 and Jesse McMichael led the back nine with a 38. Among seniors, Mark Silvis led the front nine with a 37 and Salapek led the back nine with a 37.
Noah Turzillo led the net scoring on the front nine with a 33 and DJ Rose led the back nine with a 35. For the seniors, Dudley Nollinger, Pat Ross and Dickey each had a net 34 on the front nine. On the back nine, Don Smith had a net 33.
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LAKEWOOD, N.Y. — Tim Sandberg’s 37 led the Youngsville Senior League at Maplehurst Country Club.
Randy Abplanalp led the net scores with a 28.
Sandberg made two birdies while Ron Holmes, Al Ludwick, Pete Hofert and Bob Yichang each made one. Jon Steffan made the longest putt at No. 15.
Gross: Jon Steffan 38, Ray Adams 42, Ron Holmes 42, Rod Korbar 42, Al Ludwick 42, Gary VanGuilder 42
Net: Ray Adams 29, Jon Steffan 32, Don Thomas 32
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WARREN — John Lipthard and Mike Lewis combined for 27 points to lead the Stableford League at Jackson Valley Golf Course.
Patrick Lund and Rick Woodcock were second with 24 points. Skete Williams teamed up with Neil Rounds and Cale Albaugh teamed up with Craig Tidrick for 23 points apiece.
Individually, Lewis led the way with 17 points while Red Childress, Lund and Jim Munksgard each had 15.
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NBA rising star Brandon Miller hosts annual basketball camp for kids in hometown
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — One of the NBA’s brightest young stars is giving back to his hometown right here in Middle Tennessee. Charlotte Hornets star Brandon Miller is back at his alma mater, Cane Ridge High School, working with kids at his annual youth basketball camp. Over 100 basketball hopefuls between the ages of 9 […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — One of the NBA’s brightest young stars is giving back to his hometown right here in Middle Tennessee.
Charlotte Hornets star Brandon Miller is back at his alma mater, Cane Ridge High School, working with kids at his annual youth basketball camp.
Over 100 basketball hopefuls between the ages of 9 and 14 showed up at this year’s camp, and Miller says getting an opportunity to give back to his high school and the community of Antioch is a dream come true.
“You don’t really see an NBA player come back to Antioch, Tennessee — come to their high school and start camps for kids. You know, it’s for them to get better, to learn. So, why not teach them?” said Miller.
Miller, who was the number two overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft has a simple message for his campers: Be yourself and, above all, have fun — a motto he says has helped him navigate through the NBA.
“Everybody thinks this game of basketball should be something serious — game every day. But, I think, you know, when you put fun into the game, build a routine every day to just keep having fun with it, with the game that you love…I feel like if you don’t have fun with it, why do it?” said Miller.
Among the special guests at this year’s camp was Tyrone “Muggsy” Bouges, who starred in the NBA despite being just 5 feet 4 inches tall. Muggsy says he’s impressed with how the 22-year-old Miller has taken the initiative to make a difference in his home town.
“Coming back to his hometown, giving these kids this type of experience on this platform — I mean, it’s everything. I’m just thankful and grateful that he asked me to come and take part in it,” said Bouges.
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Longtime breakfast tradition continues for friends who met through Big Brothers Big Sisters mentorship
This is a beautiful story of chosen family, proving a father figure doesn’t have to have biology in common to make a difference in a child’s life. The story of De’Andre and Alex will remind you that our relationships help determine the course of our lives. And that being supportive of someone – through a meal, a shared experience or even swim lessons can make all the difference.
– Rebecca Schleicher
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Thunder youth movement on verge of history
On this date, in 2016, the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the 73-win Golden State Warriors in a classic Game 7 to secure their NBA championship and became the first team to overcome a 3-1 deficit in the finals. By doing so, the Cavaliers also became Cleveland’s first major professional sports team to win a title since […]
On this date, in 2016, the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the 73-win Golden State Warriors in a classic Game 7 to secure their NBA championship and became the first team to overcome a 3-1 deficit in the finals.
By doing so, the Cavaliers also became Cleveland’s first major professional sports team to win a title since the 1964 Browns. The Cavaliers-Warriors 2016 finals series marked the first time in NBA history both teams entered Game 7 with the same exact number of points (610). The deciding matchup itself included 20 lead changes and 11 ties as Cleveland won 93-89.
LeBron James, who crafted a 27-point, 11-rebound, 11-assist triple-double, secured his third career NBA Finals MVP after becoming the first player ever to lead all players in a playoff series in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks. Kyrie Irving chipped in 26 points and six rebounds, including a crucial go-ahead bucket over Stephen Curry with 53 seconds remaining. Although Kevin Love finished with only nine points on nine shots, his lockdown defense on the 2016 unanimous MVP also helped make the Cavaliers champions and wrapped one of the best playoff series of all time.
But like any series worth remembering, highlights are required. Enter James’ season-saving and legacy-altering block on Andre Iguodala with the game tied at 89. One needs to only read Mike Breen’s call of the moment to instantly relive it:
“Iguodala to Curry, back to Iguodala, up for the layup! Oh! Blocked by James! LeBron James with the rejection!”
By game’s end, James, who was born in Akron, Ohio, developed into a high school phenom at St. Vincent-St. Mary’s and spent the first seven seasons of his NBA career with the Cavaliers before winning two titles in four seasons with the Miami Heat, couldn’t contain his excitement for delivering an NBA title to his home state.
“I set out a goal two years ago, but I came back to bring a championship to this city.” James explained after Game 7. “I gave everything that I had. I put my heart and my blood and my sweat and my tears to this game. Against all odds, kept that same positive attitude. Instead of saying, ‘Why me?’ I just said, ‘This is what they want me to do.’
Cleveland! This is for you!”
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SCVNews.com | Santa Clarita Volunteer Youth Basketball Coaches Needed
Old Town Newhall will host a “Sip into Summer” Bar Crawl, 8 p.m. Saturday, June 21 on Main Street. I wanted to share a quick legislative update from Sacramento. We recently reached the deadline to send bills from the Senate to the Assembly in order to continue moving them through the legislative process this session. […]
Old Town Newhall will host a “Sip into Summer” Bar Crawl, 8 p.m. Saturday, June 21 on Main Street.
I wanted to share a quick legislative update from Sacramento. We recently reached the deadline to send bills from the Senate to the Assembly in order to continue moving them through the legislative process this session.
The city of Santa Clarita is seeking Youth Basketball Coaches for the 2025 summer season.
Love the outdoors? Passionate about community programs? The city of Santa Clarita is hiring part-time Recreation Leaders to help bring events, camps and nature programs to life at William S. Hart Park.
Harley-Davidson Santa Clarita will host a performance suspension workshop, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, June 28 with a Q and A with experts from OHLINS Factory.
California Institute of the Arts was recently named in The Hollywood Reporter’s inaugural Top Animation Schools list for 2025.
ARTree Community Arts Center in collaboration with Santa Clarita Public Library are seeking teen volunteers to help create a bottle cap mural.
City of Santa Clarita Public Library will host “Party at the Park” 4-5 p.m. Wednesday, June 25 at Duane R. Harte Park.
Summer is here in the Santa Clarita Valley and with it comes increased use of backyard swimming pools to beat the heat. The Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency is offering up to a $200 pool cover rebate.
Pre-registration for the Michael Hoefflin Foundation for Children’s Cancer’s newest fundraiser, “Cheers for Charity” will end Monday, June 30.
JCI Santa Clarita has announced nominations for the 2025 Santa Clarita Valley 40 Under Forty are now open.
Few traditions bring our community together quite like the Santa Clarita Valley Fourth of July Parade.
The Santa Clarita Public Library has something for everyone this summer, including young children, teens and older adults.
Zumper has released its Los Angeles Metro Area Report detailing several factors across 26 cities.
The Santa Clarita Public Library Valencia branch will host a “Teen Game Day: Intro to Dungeon and Dragons” workshop, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 24.
Olive Branch Theatricals has announced the launch of The Encore Society’s “Guys & Dolls” workshop, marking a milestone as the first seniors-only musical theater program in the Santa Clarita Valley.
Child & Family Center has announced that staff members Heidi Viramontes, LCSW Program Coordinator II, Early Childhood and Multidisciplinary Assessment Team and Sommer Mneimne, LCSW Clinical Supervisor Outpatient Services, have completed the 2024-2025 UCLA Early Childhood Fellowship sponsored by the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health in collaboration with the UCLA Prevention Center of Excellence.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health cautions residents who are planning to visit the below Los Angeles County beaches to avoid swimming, surfing, and playing in ocean waters:
The Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission is inviting members of the public to fill out a brief online survey about their interactions with deputies they believe to be members of deputy gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and to offer their feedback.
To assess the potential air quality impacts of ongoing debris removal efforts near the Palisades and Eaton Fire areas, the South Coast Air Quality Management District conducted initial mobile monitoring surveys to detect airborne pollutants, including toxic metals and volatile organic compounds.
The County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation is excited to announce that enrollment is open for the Summer 2025 Junior Lake Lifeguard Program for youth ages 9-17.
The California Highway Patrol joined more than 100 law enforcement agencies and major retailers for a multi-day, National Organized Retail Crime Blitz.
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JHMR youth camp offers great way to gain bike confidence
A newsletter for local events, community happenings, and more… JACKSON, Wyo. — For the little rippers around town: Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and JH Sports are hosting bike camps this summer that will teach children to better handle the demands of more technical mountain bike riding. The JH Sports Youth Bike Camp offers a convenient […]
JACKSON, Wyo. — For the little rippers around town: Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and JH Sports are hosting bike camps this summer that will teach children to better handle the demands of more technical mountain bike riding.
The JH Sports Youth Bike Camp offers a convenient way to give young cyclists the confidence needed to explore the terrain that Jackson Hole has to offer. The five-day camp is perfect for bikers age 7 to 13 who are physically and mentally ready to spend five full days of supervised mountain biking. Participants must be able to ride a 20″ bike, confidently operate hand brakes and balance safely on their bike — both seated and while standing on the pedals. For riders ages 3 to 5, JHMR is hosting a one-time Learn to Pedal Bike Camp from June 30 to July 3.
The camps will run Monday through Friday every week until the end of August. Please note: Parents must be available to pick their child up from camp in the event of injury, illness or rain cancellation.
JHMR is proud to offer small group instruction from their professionally trained mountain bike coaches: each camp is limited to five riders. Each day the campers will work toward mastering the skills required to be a well-rounded mountain biker. Mornings begin with trail riding and skills practice, followed by an afternoon in the Jackson Hole Bike Park, or on one of the world-class trails, to focus on that day’s specific skills. Coaches will track participants’ daily progress in order to keep parents informed of ability level and advancement.
The bike camp focuses on these 10 skills over the five days:
- Braking
- Body position/bike-body separation
- Berm cornering
- Flat cornering
- Jumping/popping
- Pumping/weighting and unweighting the bike
- Climbing
- Track stand
- Drops
- Technical trails/line choice
Bike rentals and lift tickets are not included.
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European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation
Member of the EU Commission The European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation is a member of the European Commission. The portfolio was previously titled European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport until 2019 when it was merged with the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation to form its current title. The portfolio […]
Member of the EU Commission
The European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation is a member of the European Commission. The portfolio was previously titled European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport until 2019 when it was merged with the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation to form its current title.
The portfolio is responsible for policies in education and training, youth, sport, civil society, and culture. The commissioner leads the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture.
History of the portfolio
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Commissioner Ján Figeľ was approved by the European Parliament in 2004 as the European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism. This was enlarged since the Prodi Commission with the addition of training and multilingualism (The Directorate-General is still just Directorate-General for Education and Culture).
However, when Romania joined the European Union on 1 January 2007, responsibility for multilingualism was handed over to the new Romanian commissioner, Leonard Orban. In its place the portfolio now also includes youth, sport and civil society. Figeľ describes his position is very orientated to “the citizens and their quality of life”.[1]
The commission has become increasingly active in education. The ERASMUS programme, which was established in 1987, is a student exchange programme promoting mobility of students between European universities. The Bologna process aims to create a European Higher Education Area where academic qualifications can be recognised across Europe. The European Institute of Technology is a proposed research university.
With the 2014 inauguration of the Juncker Commission, the portfolio was once again renamed – multilingualism was removed in favour of citizenship: “Education, Culture, Youth and Citizenship”. Citizenship in turn was soon replaced by sport.[2][3] The title from 2014 to 2019 was thus European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport. The portfolio from 2019 is named European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation.
List of commissioners
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The previous portfolio to the current was Culture, merged with Audiovisual policy and EP relations.
| No. | Picture | Commissioner | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Party | Country | Commission |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viviane Reding (born 1951) |
13 September 1999 | 21 November 2004 | 5 years, 69 days | CSV |  Luxembourg |
Prodi | |
| 2 | Dalia Grybauskaitė (born 1956) |
1 May 2004 | 11 November 2004 | 194 days | Independent |  Lithuania |
Prodi | |
| 3 | Ján Figeľ (born 1960) |
22 November 2004 | 1 October 2009 | 4 years, 313 days | KDH |  Slovakia |
Barroso | |
| 4 | Maroš Šefčovič (born 1966) |
1 October 2009 | 9 February 2010 | 131 days | PES | Slovakia |
Barroso | |
| 5 | Androulla Vassiliou (born 1943) |
9 February 2010 | 1 November 2014 | 4 years, 265 days | EDI |  Cyprus |
Barroso | |
| 6 | Tibor Navracsics (born 1966) |
1 November 2014 | 30 November 2019 | 5 years, 29 days | Fidesz |  Hungary |
Juncker | |
| 7 | Mariya Gabriel (born 1979) |
1 December 2019 | 15 May 2023 | 3 years, 166 days | GERB |  Bulgaria |
Von der Leyen | |
| 8 | Iliana Ivanova (born 1975) |
19 September 2023 | 30 November 2024 | 1 year, 72 days | GERB | Bulgaria |
Von der Leyen | |
| 9 | Ekaterina Zaharieva (born 1975) |
1 December 2024 | Incumbent | 201 days | GERB | Bulgaria |
Von der Leyen II |
- ^ Ján Figeľ European Commission
- ^ “Background paper N° 1” (PDF). EOC EU Office. November 2014.
previously named “Education, Culture, Youth and Multilingualism” (Commissioner Vassiliou) and now to be called “Education, Culture, Youth and Citizenship”. The Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Tibor Navracsics, had been designated by Juncker to be in charge of this portfolio
- ^ “European Commissioner of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Tibor Navracsics”. The Orange Files. 2013.
Navracsics was originally nominated to the post of Commissioner of Education, Culture, Youth and Citizenship, though European Commission President Juncker chose to divest Navracsics of the latter domain and assign him the responsibility to oversee issues related to sports instead
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