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ArticleSports (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Chaos Caused by Different Cutoff Dates: Relative Age Effects and Redshirting in Collegiate Volleyball in the United States.

Grace Redman, Scott Pierce, Adam Leigh Kelly

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Article in Sports (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Grace RedmanSchool of Kinesiology and Recreation, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61761, USA.
Scott PierceSchool of Kinesiology and Recreation, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61761, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5967-549X
Adam Leigh KellyResearch for Athlete and Youth Sport Development (RAYSD) Laboratory, Research Centre for Life and Sport Sciences (CLaSS), College of Life Sciences, Birmingham City University, Birmingham B15 3TN, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4929-1067

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Relative Age Effects (RAEs) are a phenomenon in athletics related to an over-representation of individuals born closer to an arbitrary cutoff date. Such effects have been shown in many different countries, levels of play, and contexts, although they are yet to be studied in volleyball within the United States, which is the second most popular high school girls' sport and the fastest growing high school and college sport for males. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine RAEs in college volleyball. Publicly available data were collected from the websites of women's Division I program (

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PMID39997984
PMCPMC11861495

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