Within the realm of sports, coaches and athletes take centre stage as the main actors. The interactions between the coaches and athletes as main actors assume paramount significance due to their impact on the nature and quality of the athletes’ sporting development and experience. The close interactions between coach and athlete are the focal point of this research. This study seeks to explore coaches’ perceptions of their reputational influence on athlete creativity. We conducted this study with coaches (n = 15) across various sporting disciplines and professional levels to gain a better understanding of their perceived reputational influence on athlete creativity. We employed semi-structured interviews to collect data with the freedom to explore and examine significant responses given by the participants. The findings suggest that coaches understand and acknowledge that their reputation is an essential element in influencing athlete creativity, and that coaches and athletes are locked into a two-person (dyadic) relationship, and its quality is the measure of coaching efficacy. Our study expands the understanding of coaching reputation by highlighting its effects on athlete creativity. It additionally sheds light on how the coach-athlete relationship is influenced by the coach's reputation and how athletes respond in terms of their behaviour and attitude.
Asare et al. (Mon,) studied this question.