ABSTRACT
The rates of abuse being reported in media and sport research are alarming, showing that athletes across levels (e.g., amateur sport contexts, elite sport contexts, disability sport contexts) and sports are being subjected to multiple forms of athlete maltreatment (e.g., neglect, psychological abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse). Although abuse has been shown to be widespread, little is known about what occurs for athlete abuse victims post-sport (i.e., post-sport embodiment), specifically the ways in which their abuse experiences impact their everyday lives, such as in motherhood. Understanding what occurs for athlete abuse victims post-sport, particularly during motherhood, is important because in abuse research outside of sport, it has been reported that those subjected to abuse during their childhood/adolescence are more likely than non-exposed individuals to recycle abusive behaviors like what they were exposed to. In this chapter, creative analytical practices are used to present one athlete abuse victim's lived experiences across two-time frames, namely her adolescent elite swimmer experiences and her now motherhood experiences of a child involved in the amateur context of swimming. The two-time frames are presented to identify whether her athlete experiences of abuse are being recycled, resisted, or reconfigured in motherhood. The reader is encouraged to construct their own understanding of the stories presented and look for possible connections across the two-time frames.
