Abstract
To date no academic research has been conducted to study peer leadership with an opportunity to explore how peer leaders affect player motivation and a player’s sense of team cohesion on a varsity baseball team. This study will provide a data analysis based on one-on-one interviews with varsity baseball players representing one of six high schools in the Portland Oregon Metro-area for data collection. An evidence-based solution will be presented as a result of the data collection and data analysis conducted during the dissertation study period.|Keywords: academic research, peer leadership, motivation, team cohesion, varsity baseball, data analysis, evidence-based solution