ISYS Annual Report 2022-2023

2022-2023

ANNUAL REPORT

(517) 355-4730 ced.youthsports@msu.edu education.msu.edu/youth-sports

VALUES

Integrity, Excellence, Collaboration, Equity and Inclusion

VISION Our vision is to enhance well-being and development across physical, social, and psychological domains through youth sport.

MISSION The mission is to discover and implement best practices in youth sport to optimize the experiences of all stakeholders.

Teaching and Learning: Through offering top-tier degree programs and conducting trainings, workshops, and webinars for students, researchers, and practitioners Research: Through conducting independent research projects and collaborating with community partners to fill gaps and needs in the field Outreach: Through providing consulting services to sport organizations, governing bodies, coaches, and sport leaders Leadership: Through increasing awareness, advocacy, and service to local, regional, national, and international organizations and stakeholders

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GIVING TO ISYS

While originally funded by the State of Michigan, the ISYS is now primarily self-funded through grants and donations. Tax deductible donations from ISYS alumni and friends allow us to fund research initiatives, support graduate students through research assistantships, and fund outreach and community engagement of youth sports for all individuals involved. For additional information about giving a gift to ISYS, please contact the College of Education Office of Development at education.msu.edu/development/

CONTACT US Institute for the Study of Youth Sports Department of Kinesiology, Michigan State University 308 West Circle Drive East Lansing, MI 48824 Twitter and Facebook: @YouthSportsMSU Website: education.msu.edu/youth-sports/

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TABLE OF CONTENTS DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE

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FACULTY, STAFF & STUDENTS PAGE 7

EVENTS & AWARDS

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RESEARCH UPDATES & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

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SPORT COACHING, LEADERSHIP, AND ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMS

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PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS PAGE 29

IN REMEMBRANCE PAGE 34

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DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE It is an honor and privilege to serve as Director and write my first ISYS Director’s Message for the Annual Report. I want to begin by acknowledging Dr. Dan Gould. He is a hard act to follow, considering his excellent traits of intelligence, diligence, dedication, humor, and leadership, to name a few. I hope ISYS continues to make him and everyone else with a current or former (or future!) affiliation proud. Although we thanked him in last year’s report, we thank him again! ISYS is forever indebted to you.

Dan said a few words about me in last year’s report, so I will not say more about me. Instead, I will focus on the other members of ISYS and the great work everyone has been doing over the academic year of 2022-2023. I am grateful for the smooth transition and support I have received from all involved, so big thanks to everyone for that. One of the best moves we were able to make is the hiring of Sarah Miloshoff. Sarah splits her time handling all sorts of tasks for the online master’s program in Sport Coaching, Leadership, and Administration and the Institute. When we hired her, we were not exactly sure what all her job responsibilities would be, and fortunately that did not scare her! She has risen to the challenge by keeping us organized, keeping track of just about everything, supporting all our efforts with webinars, conferences, and the Summer Coaches’ School, handling our social media and spearheading our communications efforts, admitting and keeping students on track, and so much more. We were fortunate to secure this position and hire Sarah.

Speaking of Sarah’s responsibilities, one of them was to bring back a quarterly email newsletter, the Youth Sport Report. For those of you who are receiving it, we hope you have been enjoying some more frequent communication. We are happy to take any suggestions for ideas you would like to see included.

For those of you who are not receiving it and would like to, please let us know.

Please contact Sarah at milosho1@msu.edu.

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DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE Highlights of our successful 2022-2023 academic year: Dan continues to receive many accolades. He received the Coach Education/Coach Developer Legacy Award from the U.S. Center for Coaching Excellence (USCCE), plus was inducted to the International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP) Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame was officially established in August 2022, and induction is a recognition that ISSP bestows to globally outstanding scholars, practitioners, and organizational leaders in the field of sport and exercise psychology.

We welcomed Dr. Sanghoon Kim as faculty in our online graduate program in Sport Coaching Leadership, and Administration. Additionally, he was selected as one of the "Rising Stars in Sport Management Research" by the Asian Association for Sport Management (AASM), and he gave a keynote presentation at the 2022 AASM Webinar entitled: "Emerging Technologies for Fan Gameday Experience".

As usual, we kicked off the academic year with our Kristen Marie Gould lecture. We enjoyed a fantastic presentation by Dr. Kelly ArbourNicitopolous, who is an expert in adapted physical activity.

Worked on mission, vision, and values, and now we are working on goals.

(See page 2) Students presented at Midwest Sport and Exercise Psychology Symposium.

Meredith Wekesser received the highly prestigious MSU Excellence in Teaching Citation Award and Outstanding Student Paper Award in Sport and Exercise Psychology for the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA).

We provided a workshop series for the Lansing School District.

We presented two webinars, “Celebrating Black Coaches and Leaders in Sport Administration” and “Women in Sports Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities." Our future plan is to host two webinars each year, highlighting work in areas of youth sport that are underrepresented.

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DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE Drs. Jennifer Roth and Sanghoon Kim were invited to attend the 2023 United States Tennis Association Tennis and Pickleball Summit and presented a research project titled: "Exploring the Compatibility of Tennis and Pickleball".

Dr. Spyridoula Vazou received a 3-year grant from the Kinder Ferrero social responsibility group in collaboration with the Save the Children nonprofit organization. The purpose of the grant is to develop, evaluate, and implement the “Joy of Moving and Learning” program (physically active games integrated with academics) for Save the Children to help prevent the summer learning loss among underserved children.

Several students and faculty attended and presented at USCCE. Summer Coaches’ School was a great success and featured Dr. Molly McQueary, Pete Jacobson, Dr. Scott Pierce (ISYS alumnus), Dr. Ian Cowburn (ISYS alumnus), and Ramon Diaz.

Although not a highlight, we recognize the loss of beloved colleague, Dr. John Haubenstricker (Hobbs), and John Narcy.

Thanks to all for your contributions that have made it a great year! I’m looking forward to seeing what this next year brings.

Karin Allor Pfeiffer, Ph.D. Director, Institute for the Study of Youth Sports Michigan State University 308 W. Circle Drive, Room 210 East Lansing, MI 48824

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ISYS Faculty

Tracey Covassin, Ph.D., ATC

Andy Driska, Ph.D.

Dr. Covassin is an associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology and a certified athletic trainer in the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics at MSU. Her research focuses on neuropsychological impairments of concussions and epidemiology of sports. Tracey collaborates with ISYS team members to examine concussions in youth and high school athletics.

Dr. Driska oversees the graduate programs in sport coaching, leadership, and administration, teaches graduate courses in sport psychology, motor learning, and coaching science, and coordinates coach education outreach efforts. His research investigates the professional development of sport coaches and leaders, particularly how coaches use social media to connect and engage with ideas, experts, peers, and sport stakeholders.

Daniel Gould, Ph.D.

Jeemin Kim, Ph.D.

Dr. Gould is former director of the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports and a professor emeritus of Kinesiology.

In 2019, he was named the inaugural Gwendolyn Norrell Professor of Youth Sport and Student-Athlete Well-Being.

His area of expertise is mental training for athletic competition and sport psychology. His research interests include the stress-athletic performance relationship, psychological foundations of coaching, athlete motivation, youth leadership and positive youth development through sport.

Dr. Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology. His educational background includes sport and exercise psychology. His research program has two specific major areas of inquiry - (1) sport group dynamics, with a focus on understanding how informal roles (e.g., team comedians, mentors, informal leaders) develop in sport teams and how these roles subsequently influence sport teams and (2) social norms and physical activity participation, with a focus on identifying how and under what conditions social norms can promote physical activity participation.

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Sanghoon Kim, Ph.D.

Leps Malete, Ph.D.

Dr. Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology, with a focus on teaching courses for the Sport Coaching, Leadership, and Administration graduate programs. His research interests center on understanding sport consumers' experiences and responses to technology-mediated communications and environments from various different steams (i.e., social media, self-service technology and virtual and augmented reality).

Dr. Malete is an associate professor and coordinator of global initiatives in the Department of Kinesiology and came to MSU from the University of Botswana.

His teaching and research interests are on international dimensions of youth psychosocial development through sport and physical activity, self-efficacy and athletic performance, as well as nutrition and childhood obesity. He is also the coordinator of Kinesiology global initiatives.

Nicholas Myers, Ph.D.

Karin Allor Pfeiffer, Ph.D.

Dr. Myers' research program is situated at intersections of latent variable modeling and psychosocial aspects of sport and physical activity. His three primary lines of research are (1) behavioral interventions that promote physical activity and/or well-being; (2) measurement of physical activity, selfefficacy beliefs, and well-being; and (3) latent variable modeling in kinesiology.

Dr. Pfeiffer is a professor and director of the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports. She also is a member of the Center for Physical Activity and Health.

Pfeiffer is an exercise physiologist with an interest in population-based investigations. Her research focuses on two major areas, both of which are related to physical activity in children and adolescents. Her work spans the age range of preschool through high school.

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Jenny Roth, Ph.D.

Spyridoula Vazou, Ph.D.

Dr. Roth is an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology. She primarily teaches courses in the Sport Coaching, Leadership, and Administration online graduate programs. Her research interests include coach education, online teaching and learning, positive youth development through sport, and modified youth sports. Jennifer has consulted with the United States Tennis Association and has worked as a sport psychology consultant for numerous teams and athletes.

Dr. Vazou is an associate professor of Kinesiology, working in exercise psychology and pedagogy. Her research interests focus on developing (a) physically active environments to promote learning, cognitive function and academic performance, and (b) strategies to motivate youth to be physically active.

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ISYS Staff & Students

Mahya Ardestani

Kylee AultBaker

Mahya is an international doctoral student from Iran and a first-year doctoral student in the Institute working with Professors Pfeiffer and Vazou.

Mahya’s work focuses on factors that affect child obesity as it relates to exercise physiology and exercise psychology.

Dr. Ault-Baker is a doctoral student is ISYS studying with Dr. Dan Gould. Her work focuses on improving educationbased athletics at the policy level to provide a positive developmental experience for all student-athletes while building their leadership and life skills.

She has served as the graduate assistant with the MHSAA in their athlete development area. She graduated with her Ph.D. in May 2023.

Marcelo Cabral De Andrade

Katherine Curtis

Marcelo is an international student from Brazil and is a first-year doctoral student in the Institute. Marcelo is working under the supervision of Dr. Spyridoula Vazou, investigating the effects of different sport practices on the cognitive skills in youth. He has experience as a soccer player/instructor and hopes to continue researching the benefits of soccer for the psychosocial development of the youth population.

Katherine Curtis is a second-year master’s student in the Department of Kinesiology at Michigan State University.

Her primary research interests include athletic performance and the use of wearable devices in sport. Her time with the MSU football team has provided her experiences with new athletic performance technology such as VALD Performance and Catapult Sports. She is currently working in the sports science department and works closely with MSU field hockey and volleyball.

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Sarita Dotson Sarita is a first year doctoral student in the cognitive motor and neuroscience concentration. Sarita’s research interests are in cognitive-motor control and coordination, as well as brainbehavior relationship. She currently envisions a career at the intersection of academia and industry, where she can help shape innovative interventions and technologies that enhance human motor function and cognitive well-being.

David Mabuta Dr. Mabuta is a doctoral student with a concentration in psychosocial aspects of sport. His research interests include sport and academic motivation and leadership in sport. He graduated with his Ph.D. in May 2023.

Alysha Matthews

Michael Mignano

Dr. Matthews is a doctoral student concentrating in psychosocial aspects of sport and physical activity. Her research interest include safeguarding youth athletes, specifically through youth sport programming and coach education. She graduated with her Ph.D. in May 2023.

Michael is a doctoral student. His research interests include coach burnout, trust in sport, coaching Generation Z, gender issues in sport management, and volunteerism in sport.

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Sarah Miloshoff

Jordan Rademacher

Sarah is the educational program coordinator for SCLA online graduate programs and the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports. She facilitates outreach to prospective students, plans program events, and coordinates marketing and social media efforts for SCLA programs and the ISYS. She is currently pursuing a master's in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education at MSU.

Jordan is a master's student with Sport Coaching, Leadership, and Administration programs. He works as a teaching assistant in the Department of Kinesiology. He plans to pursue his Ph.D.

Chelsi Ricketts Chelsi is a third year doctoral student working with Dr. Malete. Her primary research interests include body image in sport and physical activity and positive youth development through sport.

Lauren Secaras Lauren is a third year doctoral student in the Institute. Lauren's work focuses on understanding conflict in sport and how to best equip athletes and coaches to manage conflict effectively when it arises. She hopes to continue working with coaches and athletes so that her research can impact their sport experiences.

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Mary-Anne Walker

Meredith Wekesser

Mary-Anne is a part-time doctoral student in the Department of Kinesiology. Her research interests include youth development, mental skills training, self-regulation of the body, and flow research. Mary-Anne has been working with lower socioeconomic populations around the world for over 30 years.

Dr. Wekesser is a doctoral student. Her research interests include the coach's role in fostering positive development and continued participation for youth athletes as well as measurement and advanced statistical methods in sport and exercise psychology. She graduated with her Ph.D. in May 2023.

Corinne Zimmerman Corinne is a first year doctoral student in the Institute. Corinne’s research interests are many but primarily focus on group dynamics and the organizational culture of sports teams and their influence on the sporting experience. She looks forward to continuing to learn from her peers and colleagues in the institute and further develop her research to share with sport based practitioners.

EVENTS & AWARDS GRADUATE AWARDS College of Education Alumni Fellowship Lauren Secaras

KIN Endowed Fellowship Chelsi Ricketts

College of Education Summer Research Fellowship Kylee Ault-Baker Alysha Matthews Chelsi Ricketts Lauren Secaras Meredith Wekesser

MSU Excellence in Teaching Citation Meredith Wekesser

Dissertation Completion Fellowship Kylee Ault-Baker David Mabuta Alysha Matthews DJ McDowell Meredith Wekesser

MSU KIN Outstanding Master’s Student Katharine Curtis

Hard Cost Dissertation & Practicum Support Chelsi Ricketts Henry J. & Betty Montoye Endowed Scholarship Kylee Ault-Baker

Events & Awards

MSU Kinesiology Endowed Scholarship Alysha Matthews Lauren Secaras Meredith Wekesser

Outstanding Student Paper Award in Sport and Exercise Psychology (NASPSPA) Meredith Wekesser Summer Research Development Fellowship Marcelo Odilon Cabral de Andrade Vern and Nancy Seefeldt Research Fellowship in Youth Sports Kylee Ault-Baker

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EVENTS & AWARDS

FACULTY/STAFF AWARDS We welcome Dr. Jeemin Kim, Dr. Sanghoon Kim, Sarah Miloshoff, and Dr. Spyridoula Vazou to the ISYS family!

Dr. Tracey Covassin William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award National Academy of Kinesiology Fellow Dr. Daniel Gould Coach Developer Legacy Award International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP) Hall of Fame Dr. Jeemin Kim Outstanding Reviewer of the Year (2022) from Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology Dr. Sanghoon Kim Rising Star in Sport Management Research (Asian Association for Sport Management (AASM) Dr. Sanghoon Kim and Dr. Jenny Roth Invited to attend the 2023 United States Tennis Association Tennis and Pickleball Summit Dr. Spyridoula Vazou Received a 3-year grant (Kinder Ferrero and Save the Children)

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USTA GRANT DR. JENNIFER ROTH & DR. SANGHOON KIM With pickleball's popularity growing over the last decade, organizations and clubs are seeking new business strategies to integrate tennis and pickleball and to satisfy all participants. However, there has been little knowledge on conflicted issues between the two sports, and there is also little information about how individuals perceive the two sports and their compatibility. Dr. Jennifer Roth and Dr. Sanghoon Kim explore this gap and successfully secured a research grant funded by the United States Tennis Association (Approximately $33,500).

In January 2023, Dr. Roth and Dr. Kim were invited to the United States Tennis Association Tennis & Pickleball Summit 2023, where they presented their research proposal (Exploring the Compatibility of Tennis and Pickleball) and shared ideas with board members and diverse stakeholders. Their research is currently being conducted in close collaboration with the United States Tennis Association and research assistants from the members of the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports.

At present, Dr. Roth and Dr. Kim conducted several focus group interviews with club directors, coaches, and players, and presented an interim report to the United States Tennis Association board members. They are also collecting survey data from a broader population, in conjunction with the United States Tennis Association. They collected data on 11,954 participants from both tennis and pickleball, and they expect to use approximately 8800 of these data for analysis. Further, they are developing an experimental study to determine whether pickleball can be used as part of a tennis development program.

Dr. Roth and Dr. Kim anticipate completing this project during the second half of this year and present it at the United States Tennis Association board meeting. They also plan to develop this into a research publication in the future.

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IRYSPAH LAB DR. LEPS MALETE The International Research on Youth Sport, Physical Activity, and Health (IRYSPAH) Lab, headed by Dr. Leps Malete, is geared towards using sport and physical activity (PA)-based positive youth development (PYD) programs to nurture life skills, health, well-being, and other positive outcomes in international youth populations. In Fall 2022, the IRYSPAH hosted the Youth Sport and Sustainable Development Symposium, in an effort to bring together faculty researchers from MSU, Botswana, Tanzania, and Ghana, as well as young practitioners across the globe, to discuss youth sport as a vehicle for promoting entrepreneurial mindsets, life skills, among other positive outcomes. In Fall 2022, Dr. Leps Malete also attended the Social Sciences and Humanities Conference at the University of Ghana, to present research findings from the COVID-19, PA, and Mental Health study, in collaboration with partners from Botswana, Ghana, Tanzania, and Nigeria. The project team is currently engaged in data analysis and manuscript writing for this project.

In Spring 2023, the Youth Physical Activity and Wellness Project (YPAW), funded by the Michigan Health Endowment Fund, and geared toward promoting youths’ life skills development and social emotional learning via PA, expanded project activities in Battle Creek, Michigan, to partner with the New Level Sports organization. Project activities are slated to begin in Summer 2023. The lab welcomed Joanna Davis, a Kinesiology undergraduate senior, who conducted fieldwork on coach behaviors and their effect on the selfefficacy and life skills development of high school female lacrosse athletes.

Leps Malete and Stephanie Winston, the Empowered Youth Program Manager, visited six counties in Kenya in April 2023, to meet with project staff and county youth groups and determine what they had learned from the project. Youth testimonials highlighted the transformation the project was making in youth livelihoods and wellbeing.

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IRYSPAH LAB (CONT'D) DR. LEPS MALETE Chelsi Ricketts, a Doctoral candidate in the IRYSPAH lab, presented on two lab projects at the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA) conference in Toronto, Canada in June 2023.

Specifically, Chelsi gave a verbal presentation from her dissertation research examining the associations among a positive body image, sport-confidence, and sport performance evaluations in Jamaican athletes, as well as a poster presentation on the associations among coach autonomy support, life skills acquisition, and PYD outcomes in Botswana athletes. Dr. Malete served as Chair of the Sport and Exercise Psychology Committee of NASPSPA 2023, and along with Dr. Spyridoula Vazou, they contributed to the delivery of a very successful conference in Toronto, Canada.

Kudos to members of the IRYSPAH Lab for achieving these milestones: David Mabuta successfully defended his doctoral dissertation and graduated in Spring 2023. Chelsi Ricketts successfully proposed her doctoral dissertation in Spring 2023, was awarded the 2023 KIN Endowed Fellowship, and was one of 10 recipients of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology 2023 Conference Student Abstract Awards. Joanna Davis graduated with a BS in Kinesiology in Spring 2023.

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DOCTORAL DISSERTATION MEREDITH WEKESSER, PH.D.

Dr. Meredith Wekesser's dissertation research builds upon her thesis work, which calls for future research to examine use of the Interpersonal Behaviors Questionnaire in Sport (IBQ) instrument with youth athletes to ensure scores are appropriately interpreted. The IBQ is grounded in a motivational framework (i.e., self-determination theory) and examines athletes’ perceptions of coaching behaviors that satisfy or thwart athletes’ basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness. The first phase of her mixed-methods dissertation examined validity evidence (i.e., internal structure, relations to other variables) for youths' responses to the IBQ. Phase two consisted of cognitive think-aloud interviews with youth athletes completing the IBQ to determine sources of error encountered during the question-answering process. Then, modifications were applied to create a revised, youth friendly instrument, the Youth Interpersonal Behaviors Questionnaire in Sport (Y-IBQ).

Phase three provided reliability and validity evidence for the Y-IBQ instrument in a sample of youth athletes. Her dissertation contributes to the broader field of sport and exercise psychology by providing a quality measurement tool that can be used to examine youth athletes’ perceptions of coach behaviors that impact basic need satisfaction and dissatisfaction in sport. After completion of her dissertation work, she will utilize Y-IBQ instrument to continue studying youth sport coaches and ways their behaviors contribute to athlete outcomes.

DOCTORAL RESEARCH LAUREN SECARAS, MS

Lauren's research centers around conflict in sport, and findings from her research are used to develop conflict management workshops for athletes and coaches. She is currently working on a scoping review. Intrateam conflict research has yet to be consolidated, and this review paper seeks to identify the sources, outcomes, and management strategies of intrateam conflict that are present in sport research. Her dissertation work will build off the results of the scoping review and further explore intrateam conflict, likely within collegiate sport teams.

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LANSING PUBLIC SCHOOLS WORKSHOP SERIES The Institute has long been committed to staying engaged with its surrounding communities and this year we were delighted to partner with Mr. Chris Henderson, the athletic director of the Lansing School District, to offer a series of workshops to local high school and middle school students athletes.

ISYS graduate students collaborated to produce three separate workshops for students engaged in sessions focused on social and emotional development.

The workshops included a round robin style of sessions, where students were split into groups and rotated through the various sessions, all led by ISYS graduate students. Session topics included: teamwork, leadership, communication, conflict management, and mindfulness. Hosted at the Don Johnson Fieldhouse, sessions took full advantage of using the large space where groups could sit and practice mindfulness skills, engage in role play with conflict management, practicing their drawing and communication skills, write and reflect on their leadership styles, and successfully cross the lava river with their teammates. During these sessions the student athletes got the chance to interact with peers from different schools within the district and learn valuable lessons that they could take home to their own teams.

These workshops provided over 100 high school and 93 middle school student athletes the chance to take a half day off of school to learn and to have fun. Eight of the Institute’s own graduate students enjoyed the challenge of providing fun and engaging workshops to such a large number of students and were very grateful for the opportunity to share their work with the local community. A special thanks to them for their hard work, creativity, flexibility, and enthusiasm. These workshops would not have been possible without them.

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PARTNERSHIP WITH MHSAA The Institute has continued its long-standing partnership with the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) for the 2022-2023 academic year. As a part of the partnership, an ISYS graduate student has served as a Graduate Assistant to assist with student-athlete development and coach education initiatives for the MHSAA. This year, Dr. Kylee Ault-Baker continued to serve in this role. ISYS was able to help facilitate the Student Advisory Council meetings and Sportsmanship Summit programming (led by MHSAA’s Andy Frushour), as well as organizing ISYS’s presentations for the Women in Sports Leadership conference held in October (led by MHSAA’s Kathy Westdorp). In addition to the yearly recurring MHSAA-ISYS programming mentioned above, ISYS alumni Dr. Scott Pierce and Dr. Jed Blanton led the updating of the online captain’s training course hosted by the National Federation of High School Association (NFHS) with Dr. Dan Gould and Dr. Kylee AultBaker assisting. This project was originally created by the ISYS team and has now been updated on the NFHS website to include two separate leadership training courses for athletes (“Becoming a Leader” and “Leading Others”), and will soon add a course for coaches to learn how to teach leadership skills to their athletes. The updates to these courses are a result of the established partnership with the MHSAA and Andy Frushour who logistically and financially supported the project with the NFHS and ISYS. The Institute is looking forward to continuing their work with the MHSAA to serve local student-athletes and coaches in the state of Michigan.

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MODULES ON PROTECTING YOUTH ATHLETES FROM ABUSE Created in collaboration with the National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS) the videos provide practical strategies to create safe environments, promote the well-being of young athletes and recognize and report abusive behaviors.

Content for the modules was reviewed and approved by MSU’s Prevention, Outreach and Education Department, MSU Police and Public Safety, members of MSU’s Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct, or RVSM, Expert Advisory Workgroup, and leadership from The Army of Survivors, an external organization dedicated to ending sexual abuse against young athletes.

Funding for the development and evaluation of the learning modules was provided by the MSU Office of the Provost. WKAR Public Media, a university-affiliated broadcasting service, produced the videos.

The videos are hosted on the NAYS website. Like MSU’s Institute for the Study of Youth Sports, NAYS has a mission of educating youth sports leaders, volunteers and parents with training courses to ensure quality youth sport experiences. They also have partnerships with 3,000 community-based organizations around the country, extending the outreach potential.

The modules, applicable to all sporting disciplines for ages six to 18, will now undergo a round of evaluations to learn about effectiveness and areas of improvement. Every individual who watches the videos will complete a survey about their learning experience, which will help inform future edits.

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SPORT COACHING, LEADERSHIP, AND ADMINISTRATION GRADUATE PROGRAMS Since its inception in 2015, the Sport Coaching, Leadership, and Administration online graduate programs have been highly integrated with the ISYS, with faculty members serving the institute and students participating in the Institute’s annual Summer Coaches’ School. The graduate programs have expanded substantially over the past three years.

In the past year, we officially launched our sport administration concentration which features three distinct courses and a smattering of special topics courses. In conjunction with the degree concentration, we launched a 13-credit graduate certificate program in Sport Leadership and Administration. These additions have kept our enrollment growing steadily during a challenging time for higher education.

New Colleagues!

In 2022, we welcomed four new colleagues to our program: Dr. Sanghoon Kim, Ms. Sarah Miloshoff, Dr. Rick McNeil, and Mr. Pelle Kvalsund.

Dr. Sanghoon Kim joined us after completing his Ph.D. in the Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management at Texas A&M University. Previously, he earned a master’s degree in Sport Management at Florida State University, and a bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology at Yeungnam University in South Korea. Dr. Kim has spent the last year getting accommodated with Michigan State, but has taken to teaching in our online program very quickly, forming strong relationships with the students he advises and teaches. Sanghoon has stayed active on the research front, bringing a unique perspective from the realm of sport marketing to a project with the US Tennis Association with colleague Jenny Roth. After having lived in Florida and Texas for many years, he and his family were thrilled with our sub-zero arctic blast and white Christmas in 2022!

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SPORT COACHING, LEADERSHIP, AND ADMINISTRATION GRADUATE PROGRAMS For many years, we have struggled to keep pace with the administrative demands of running an online graduate program. Fortunately, Ms. Sarah Miloshoff has answered the call as our new program coordinator. Sarah began her work in early October of 2022, and quickly helped us to get organized and put better systems in place. She participated thoroughly in our strategic program assessment, maintains our social media presence, markets the program, and helps us recruit and onboard new students. We were able to recruit our largest incoming cohort for Summer/Fall 2023 thanks to her efforts. If you’ve been enjoying our newsletters, we have Sarah to thank, as she has also served in a coordinator role for the Institute. Sarah is also completing a master’s degree in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education (HALE) right here in the College of Education.

Many alumni and friends of the Institute will know Dr. Rick McNeil from his extensive advising work with sport administration students over the past 20+ years. In 2022, Dr. McNeil formally began advising students in the sport administration concentration and graduate certificate programs. We are thrilled to have Rick as a colleague and a valuable resource for our faculty and students. If you know Rick, you also know that he is the Director of Recreational Sports at Michigan State, and has spent his career advocating for better rec sports facilities for the university community. In 2023, the Board of Trustees approved the construction of a state-of-the-art rec sports facility. We have Rick to thank for his tireless advocacy.

Mr. Pelle Kvalsund also joined our team as an adjunct instructor in Fall 2022, sharing instructional duties for our practicum in coaching and leadership, and serving on advising committees for six students.

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SPORT COACHING, LEADERSHIP, AND ADMINISTRATION GRADUATE PROGRAMS Pelle is a coach developer by trade, having worked nearly 20 years with the Norwegian Confederation of Sport in positions around the world, primarily in Southern Africa. He has also served as a coach developer with the International Council for Coaching Excellence. Pelle always has great thought-provoking questions for students taking their oral exams or proposing their capstone projects. Having been an inaugural student in the SCLA program (graduating in 2019), he also understands the importance of integrating scientific evidence with coaching and sport leadership practice.

He is a great asset and advocate for our program, and for the education of sport practitioners broadly speaking.

Strategic Program Assessment One of our major undertakings of the past year was a strategic program assessment to analyze our graduate programs’ strengths and weaknesses, and areas where we can improve in the future. We were especially grateful for the current students and alumni that completed our survey; your honest feedback was a cornerstone of our analysis. Students and alumni reported very positive perceptions of advising and mentoring in the program. They were generally very confident in their abilities relative to our program competencies. A few things that concerned us were the lack of female students in the program, and the surprising lack of social support that students receive from peers, supervisors, and close family/friends while they are enrolled in this program. These challenges will help shape our strategic efforts over the coming 1-3 years.

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SPORT COACHING, LEADERSHIP, AND ADMINISTRATION GRADUATE PROGRAMS Over the next 2 years, our primary plan is to expand our sport administration curriculum and course offerings, and to hire an additional full-time faculty member (non tenure track) with sport administration expertise. This will help bring our sport administration curriculum into line with the most competitive master’s degree programs in the country.

2022-23 Program Graduates Fully one-third of our alumni (18 of 53) graduated in the past year (US22, FS22, or SS23). Our students graduate in all three semesters, so our faculty were busy serving on capstone committees last year!

This year, we saw the first four graduates with our revamped sport administration concentration. Kiana Verdugo is the Senior Woman Administrator and Associate Athletic Director for Compliance at Alma College. Isabel Kolanowski graduated in Fall ‘22 and has been working with the Oakland County Football Club, a community-driven semi-professional soccer team in Royal Oak, Michigan. Gavin Parker continued his work as the managing director of event production for the Seattle Pride Hockey Association, overseeing the largest Pride Month hockey tournament in the United States. Brandon DeSmyter works as a sales consultant in Southern California and continues to explore several sport-related start-up ventures.

Steve Luukkonen finished his degree in Summer ‘22 just as he was beginning a new journey as the Athletics and Activities Director at the Rabat American School (Rabat, Morocco). Jim Rhodes finished his degree in November while taking on new responsibilities in his deployment with the US Army.

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SPORT COACHING, LEADERSHIP, AND ADMINISTRATION GRADUATE PROGRAMS Grant Thomas completed his degree in April while completing several coaching assignments, including video analysis for USA Rugby and getting his kids involved in multiple winter sports, including ski jumping. We also enjoy Grant’s occasional dispatches about his “ecological dynamics approach to parenting,” and we’re glad to see our lessons have made their mark.

Several recent alumni have entered the ranks of college coaching or moved up in their respective positions. Luke Campbell finished his degree in Summer ‘22, did another internship in strength and conditioning (this time at Ohio State), and this summer he became the associate Director of Sports Performance at Valparaiso University, serving as the head strength and conditioning coach for football and women’s basketball. Tanner Thompson continued his work as an Assistant Coach for the men’s soccer team at Indiana University, accompanying the team to the NCAA College Cup final game; Indiana suffered a heartbreaking loss to Syracuse on penalty kicks.

Tanner used his capstone project to plan the reboot of the Indiana soccer day camp in Summer ‘23. Matt Sciumbato finished his degree in Spring ‘23 and continues his work as the offensive line coach at California Lutheran University. We had a few graduate assistant coaches for MSU teams graduate: Ian Jones (Spring ‘23, graduate assistant coach for men’s basketball), and both Jack Tabb (Fall ‘22) and Bo Els (Spring ‘23) rounded out stints as graduate assistant coaches for football. Patrick Page, a tennis pro for the MSU Tennis Center and also assistant coach for the MSU women’s tennis team, finished his degree while developing a tennis coaching book for his capstone; we eagerly hope that Patrick publishes this book in the near future. Finally, Lucia Procopio finished her degree in Spring ‘23 while serving as an assistant fencing coach at Renaissance Fencing Club.

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SPORT COACHING, LEADERSHIP, AND ADMINISTRATION GRADUATE PROGRAMS One of the unique developments over the past four years has been the increasing number of MSU athletes that have pursued our programs. Many athletes complete their undergraduate degrees before their NCAA eligibility has ended, necessitating graduate education if they wish to continue competing. We have been impressed with what our recent students have done while balancing the demanding full-time graduate student course load with Big Ten competition. Michael Davenport competed as a pole vaulter from 2021-2023 and for his internship, he developed a coaching clinic for jumps and throws that he delivered to coaches of the Grand Rapids Public Schools in March. Kyle Napier competed for two years with the cheer squad at MSU, and also completed an internship in strength and conditioning. Jason Whitens competed for two years with men’s basketball and for his internship, created a full business plan for his summer camp for kids in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We also had several students complete one of our graduate certificate programs (Sport Coaching, or Sport Leadership and Administration): John Malcom and Sam Thompson (baseball); Justin Jallen, Ryan Nolan, Dylan St. Cyr, and Michael Underwood (men’s ice hockey); Bryce Baringer and Drew Jordan (football); Eli Hamer (student manager with men’s basketball).

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PUBLICATIONS Ault, K. J., Blanton, J., & Pierce, S. Student-athletes' perceptions of relationship quality and life skills development Burghardt, W. P., Pfeiffer, K. A., & Kuenze, C.Assessing the Relationship Between External Workloads and Noncontact Injuries During Summer Conditioning and Preseason Practice in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division 1 Football Players. The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, 37(4), 816-822.

Chang K., Uhm, J.-P., Kim, S., & Lee, H.-W. Paradoxical relationship between toxicity and toxicity tolerance: Moderated mediation by gender and positive reappraisal Coping.

International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship.

Clevenger, K. A., Mackintosh, K. A., McNarry, M. A., Pfeiffer, K.A., Montoye, A. H., & Brønd, J. C. Comparison of Child and Adolescent Physical Activity Levels From Open-Source Versus ActiGraph Counts. Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour, 5(2), 120-128 Clevenger, K.A., McKee, K.L., Pfeiffer, K.A. Classroom Location, Activity Type, and Physical Activity During Preschool Children's Indoor Free-Play. Early Childhood Educ J 50, 425–434 Clevenger, K.A., Pfeiffer, K.A. Comparison of Physical Activity Environments in Michigan Home-Based and Licensed Childcare Programs. Translational Journal of the ACSM, 7(2) Clevenger, K.A., Pfeiffer, K.A. Teacher-report of where preschool-aged children play and are physically active in indoor and outdoor learning centers. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 20(1):3-12 Gould, D., Pierce, S., Wright, E. An Autoethnographic account and interpretation of sport related life skills development. International Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 21(2), 175-195. DOI:10.1080/1612197X.2022.2147260 Kim, J., Tamminen, K. A., Bissett, J. E., Danyluck, C., Wolf, S. A., McEwen, C., & Wagstaff, C. R. D. “I hate it when that happens too!”: Observed and perceived exchanges of social support between university student-athletes during discussions of stressors.

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PUBLICATIONS Kim, J., Eys, M., & Robertson-Wilson, J. Attraction toward physical activity as a moderator of socio-cognitive predictors of physical activity Kim, S., Yu, H. Y., & Lee, H.-W. Motivational determinants of digital ticketing: the mediating effect of service satisfaction and the moderating effect of psychological discomfort. International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship. †Lee, S., Patel, P., Myers, N.D., Pfeiffer, K.A., Smith, A.L. & Kelly, K.S. A Systematic Review of eHealth Interventions to Promote Physical Activity in Adults with Obesity or Overweight, Behavioral Medicine.

Lima R.A., Drenowatz C., Pfeiffer, K.A. Expansion of Stodden et al.'s Model. Sports Med., 52(4):679-683 Malete, L., Rickets, C., Chen, S., Jackson, J. Correlates of physical activity among adults in Botswana: Sociodemographic factors, health status, and body image. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 19(9), 599-606. https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2022-0243 Malete, L., Rickets, C., Kim, S., Tshube, T., Mphela, T., Adamba, C., Ocansey, R. An examination of the latent structure and reproducibility of the life skills scale for sport in Botswana and Ghana. Frontiers in Psychology: Movement Science and Sport Psychology,13:858406. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.858406.

Marshall, M. R., Montoye, A. H., Conway, M. R., Schlaff, R. A., Pfeiffer, K. A., & Pivarnik, J. M. Location, Location, Location: Accelerometer Placement Affects Steps-Based Physical Activity Outcomes During Pregnancy and Postpartum. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 17(1), 123-130.

Matthews, A. D., Costa, G., Erickson, K., Pfeiffer, K. A., Pearson, A. L., Dougherty, B. V. Community members’ perspectives on a community-engaged process for supporting vibrant greenspaces in Detroit. Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 14(4), 26-41.

Mavilidi, M. F., Pesce, C., Benzing, V., Schmidt, M., Paas, F., Okely, A. D., Vazou, S. Metaanalysis of movement-based interventions to aid academic and behavioral outcomes: A taxonomy of relevance and integration. Educational Research Review, 37, 100478.

McCole, D., Malete, L., Tshube, T. Mphela, T., Maro, C., Adamba, C., Machuve, J., Ocansey, R. Sparking entrepreneurial tendencies in youth: Lessons from sport and life skills education in three African cities. International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, 15(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.5130/ijcre.v15i2.8207.

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PUBLICATIONS †McGowan, A.L., Gerde, H.K., Pfeiffer, K.A., & Pontifex, M.B. Meeting 24-hour movement behavior guidelines in young children: Improved quantity estimation and self-regulation.

Early Education and Development Myers, N., Lee, S., Bateman, A., Wekesser, M., Prilleltensky, I., McMahon, A., Brincks, A. Initial validity evidence for responses to the newly developed Well-Being Actions SelfEfficacy Scale from adults with obesity under an exploratory latent variable approach.

Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science Ocansey, R. O., Nyawornota, V., Adamba, C., Tay, D., Musah, K., Nyanyofio, O. C., Malete, L., and McCole, D. Promoting development of entrepreneurial mindsets of youth in Ghana through a structured sport intervention program. Frontiers in Education, 8:1135084, https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1135084 Pacewicz, C.E., Hill, C.R., Lee, S., Myers, N.D., Prilleltensky, I., McMahon, A., Pfeiffer, K.A., & Brincks, A.M. Testing Measurement Invariance in Physical Education and Exercise Science: A Tutorial Using the Well-Being Self-Efficacy Scale. Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 26:2, 165-177 Park, S., Kim, S. Book Chapters: Rosie Ruiz and Boston Marathon. In J. Sanderson (Ed.).

Corruption and Scandal in American Sport. ABL-CIO Press.

Park, S., Kim, S. Book Chapters: Minnesota Basketball and Academic Fraud. In J. Sanderson (Ed.). Corruption and Scandal in American Sport. ABL-CIO Press.

Park, S. Kim, S. Book Chapters: Cardinals Hack Astros Computers. In J. Sanderson (Ed.).

Corruption and Scandal in American Sport. ABL-CIO Press.

Park, S., Kim, S., Ahn, S. The effect of avatar identification on metaverse game evaluation: The moderated mediation effect of perceived risk. Journal of Consumption Culture. 25(4), 211-232. Funded by the Nexon Research Grant in 2021.

Park, S., Kim, S., Ahn, S. The role of consumers' construal level in art-infusion-type effect on retail product evaluation. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Service.

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PUBLICATIONS Park, S., Kim, S., Ahn, S. Understanding the effect of art infusion type on retail product shopping: An attention to the intervening role of consumers’ financial wealth. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Service. †Petit, K.M., Kuenze, C.M., Pfeiffer, K.A., Fitton, N., Saffarian, M., Covassin, T. Relationship between physical activity participation and recovery outcomes in college-aged adults with a concussion. Journal of athletic training, 57(5):452-57 Pfeiffer, K.A., Clevenger, K.A., Kaplan, A., Van Camp, C.A., Strath, S.J., Montoye, A.H.K. Accessibility and use of novel methods for predicting physical activity and energy expenditure using accelerometry: a scoping review. Physiological Measurement Pfeiffer, K.A., Lisee, C., Westgate, B.S., Kalfsbeek, C., Kuenze, C., Bell, D., CadmusBertram, L. & Montoye, A.H.K. Using Accelerometers to Detect Activity Type in a Sport Setting: Challenges with Using Multiple Types of Conventional Machine Learning Approaches. Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science Pfeiffer, K.A., McKee, K. L., Van Camp, C. A., & Clevenger, K. A. Physical Activity Interventions During Childhood and Adolescence: A Narrative Umbrella Review Addressing Characteristics, Conclusions, and Gaps in Knowledge. Kinesiology Review, 1(aop), 1-11.

Purcell, R., Walton, C. C., Tamminen, K. A., Frost, J., Gwyther, K., Kerr, G., Kim, J., Pilkington, V., Rice, S., & Henderson, J. Starting young to protect elite athlete mental health (editorial) †Quinn, M.A., Pritchard, A., Visker, J., McPeek, A.C., Raghuvanshi, R., Martin C.H., WelletteHunsucker, A., Leszczynski, E.C., McCabe, L.R., Pfeiffer, K.A., Quinn, R., & Ferguson, D.P. Longitudinal Effects of Growth Restriction on the Murine Gut Microbiome and Metabolome. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism Ramírez Varela, A., Hallal, P. C., Mejía Grueso, J. et al. Status and trends of physical activity surveillance, policy, and research in 164 Countries: Findings from the Global Observatory for Physical Activity-GoPA! 2015 and 2020 Surveys. Journal of Physical Activity & Health, Dec:1-17. DOI: 10.1123/jpah.2022-0464, PMID: 36535269

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PUBLICATIONS Ricketts, C., Malete, L., Myers, N.D., Bateman, A.G., & James Bateman, C. Sport bodies: An examination of positive body image, sport-confidence, and subjective sport performance in Jamaican athletes Rosenkranz, R. R., Dixon, P. M., Dzewaltowski, D. A., McLoughlin, G. M., Lee, J. A., Chen, S., Vazou, S., Lanningham-Foster, L.L., Gentile, G. & Welk, G. J. (2023). A cluster-randomized trial comparing two SWITCH implementation support strategies for school wellness intervention effectiveness. Journal of Sport and Health Science, 12(1), 87-96.

Suriyawong, W.,* Kao, T. A., Robbins, L. B., Ling, J., Malete, L. Psychosocial determinants of recommended lifestyle behaviors among hypertensive patients: An integrative literature review. Western Journal of Nursing Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/01939459221144177 Uhm, J.-P., Kim. S., Do, C., Lee, H.-W. Augmented Reality experience in sport ecommerce: Effect of proximity sensing and interactive technology on purchasing behavior. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services.

Uhm, J.-P., Kim, S., Lee, H.-W. Stimulating suspense in gamified virtual reality sports: Effect on flow, fun, and behavioral intention. International Journal of Human Computer Interaction.

Wekesser, M., Costa, G., Pasik, P., Erickson, K. "It shaped my future in ways I wasn’t prepared for—in the best way possible”: Volunteers’ experiences in an adaptive sports and recreation program. Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly Welser, L., Pfeiffer, K. A., Silveira, J. F. D. C., Valim, A. R. D. M., Renner, J. D. P., & Reuter, C. P. Incidence of Arterial Hypertension is Associated with Adiposity in Children and Adolescents. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 120, e20220070.

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