Psicologia do esporte e o Cheerleading no curso de Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia: Relato de experiência

Abstract

This work aimed to highlight the importance of Sports Psychology and how its prior knowledge can help maintain the development of the capabilities of high-level athletes and sports teams. The factors that can motivate a person to start exercising, to continue exercising and the benefits that such action can provide for the individual's physical and mental health. The presence of academic sports entities and the great relevance they have within a university is evident, as they are among the biggest propagators of activities that encourage students to not stop practicing physical exercise. The presentation of Cheerleading, the growing emergence of university teams focused on this sport in Brazil and the establishment of these entities at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU). The presentation of the Volupta Cheerleading university team from the UFU Psychology course and the work carried out by the team, showing the challenges that the entity in question had to face between 2016 and 2019 through the eyes of a student of the course. The present study was structured based on a bibliographical survey of previously established essays and aims to attract more attention from researchers in relation to sports psychology and academic entities in view of the incipience of studies on the subject.