One hundred years ago at the University of Illinois, Coleman Griffith became the first academic to conduct systematic research into sport psychology. His interests concerned learning sports skills and relationships between personality and sports performance. It seems fitting therefore to address the definitions and major theories around personality in sport, drawing upon a range sporting examples that are relevant to all examining boards.
Given that it is also 30 years since the first A-level PE students completed the course, these examples will be drawn from the last three decades of outstanding sporting achievement (Table 1).
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