Tucker Center Newsletter - 2010 Spring
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Kudos & Announcements
Honors & Awards
Affiliated Scholar Daheia Barr-Anderson was awarded a one-year, $100,000 Twin Cities Community Action Grant funded by the General Mills Foundation. The grant will support Barr-Anderson’s study—“A Family Affair”—designed to develop and test intervention components of a home-based, physical activity and healthy eating program for African American adolescent girls and their mothers. The study’s primary goal is to increase girls’ daily physical activity, decrease sedentary behavior, and increase healthy eating. A secondary aim of this research is to increase physical activity and healthy eating among the young girls’ mothers.
Affiliated Scholar Jo Ann Buysse recently received a U of M travel grant to visit the Dominican Republic this March. Buysse will meet with sports professionals and arrange site visits for a new learning abroad Kinesiology course on Sport, Globalization, and Human Capital. The Minnesota Twins Baseball Academy located in Boca Chica, and the Dominican Sports & Education Association in Santo Domingo are two of the locations Buysse will also visit as part of her travel grant.
Scholarly Activities
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Director Mary Jo Kane has two journal articles in press. The first article, “We Have Passed This Way Before: Dollar Dilemmas During the Financial Downturn in College Sports,” will be published in the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport. The second article, “Expanding the Boundaries of Sport Media Research: Using Critical Theory to Explore Consumer Responses to Representations of Women’s Sports,” will appear in the Journal of Sport Management. Kane co-authored the second paper with Affiliated Scholar Heather Maxwell.
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Kane and Associate Director Nicole LaVoi have a book chapter in press—“Sociological Aspects of Sport and Physical Activity”—which will appear in the 4th edition of Contemporary Sport Management from Human Kinetics.
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Co-director Maureen Weiss, along with co-authors Tony Amorose and Anna Marie Wilko, published a manuscript in Pediatric Exercise Science titled, “Coaching Behaviors, Motivational Climate, and Psychosocial Outcomes Among Female Adolescent Athletes.”
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LaVoi published an article in the Women in Sport & Physical Activity Journal titled, “Occupational Sex Segregation in a Youth Soccer Organization: Females in Positions of Power.”
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Weiss and Nicole Bolter, doctoral candidate, have a book chapter in press, “Moral and Motor Development,” to be published in Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Perspective.
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Weiss and Affiliated Scholar Diane Wiese-Bjornstal published “Promoting Positive Youth Development Through Physical Activity” in the September 2009 issue of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Research Digest.
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Chapter 2 of the 2007 Tucker Center Research Report, Developing Physically Active Girls: An Evidence-based Multidisciplinary Approach, written by Wiese-Bjornstal, has been reprinted in an edited anthology of writings on girls and women in sport, Women, Sport and Physical Activity: Challenges and Triumphs (2nd ed.).
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LaVoi has a book chapter, “Athletics as Solution and Problem: Sports Participation for Girls and the Sexualization of Female Athletes,” in press with Elizabeth Daniels, University of Oregon. The chapter will appear in The Sexualization of Girls and Girlhood, a book produced by the American Psychological Association.
Presentations
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Weiss, Lindsay Kipp, doctoral student, and David Goodman, presented their research, “Unsportsmanlike Aggression in Youth Hockey: Attitudes, Perceived Social Approval, Situational Temptation, and Role Models,” at the Sport Canada Research Initiative Conference in Ottawa, Ontario, November, 2009.
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Weiss gave a keynote presentation at Girls on the Run Summit, “Promoting Life Skills and Healthy Outcomes in Girls: Benefits of a Physically Active Lifestyle,” in Austin, Texas, in January, 2010.
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LaVoi was an invited speaker for St. Cloud State Women’s Center Women on Wednesdays (WOW) Lecture Series in celebration of National Girls & Women in Sports Day, February, 2010. She delivered a similar presentation—“Current Issues of Girls & Women in Sport”—to the St. Paul chapter of the AAUW, in March, 2010.
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