Harrison Honored for Minority Outreach, Faculty Deliver Presentations at AAHPERD Conference - April 14, 2011

Dr. Louis Harrison, Jr., was honored with the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance’s (AAHPERD) prestigious Charles D. Henry Award at this year’s national conference, which was held earlier this month in San Diego. The Henry Award is bestowed on an AAHPERD member who has put forth significant effort to increase ethnic minorities’ involvement with Alliance, increase communication with greater numbers of ethnic minority members and increase services offered to ethnic minority members.

Cynthia Villareal, an undergraduate student in the College of Education’s Phyiscal Education Teacher Education (PETE) program also was honored at the conference, receiving the AAHPERD’s Major of the Year Award for The University of Texas at Austin.

During the three-day conference, PETE faculty and graduate students were speakers and facilitators at several talks, poster presentations and symposia.

A presentation was given on a two-year funded project to create a scope and sequence for fitness education for the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. PETE speakers at this presentation were: Dr. Dolly Lambdin, Dr. Xiaofen Keating, Dr. Darla Castelli, Teresita Ramirez, Erin Centeio, Brian Dauenhauer and Janice Wallace. Graduate students James Supak and Langston Clark were facilitators. PETE attendees also presided over and presented at a research symposium titled “Analysis of Fitness Concepts in Physical and Health Education Standards.” At the symposium, faculty and graduate students offered a summary of a research project in which the fitness content in 49 states’ physical education standards was analyzed. Speakers at the symposium, and their topics, were:

1. Fitness Education Project Data Analysis: Janice Wallace, Erin Centeio and Brian Dauenhauer
2. Elementary Fitness Education - The State of the Standards: Brian Dauenhauer and Dr. Dolly Lambdin,
3. How Does Middle School FITT:  Dr. Darla Castelli, and Teresita Ramirez,
4. How Phat is Your Fitness Knowledge:  Erin Centeio and Dr. Xioafen Keating
5. Analysis of Fitness Education Content Domains in Higher Education: Janice Wallace and Dr. Xiaofen Keating

At a pre-convention symposium addressing professionals’ vision for the future of physical education, Dr. Darla Castelli and doctoral students Erin Centeio and Langston Clark gave presentations on “Time in Target Heart Zone and Physical and Cognitive Health” and on implementation of a PEP grant titled “Active + Healthy = Forever Fit.”

Additionally, Dr. Dolly Lambdin delivered a Fitness for Life instructor workshop in which she trained 24 instructors from around the nation to provide in-service education for teachers who are using the Fitness for Life K-12 series.

—Kay Randall, University Communications, 512-232-3910

Related Sites:

• PETE Homepage
• Dr. Louis Harrison's Faculty Profile