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Spring 2010 Distinguished Lecture
The Spring 2010 Distinguished Lecture will feature Mariah Burton Nelson, speaking on: "Are Women Aging Successfully? New Thinking and Research about Gender and Physical Activity". The lecture will take place on on Wednesday, April 21, at Cowles Auditorium on the University of Minnesota's West Bank. For more information on the upcoming lecture, click here or download the flier.
Tucker Table Information
The Spring schedule for Tucker Tables is now available! Tucker Tables will be held on Fridays from 12:30-1:30 PM in 206 Cooke Hall. The second presentation will feature Erin Becker, M.A., and Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., on March 26. Becker and LaVoi's presentation is titled, Coaching youth soccer as a token female.
Tucker Center News
LaVoi to present at University of Nevada Soccer Coaching Symposium
March 1, 2010
Nicole LaVoi, Tucker Center Associate Director and Lecturer in the School of Kinesiology, will give two presentations at the inaugural University of Nevada Soccer Coaching Symposium on March 6: "Fact vs. Fiction: Differences in Coaching Males & Females," and "Evidence-based Tips for Parents and Coaches in Creating the Optimal Youth Soccer Experience."
LaVoi to discuss benefits of sport for girls on WTIP radio
February 18, 2010
On Friday, February 19, at 5:45pm, Nicole LaVoi, Tucker Center Associate Director and Lecturer in the School of Kinesiology, will be a guest on The Roadhouse Radio Show on WTIP, a community radio station broadcasting on the North Shore of Lake Superior. LaVoi will discuss the benefits of sport participation for girls.
LaVoi quoted in New York Times on benefit of sports to girls
February 16, 2010
Nicole LaVoi, Tucker Center Associate Director and Lecturer in the School of Kinesiology, is quoted in the New York Times in an article on the benefit of sports to girls entitled "As Girls Become Women, Sports Pay Dividends," by Tara Parker-Pope.
Kinesiology's LaVoi interviewed on FoxTV on basketball fight
February 16, 2010
Nicole LaVoi, Tucker Center associate director and lecturer in the School of Kinesiology, was interviewed by FoxTV on a fight that broke out among parents at a recent Burnsville, MN, 6th grade basketball tournament. LaVoi talks about sporting situations that can result in parents fighting.
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/fight-breaks-out-at-basketball-tournament
Buysse to visit Dominican Republic, develop new course on globalization of sport
February 10, 2010
Jo Ann Buysse, Ph.D., education specialist and Tucker Center affiliate, recently received a travel grant to go to the Dominican Republic in March. She will be meeting with sport professionals and arranging site visits for a new learning abroad course on sport, globalization, and human capital. The Minnesota Twins Baseball Academy in Boca Chica and the Dominican Sports and Education Association in Santo Domingo are two of the locations Buysse will visit as part of her grant.
KARE-11 interviews kinesiology faculty on Olympian Lindsey Vonn appearing in SI swimsuit issue
February 10, 2010
Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., Tucker Center associate director and lecturer in sport psychology, and Stephen Ross, Ph.D., associate professor in sport management, both in the School of Kinesiology, appear in a KARE-11 video interview as part of a short piece entitled "Lindsey Vonn poses for Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue." LaVoi's recent blog post has drawn fire in highlighting the media's propensity to portray female athletes as sex objects.
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