FALL 2012
KINESIOLOGY This fall our new direct-admit four-year undergraduate major in Kinesiology officially admitted its first class. The University received 28,274 applications for the 3,360 spots in the Class of 2015, making this the most competitive year in the institution’s history. The most competitive program to be admitted to this year was the new Kinesiology program, with an 11 percent admission rate. We currently have 168 kinesiology majors, which includes 103 students in the last cycle of the two-year program and 65 students in the new four-year program. In the four-year program students begin to take courses in their major during the first semester. Over the next four years students have more time to explore their career options, take more advanced coursework, and become involved in preprofessional and program activities. For more information on the new four-year direct-admit Kinesiology program, go to curry.virginia.edu/ kinesiology-bsed
Editor: Luke Kelly, Director Kinesiology Program Kinesiology is published by the Curry School of Education and is sponsored by the Curry School of Education Foundation, P.O. Box 400276, Charlottesville, VA 22904 curry.virginia.edu/kinesiology-newsletter
Service, Scholarship, Leadership
Curry alumni excel in their professions Recent Grad Opens Nonprofit Gym Laura Pritchard (B.S.Ed. ‘09, M.Ed. ‘10)
Imagine living in a neighborhood where the nearest grocery store is over a half hour’s ride on the city bus. Where criminal activity takes place openly in plain sight of children playing in the streets. Where recreational running in the neighborhood is not an option and there are no public places for organized exercise. These are the conditions Laura Pritchard observed in an Atlanta neighborhood called The Bluff when as a second-year at U.Va. she took a year-long break from courses to do community service work. A dream began to formulate in her mind—a plan to help ameliorate the exercise and nutrition injustices she had observed. The dream stayed with the southwestern Virginia native as she went on to complete a graduate degree in exercise physiology. It followed her as she worked with two national championship U.Va. tennis teams as their strength and conditioning coach. In 2010 she moved to Atlanta and found a house across the street from Booker T. Washington High School, where Martin Luther King, Jr., attended as a youth. Little did she know that her vision would become reality so quickly. Last January she opened a non-profit gym called Urban Perform located in English Avenue in a renovated warehouse owned by New Life Covenant Church. Pritchard is the gym’s executive director and chief fundraiser, as well as fitness instructor. P HOTO BY F RE D P E RRY
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Read more of Laura’s story at curry.virginia.edu/kinesiology-newsletter
Early Career Success: Patrick McKeon (Ph.D. ‘07) Patrick McKeon, PhD, ATC, CSCS, is well on his way to a stellar academic career. After joining the University of Kentucky’s College of Health Sciences as an assistant professor of athletic training in 2007, he received the 2009 Doctoral Dissertation Award from the National Athletic Trainer’s Association Research & Education Foundation. The award recognized the significance of his research on a four-week progressive balance training program designed to challenge individuals’ abilities to balance on one leg. The —continued on page 2
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program improved gait, balance, and quality of life for those with chronic ankle instability. Only the year before, he and co-author Jay Hertel had received the Kenneth L. Knight Award for the Outstanding Research Manuscript from the Journal of Athletic Training. McKeon’s outstanding work was recently recognized again, this time with the 2012 NATA New Investigator Award. His more recent research has demonstrated that other clinical interventions such as ankle joint mobilizations help to improve the function and quality of life of people with chronic ankle instability as well. His work with Curry professor Jay Hertel and other researchers has helped develop clinically relevant assessments to identify ankle sprain risk factors in adolescents. McKeon and his colleagues strive to generate athletic training research evidence that can be readily translated to patients and clinicians. This is a major tenet of the philosophy he learned as a doctoral student from Hertel and the Sports Medicine program. McKeon first met Hertel at an Eastern Athletic Trainers Association Meeting. At the time, McKeon was an athletic trainer and clinical instructor at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. The two discussed the value of a doctorate degree and of conducting clinical research. Soon after, McKeon was
STUDENT ATHLETE NEWS In last spring’s ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships Catherine White (B.S.Ed. ‘12 Kines) won the 10,000 meters, while Lance Roller (B.S.Ed. ‘12 Kines) won the 800 meters and 4x400 relay. Then first-year Nick Vena, after winning gold in the discus and the shotput, was named ACC Men’s Outdoor Most Valuable Field Performer. Among the members of U.Va.’s 2012 NCAA national championship women’s rowing team were Anna Kobayashi and Fiona Schlesinger, undergrads in the Kinesiology program. Jenny Shultis and team coach Josh Gautreau are students in our Exercise Physiology master’s program.
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filling out an application for the U.Va program. “I think the most valuable aspect of my Curry experience was working with faculty who were truly dedicated to their research and passionate about educating students at all levels,” McKeon says. He adds that one of the greatest pleasures in his career is being a graduate of a program with the best reputation in sports medicine and athletic training in the world. “As an alum of the Curry School and the Sports Medicine doctoral program, I have the privilege to share a common bond with many of the giants who define my profession.” From the nature of the recognition he has been receiving for his work, it’s clear that McKeon may someday join those giants himself. Outstanding Higher Ed Faculty: William E. Prentice (Ph.D. ‘80) William E. Prentice received the Curry School of Education Foundation’s 2012 Outstanding Higher Education Faculty Award in recognition of his professional stature, teaching, research, and service. Prentice has been a professor in the University of North Carolina’s Department of Exercise and Sport Science and program director of its top-ranked post-professional athletic training education program since 1980.
He was the first student ever to receive a doctorate of philosophy degree in the field of sports medicine and applied physiology from the Curry School. Prentice served as the athletic trainer for the UNC Women’s Soccer Program for 26 years. He has authored nine textbooks and has published more than 80 journal articles and abstracts. He has received numerous awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association, including the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award in 1999; the Sayers “Bud” Miller Distinguished Athletic Training Educator Award in 1997; and, the Educational Multimedia Committee Videotape Production Award in 1997. In 2004, Prentice was inducted into the NATA Hall of Fame. In 2006, the NATA established the William E. Prentice Doctoral Scholarship that is now presented annually in his name. Prentice was named in the inaugural class as an NATA Fellow in 2008.
KINESIOLOGY FACULTY Martin Block Professor Adapted Physical Education
Jay Hertel Joe H. Gieck Professor of Sports Medicine
B. Ann Boyce Assoc. Prof. of Teacher Education Health & Physical Education Pedagogy
Susan Saliba Associate Professor Sports Medicine
David Edwards Instructor Exercise Physiology
John Sirard Assistant Professor Exercise Physiology
Luke E. Kelly Professor and Program Director of Kinesiology Adapted Physical Education
Arthur Weltman Professor Exercise Physiology
Joe Hart Assistant Professor Sports Medicine
Read more about our faculty, their recent publications, and achievements at curry.virginia.edu/kinesiology-newsletter
2012 Pre-PT Club President
Student Profile: Lauren Bussian
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auren Bussian, a fourth-year kinesiology major, thinks the best thing about the Curry School has been the community it creates. “My first two years in the College, I felt like one of thousands that no one recognized or had a personal connection to. Curry has given me a community of faculty and students to look to. It’s such a welcoming atmosphere!” Bussian currently competes for the U.Va. triathlon team and for Team USA for sprint and Olympic distance triathlons. She says that as an athlete who had spent a fair amount of time in doctors’ and physical therapists’ offices during her precollege years, she knew she wanted to go into a health profession when she started at U.Va. “After talking more to doctors and thinking about what I was looking for in a profession,
“Curry has given me a community of faculty and students to look to. It’s such a welcoming atmosphere!”
I realized that it was the relationships I had made with my physical therapists that I really admired in their line of work,” she said. “As soon as I heard about the Kinesiology program, it seemed to me that it would be a perfect fit for what I want to do with my future.” She plans to earn a doctorate degree in physical therapy, maybe working with children with neurological disabilities or wounded veterans. This year, as she is also applying for PT schools, Bussian is serving as president of U.Va.’s Pre-Physical Therapy Club. The club typically meets monthly and often invites local speakers, according to Susan Saliba, who founded the club in 1989. Students discuss prerequisites, admission strategies, and differences in programs. The group offers membership across the University and is not limited to kinesiology majors. “I look back over my past four years and wonder if I could’ve done ‘x’ thing better or taken such-and-such course to help boost my application for PT school,” Bussian explains. “I didn’t know how to reach out for help or advice early on because I was unaware that these types of resources existed.” Bussian said she wanted to be president to help publicize the club’s mission and help students experience the process more confidently. “We have so many great resources out there. I just want to help bring those together.”
Thank You! The Curry School Foundation recognizes the generosity of the following alumni from the Kinesiology programs who have made donations so far in 2012: Michelle R. Adams
Nancy Jean Markos
Patricia A. Aronson
Rony C. Masri
Erica L. Bagby
Melissa A. Matherly
Rodney C. Bradley
Sarah McCollum
Kerry L. Camper, Sr.
John M. Minen
Richard Cole
Melissa Nathanson
Steven L. Cole
Jennifer V. Olson
Kristen Corderman
Steven H. Parker
Anna E. Crosswhite
Landon M. Piercy, Jr.
Libby A. Dalrymple
Stavros S. Piperis
Chelsea W. David
Daniel E. Reynolds
Viola E. DeLuca
Jasper L.
Mark G. Dorney
Richardson
Sarah P. Du Bose
Howard M. Roesen
Hunter L. Durvin
Babette M. Rogol
Edith B. Ellis
William A. Romani
Felicity E. Fisk
Lois H. Sandy
Jane M. Fitzgerald
Robert H. Shank
James D. Gibson
Jay D. Shearer
Brian P. Grady
Teresa H. Shepard
Esther M. Haskvitz
Wayne A. Smith
Shannon R. Hawrylo
Thomas H. Soos
Christina M. Hough
Sharon B. Spalding
Carol S. Jarrell
Marcia Russo Tabet
Elizabeth W. Katona
William J. Watson, III
Thomas F. Keyser
Denise M. Weber
John A. Kirby
Sharon Z. Weeks,
Michelle T. Le
Giselle P. Weinstein
Deanna M. Lewis
Beverly Westerman
Ann S. Livengood
These gifts directly benefit Curry students and the quality of their educational experiences. Your support is very much appreciated!
U.Va. Reunions Weekend ‘3s and ‘8s June 6-9, 2013 For more information, visit www.alumni.virginia.edu/reunions
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CLASS NOTES
Read more. We were thrilled to receive so many class notes that we couldn’t fit them all in the printed newsletter. Following is a listing of Kinesiology alumni who submitted information. You can read their complete class notes online at curry.virginia.edu/kinesiology-newsletter
Lynn Housner (B.S. ’74 Health & PE) received the 2012 Physical Education Teacher Education Honor Award and the Curriculum and Instruction Honor Award from the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. He is associate dean and professor in the College of Physical Activity & Sport Sciences at West Virginia University in Morgantown.
1970s Lynn Housner (B.S. ’74) Chris Malone (M.Ed. ‘75, M.Ed. ‘80) Debbie Ryan (M.Ed. ’77)
1980s Ginger Bagwell (M.Ed. ‘82) Merit Berry (B.S. ‘87) Mary Jo Cambridge (M.Ed. ’87) David Cook (M.Ed. ‘82, Ph.D. ‘84) i Jeff G. Konin (M.Ed. ’89) James Mathieson (M.Ed. ’89) Michelle Mehfoud (B.S. ‘89)
Sharon Spalding (M.Ed. ‘83) Nelson Neal (Ed.S. ‘85) William Quillen (Ph.D. ‘89) Howard Roesen (B.S. ‘86)
1990s Stiliani “Ani” Chroni (Ph.D. ‘97) Tim Cooke (M.Ed. ’99) Linda Dugan (M.Ed. ‘97) Evan Hellwig (Ph.D. ‘92) Kathryn Wilder (M.Ed. ‘94, Ph.D. ‘99) Robert K. Winters (Ph.D. ’99) Nate Zinsser (Ph.D. ‘92)
2000s Jason Bishop (M.Ed. ‘09) Kevin Burcham (B.S.Ed. ‘04, M.T. ‘04) Heather Byrne (B.S.Ed. ‘05) Carrie Deaver (M.Ed. ‘04) Sara Glover (Ph.D. ‘06) Kristen Luck (B.S.Ed. ‘05) Megan Maupin (B.S.Ed. ‘06) Kathryn Kreisa Newsom (B.S.Ed. ’02) Brooke Roney (M.Ed. ‘03) Capt. Todd Sander (Ph.D. ’02 PE) Amanda Tuck (B.S.Ed. ‘06)
Amanda Weller (B.S.Ed. ‘04) Steve Zinder (Ph.D. ‘02)
2010s Jasmine Braxton (B.S.Ed. ‘12) Chelsea David (B.S.Ed. ‘12) Lauretta Dezubay (B.S.Ed. ‘10, M.T. ‘10) Meghan Lockerby (M.Ed. ‘11) Noelle Selkow (M.Ed. ‘07, Ph.D. ‘11) Elizabeth Tankovich (B.S.Ed. ‘10)
Ashley Stern (M.Ed. ’10) provided physiotherapy services to Cayman Islands Olympic swimmers for the first week of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, U.K. during the Swimming events. The Cayman Islands had two athletes competing in Swimming: brothers Shaune and Brett Fraser, both graduates of the University of Florida. Stern is on the athletic training staff at Florida.
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