Kinesiology Alumni Newsletter 2015

KINESIOLOGY

SUMMER 2015

Kinesiology Faculty Arthur Weltman, Professor & Department Chair Martin Block, Professor Ann Boyce, Associate Professor David Edwards, Assistant Professor

Jay Hertel, Joe H. Gieck Professor in Sports Medicine Luke Kelly, Virgil S. Ward Professor of Education Steven Malin, Assistant Professor Jacob Resch, Assistant Professor Susan Saliba, Associate Professor Read highlights of our faculty work at curry.virginia.edu/kinesiology-newsletter

KINESIOLOGY is edited by Lynn Bell, Director of Alumni Relations, and published by the Curry School of Education, P.O. Box 400268, Charlottesville, VA 22904.

Email: lynnbell@virginia.edu #UVACurry

P H OTO S B Y TO M CO G I L L

Joe Hart, Associate Professor

Susan Saliba (left) works with students in the new Kinesiology Teaching Lab in Ruffner Hall. Doctoral student Neal Glaviano (right) demonstrates the virtual reality immersion capabilities of the Bertec Balance Advantage – CDP Sensory Organization Test. See more lab photos online.

Program News

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he past year has been a whirlwind of activity in the Kinesiology Department. Thanks to an incredibly generous award of STEM funding, we had the ability to revamp and renew the equipment in our Exercise & Sport Injury Lab (EASIL) and have created a new lab space for Exercise Physiology (which we call the Applied Metabolism & Physiology, or AMP, Lab) here in Memorial Gym. In addition, we are equipping a state-of-the-art teaching lab in Ruffner Hall thanks to generous donations to the Curry School Foundation and a prestigious Jefferson Trust Award.

During U.Va. Homecomings weekend, we will host an open house for anyone interested in touring these new spaces. Please see below for details. If you aren’t able to attend that weekend, just let us know when you will be in Charlottesville and we’ll be sure to take you around.

In addition to the funding awards, this year U.Va. Kinesiology was recognized as a Top 5 program in the US for colleges offering majors in health and physical fitness by USA Today based on overall academic quality.

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Kinesiology Homecoming Open House Come reconnect with Kinesiology faculty and friends!

Saturday, October 17, at Memorial Gymnasium 3 hours before game time Check out all our new and renovated research and learning spaces.

RSVP to receive updates and final start time: curry.virginia.edu/kines-openhouse Refreshments for All + Activities for Kids in the Gym

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` —Program news continued from page 1 This fall, we are launching an Alumni Mentoring program for our third and fourth year students, who would greatly benefit from your expertise in navigating both their graduate school and career paths.

If you have already registered as a mentor, we thank you and welcome your feedback throughout your experience. If you have not yet registered, but would like to participate, please visit alumnimentoring.virginia.edu. We welcome all alumni to participate, as our undergraduates have a wide range of interests and career goals.

Finally, we’re continuing to collaborate through the Center of Undergraduate Excellence with the USOAR program.

(Undergraduate Student Opportunities in Academic Research) Now in its third year, we will have four students working in our research laboratories.

Things continue to change and grow in our department. It has been an exciting year

and we look forward to further expanding our horizons in the year to come.

Student News Eight Kinesiology students were awarded Intermediate Honors (they are in the top 20% of GPAs of all students in their class who have also had at least 60 credits at U.Va.): Tyler Kameh, Jennifer Clark, Holly Kirks, Hanna-Louisa Alvesteffer, Alyssa Passarelli, William Mills, Shontell White and Nicole Karikari.

Ph.D. student Ashley Stern was on

the staff of the 2015 Open Water World Championship Team in swimming and has made a huge contribution to their efforts as they prepare for the upcoming Olympic Trials.

Kinesiology student Caid Kirven was named to the Honors Court.

Ph.D. students Andrew Colombo-

Dougovito and Grant Norte were both

awarded $1,000 Curry School Foundation IDEA grants. Andy will use the funds to further his study in utilizing a dynamic systems approach to build functional motor skills in children with autism spectrum disorder. Grant will use the funds to further his study of Quadriceps Function Following ACL Reconstruction.

Fourth-year Courtney Swan was named the 2015 Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Lacrosse Scholar-Athlete of the Year and headlines the All-ACC Academic Women’s Lacrosse Team. She was also one of five Cavaliers to be named to the All-ACC Women’s Lacrosse Academic Team along with Liza Blue. It was Blue’s fourth time earning the accolade.

Vince Croce was selected as a team captain for the 2015 football season.

Natalie Eichner was awarded the 2015 Golding Scholarship.

Morgan Brian: World Cup Whirlwind

BY KRIS WRIGHT OF THE SABRE.COM

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organ Brian was a little upset about missing final exercises last May when her class graduated but then thought better of it.

“Graduation is great and everything, but obviously school is always there and I can go back and graduate. Not everyone can participate in a World Cup and then obviously be World Champions too,” she said.

Brian, who juggled trips around the world with college and college soccer throughout her career, isn’t waiting too long to finish off her own Virginia degree. She needs 27 credits to complete her Kinesiology studies, and she’ll be back in Charlottesville this fall to take a full class schedule of 15 credits. That will put her one semester away from finishing, and she hopes to have that done by the end of the following year.

“I’m going to be taking a full load, “Brian said. … I’m going to be there right after the NWSL season and obviously we have the victory tour, but I’ll be there in between all of that. ...

“In January, hopefully I’ll be up with the team for Olympic qualifying – obviously I have 2

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to make the team first, but if I do, I’ll be with them for a while. I might just do the rest online.

My goal is to be done after next fall. I’m glad I only have 27 credits left. That’s less than a year and I was gone for way more time. I’m glad I’m not that far behind.”

Brian earning a spot on the Olympic qualifying roster seems like a formality after the World Cup. She became a key figure for the U.S. Women’s National Team during the knockout rounds, starting the final three games against China, Germany, and Japan.

Analysts widely praised Brian’s play as a critical turning point in the tournament for the team. The holding midfielder role is not where Brian has spent the majority of her career. On the younger national teams and at Virginia, Brian played as an attacking midfielder and needless to say, she was really good at it.

She is the only player in Virginia history with 40 goals and 40 assists with 125 points in her Cavalier career (41 goals, 43 assists) after all. She also won the Hermann Trophy in consecutive years, which is given to the nation’s best college player.

Still, she looked like a natural in the hold-

ing role thanks to her touch and understanding of space.

“It wasn’t really a quick transition. I’ve been playing that role in the midfield I would say with the U.S. for quite some time,” Photo courtesy of Brian said. “It’s some- USsoccer.com thing I’ve had to really embrace.”

Brian, a member of the Houston Dash, and many of her U.S. Women’s National Team teammates have returned to play in front of record crowds for the National Women’s Soccer League. Everywhere the players go, they are drawing attention and that means the World Cup euphoria still hasn’t fully settled.

Brian isn’t sure that it will ever fully sink in, at least for another 10 to 15 years, she said with a laugh.

Read more at curry.virginia.edu/kinesiologynewsletter. This article was exerpted with permission and was originally published online in The Sabre.

Featured Alum

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or the first time in his 27 years at the University of Pittsburgh, Scott Lephart saw a job opportunity intriguing enough to tempt him to apply.

And he was hired.

In March 2015, Lephart became dean of the University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences, also serving as Endowed Chair of Orthopaedic Research for the university.

A big part of what made him an excellent choice for the position had to have been his global reputation as a leading authority on military injury prevention and performance optimization. At Pitt he was founding director of the Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, leading the field in research on proprioception and neuromuscular control of joint stability.

That work led to a collaboration with the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to develop the Eagle Tactical Athlete Program. He then expanded his work to developing a model to study the tactically specific injury prevention and human performance needs of Special Operations Forces.

His lab was later selected to lead the scientific research on human performance, working with seven Warrior Human Performance Research laboratories across all four branches of the military. Their work focuses on the wellbeing and resilience of the Special Operations Forces and their families.

Now that Lephart is at UK, the College of Health Sciences is committed to developing a new Sports Science Research Institute that will include support for his ongoing work with Special Operation Forces.

“Scott Lephart is an internationally recognized scholar in athletic training and

P H OTO CO U R T E S Y O F U N I V E R S I T Y O F K E N T U C K Y

Scott M. Lephart (M.Ed. ’86, Ph.D. ’89 Sports Med)

sports medicine whose research on the role of proprioception and neuromuscular control deficits in joint injuries has been infused into the daily practice of all clinicians who practice musculoskeletal sports medicine,” said Professor Jay Hertel.

Lephart credits the Curry School with giving him the opportunity to pursue his passion and preparing him for the successful path his career has taken. He chose Curry after completing his undergraduate degree at Marietta College because of our Ph.D. program in sports medicine, which was the first in the country.

He remembers his time here fondly. “[The University of Virginia] is the most beautiful college campus I’ve ever been on,” he said.

Lephart offered some wisdom for recent graduates of Curry’s doctoral program: “There are endless opportunities ahead of you.

Completion of your Ph.D is the beginning of the journey not the end.”

True words spoken by a scientist who has just embarked on a whole new journey himself.

Kinesiology Club @ UVA

Thank You! The Curry School Foundation recognizes the generosity of the following alumni from Kinesiology programs who made donations in fiscal year 2015 (which ended June 30): Patricia A. Aronson

Kelly Trussell Jones

Francesca D. Atkins

Kerri Joyce

Erica L. Bagby

John A. Kirby

Beth O’Connor Baker

Emily M. Macklin

Bryan M. Beaubrun

Ellen A. Malloy

Jean S. Bonnyman

Charles R. Modlin

Rodney C. Bradley

Ana V. Morais

Amy L. Buckberg

Jeanine P. Murphy

Kerry L. Camper, Sr.

Melissa J. Nathanson

Richard R. Cole

Shannon E. O’Toole

Steven L. Cole

Jennifer Vincel Olson

Phillip K. Conatser

Angelica M. Palting

Stephen W. Crute

Mark A. Patterson

Libby A. Dalrymple

Barbara L. Peterson

Nancy Coble Damon

Jaclyn A. Polk

Chelsea W. David

Howard M. Roesen

Craig R. Denegar

Ethan N. Saliba

Meredith G. Denton

Susan A. Saliba

Jacqueline A. Diani

Lois H. Sandy

Mark G. Dorney

Robert H. Shank

Sarah R. Du Bose

Teresa H. Shepard

Hunter L. Durvin

Jeffory A. Smoot

Vanessa Erens

Thomas H. Soos

Nancy J. Gansneder

Nancy D. Specht

Amara L. Gerarden

Marcia Russo Tabet

Ann Setien Gibbs

Amanda C. Tuck

Samantha N. Gleason

William J. Watson, III

Susan C. Gosney

Denise M. Weber

Christopher G.

Sharon Zirkle Weeks

Greenwood

Amanda L. Weller

Katherine Grevelding

Shannon E. Wells

Jeffrey M. Hartman

Catherine E. Woznak

Esther M. Haskvitz

R. Tyler Young

Richard C. Ingram

Jenny S. Zenner

Margaret H. Jensen

Riccardo Zimmerman

Your gifts directly benefit Curry students and the quality of their educational experiences and can be designated for Kinesiology if you so desire.

Having been reenergized in recent years the Kinesiology Club has been and will continue to make great strides toward their goals of service to the community and student development. This academic year, the club plans to continue to play an integral role in Kinesiology’s peer mentorship program, which matches incoming First Years with upperclassmen to provide a student-to-student support system. The club also has plans to help develop an exercise is medicine initiative on grounds, which seeks to raise awareness of the beneficial effects living an active lifestyle can have on immediate and future health outcomes.

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CLASS NOTES 1970s & 1980s

Robyn Benson, DOM (B.S. ’87) published The

Healthy Traveler. ...Available on Amazon (paperback version coming soon).

Craig Denegar (M.Ed. ’79, Ph.D. ’89) is head of the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Connecticut. He wrote Therapeutic Modalities for Musculoskeletal Injuries with Ethan and Susan Saliba.

Lynn Housner (B.S. ’74) retired in 2013 from West Virginia University due to an unexpected illness and disability...

Jeff Kloetzel (B.S.Ed. ’87) just released his second CD of original music, called “Long Time Coming.” ...www.jeffkloetzel.blogspot.com

1990s

Morgan Birge (M.Ed. ’97) is assistant principal at

Garfield Elementary School in Fairfax, Va. Stiliani “Ani” Chroni (Ph.D ’97) became a professor of Sport Psychology in June 2014 at Hedmark University College in Norway.

Valerie Herzog (M.Ed. ’96) was appointed to serve as the director of the Office of Graduate Studies at Weber State University...

Dennis Mendoza (B.S.Ed. ’98, M.Ed. ’99) is a nurse anesthetist with North American Partners in Anesthesia and the chief CRNA at Inova Alexandria Hospital in Northern Virginia.

Byron Shenk (Ed.D. ’90) has been a full professor at George Fox University in Oregon since 1990...

2000s

Megan Burgess (B.S.Ed. ’06) is a physical 4

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Submit your class note at curry.virginia.edu/classnotes/submit therapist and manager at a hospital-based therapy provider and a teaching assistant with the Washington University in St. Louis program in physical therapy...

Brian G. Pietrosimone (M.Ed. ’06, Ph.D. ’09) received the 2015 National Athletic Trainers

Association New Investigator Award. He is an assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill.

Max Prokopy (M.Ed. ’08) operates the U.Va. SPEED Clinic, which uses 3-D technology and force analysis to help athletes avoid injury and improve performance.

Kelli Pugh (B.S.Ed. ’00) was promoted to assistant athletics director for sports medicine at U.Va....

Brian Raska (M.ED. ’09) was appointed as the new assistant principal at Stafford Elementary School in Stafford, Va. Ann Tuzson (Ph.D. ’08) just began a core faculty position in the Department of Physical Therapy at Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences in Fishersville, Va. Amanda Weller (B.S.Ed. ’04) is an orthopaedic surgeon at Wardell Orthopaedics in Suffolk, Va....

H. Marie Williams (B.S.Ed. ’06) published a memoir about overcoming the trauma of sexual assault., called The Remedy...

Maggie Winzeler (B.S.Ed ’08) “I’m excited to be entering my last semester of graduate studies at Georgetown University...”

2010s

Rebekah Jarosinski (B.S.Ed. ’15) is a first year student in the Doctorate of Physical Therapy program at VCU...

Eunhye Kwon (M.Ed. ’09, Ph.D. ’14) presented

her dissertation at the International Symposium of Adapted Physical Activity in June 2015 in Netanya, Israel...

Sarah Ludwick (B.S.Ed ’11) recently moved to LaGrange, Ga., with her husband and is working as an inpatient and outpatient dietitian at a local hospital.

Cathy McKay (Ed.D. ’13) is an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology at James Madison University...

MAJ Timothy Mitroka (M.Ed. ’13) put his kinesiology and fitness skills to the test when he competed on the TV show American Ninja Warrior...

Ana Morais (B.S.Ed. ’15) will be at U.Va. one more year to finish her masters in exercise physiology.

Kason O’Neil (Ph.D. ’14) received a 2015 Research Council Graduate Student Research Award from SHAPE America for his abstract entitled “SelfEfficacy Scale Towards Teaching Lifetime Physical Activities: Development and Validation.”

Laura Pritchard-Compton (B.S.Ed. ’09, M.Ed. ’10), founder and executive director of Urban

Perform in Atlanta, was featured in the December issue of SELF Magazine in its “Women Doing Good” feature.

Sarah Skinner (B.S. Ed. ’14, M.Ed. ’15) will be starting a Ph.D. in exercise physiology at l’Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in Lyon, France, this fall.

Read more. Many class notes were abbreviated due to space limitations. You can read the full versions, including photos and fond memories, at curry.virginia.edu/URL