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The MNYSRC through education and research helps parents, coaches and sport administrators understand their role in creating healthy, family-friendly youth sport opportunities that benefits everyone in the community and promotes positive youth development.
News
Jens Omli and Nicole LaVoi's manuscript, "The perfect storm: Background anger in youth sports," has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Sport Behavior. [July 22, 2008]
Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, professor of sport and exercise psychology, is quoted in an article on the prevalence of injury in girls' organized sports in Delaware Online. See the complete article at this link: http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200804290345/HEALTH/804290342 [May 28, 2008]
On June 3rd Nicole LaVoi, Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Lisa Kihl, and Maureen Weiss, Minnesota Youth Sport Research Consortium (www.MNYSRC.org) and School of Kinesiology faculty members discussed multiple interrelated research and civic engagement projects at the first Social, Psychological and Physical Development (SPPD) Neighborhood Lunch Forum. [May 27, 2008]
Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Nicole LaVoi, and Maureen Weiss, delivered a panel presentation titled "Physical Activity as a Context for Youth Development" on May 13, 2008. The presentation was part of The Applied Research Collaborative on Youth Development's Inquiry to Impact series. To see the presentation visit the Inquiry to Impact Web site [http://www.inquirytoimpact.org/]
Nicole LaVoi was featured on WCCO TV
On Monday morning April 14th, Nicole LaVoi was featured during the Minnesota Public Radio news cast [http://minnesota.publicradio.org/]. She discussed the 2007 Tucker Center Research Report, Developing Physically Active Girls. [April 15, 2008]
Doctoral Candidate Jens Omli has been awarded a prestigious 2-year NIMH traineeship at the U of M's Institute of Child Development. Starting Fall 2008, Omli will be working with Dante Cicchetti and Nicki Crick to acquire new research skills, which will allow him to investigate the influence of angry parent behavior on emotional outcomes in youth sport participants. Congratulations Jens!
On April 2, Tucker Center Research Assistant Chelsey Rodd successfully defended her MA project titled "Issues of Access and Strategies for Increasing Soccer Participation for All Youth: An Exploratory Case Study of a Youth Soccer Association." Congratulations Chelsey!
The Tucker Center is proud and excited to announce that The 2007 Tucker Center Research Report, Developing Physically Active Girls: An Evidence-based Multidisciplinary Approach is in press. The Executive Summary and full report are available now online [click here to download].
June 27-29, 2008,
Nicole LaVoi will deliver a keynote titled "Facilitating
Psychosocial Development of
Youth In and Through Sports" at The Soul of Youth Sports conference held
at Seattle University. For more information visit
www.seattleu.edu/artsci/css
Read about KIDS SPEAK youth sport research conducted by doctoral
candidate
Jens Omli at,
http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews
Read more about the MNYSRC's collaborative educational and research
initiatives with the Minnesota Youth Soccer Association in the January
2008 issue of Soccer Times on pages 13-14 at the following link
http://mnyouthsoccer.org
Read about the MNYSRC Minnesota PLAYS™ parent education program on the National Recreation & Parks Association website.
Nicole LaVoi,
Diane
Wiese-Bjornstal,
- Omli, J., LaVoi, N. M., Wiese-Bjornstal, D. (in press). Towards an understanding of parent spectator behavior at youth sport events. Journal of Youth Sports.
- LaVoi, N. M., Omli, J., Wiese-Bjornstal, D. (in press). Minnesota PLAYS (Parents Learning About Youth Sports): A research-based parent education solution. Journal of Youth Sports.
- LaVoi, N. M. (2007). Expanding the interpersonal dimension: Closeness in the coach-athlete relationship. International Journal of Sport Science & Coaching, 2(4), 497-512.
Maureen Weiss, professor of sport psychology and MNYSRC Affiliate, gave a keynote presentation at the 10th anniversary meeting of The First Tee on November 3 in Jacksonville, FL. In her presentation titled, "More Than a Game: Impact of The First Tee Life Skills Programs on Positive Youth Development," Weiss shared results from three years of longitudinal data documenting the effectiveness of this youth development program on life skills learning and developmental outcomes. In addition, Weiss's grant for this research was renewed by Philip Morris Youth Smoking Prevention Programs for next year, bringing her four-year grant total to over half a million dollars. [November 7, 2007]
Press Release on Minnesota PLAYS™: "Minnesota Community Tackles Youth Sport Parent Education"
