The purpose of this study is to find out what kinds of role conflicts sports instructors, working at elementary schools, experience and how they cope with these role conflicts. For this, 142 sports instructors, attending the supplementary education held in the training institute of G university of education in 2015, were surveyed and the results were as follows. Firstly, sports instructors' role conflict was not high but at the average level. Secondly, male sports instructors were higher in the level of role conflict than females. Also, sports instructors in twenties showed higher level than any other age group. Furthermore, sports instructors who had working career from more than l year to less than 3 years indicated higher level than any other sports instructors. However, role conflicts according to gender, age, and working career were at the average level. Thirdly, role conflict caused by the system of sports instructors demonstrated high level in terms of the sub-factors composed of gender, age, and working career. Fourthly, related to gender, endeavor factor was applied to cope with individual, student guidance, and institutional role conflicts, and cooperation factor was dealt with to surmount role conflicts of working environment, human relation, communication, and duties by both males and females. Fifthly, related to age, endeavor factor was applied to overcome individual, student guidance, and institutional role conflicts, and cooperation factor was dealt with to overcome role conflicts of working environment, human relation, communication, and duties by thirty and forty. Finally, related to working career, endeavor factor was applied to deal with individual and student guidance role conflicts, and cooperation factor was used to manage role conflict of working environment regardless of working career. Also, cooperation factor was utilized to handle role conflicts of human relation, communication, duties by all sports instructors with the exception for those who had working career of less 1 year. In terms of institutional role conflict, cooperation factor was applied by those having working career of less 1 year and endeavor factor by those having working career from more than 1 year to less than 3 years. Also, endeavor and cooperation factors was employed by those having working career of more than 5 years.