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Item Golden Eagles Fall 7-2 to Concordia Moorhead(University of Minnesota Crookston, 2015-03-09) Smith, ShawnItem Hometown News, January and May 1985(University of Minnesota, 1985) University of Minnesota. Women's Intercollegiate AthleticsItem Hometown News, November 1993-May 1994(University of Minnesota, 1994) University of Minnesota. Women's Intercollegiate AthleticsItem Hometown News, November 1994-May 1995(University of Minnesota, 1995) University of Minnesota. Women's Intercollegiate AthleticsItem Hometown News, October 1990-May 1991(University of Minnesota, 1991) University of Minnesota. Women's Intercollegiate AthleticsItem Hometown News, October 1991-May 1992(University of Minnesota, 1992) University of Minnesota. Women's Intercollegiate AthleticsItem Hometown News, October 1992-May 1993(University of Minnesota, 1993) University of Minnesota. Women's Intercollegiate AthleticsItem Hometown News, September 1986-June 1987(University of Minnesota, 1987) University of Minnesota. Women's Intercollegiate AthleticsItem Minnesota Crookston Has 41 Student-Athletes Earn D2 ADA Academic Achievement Awards for 2018-19(University of Minnesota Crookston, 2019-09-25) Smith, Shawn D.Item A qualitative case study of a collegiate tennis program's sport moral atmosphere(2014-11) Valentini, Thomas PatrickPractitioners and supporters of sport anecdotally believe that sport ought to enhance and educate those who play. Improved moral functioning (often referred to as "character") is one of the most crucial "other things" that many parents, coaches, and administrators hope athletes learn through athletic participation. A problematic incongruence was the impetus for the current study. Competitive sport, one of our culture's prized character-building enterprises, does not always build character.Solving the incongruence between sport as a character-building enterprise in theory and a character-depleting enterprise in practice requires a teleological shift that situates sport as a moral education endeavor. The question of how to facilitate the shift is of paramount importance. A small body of researchers explore, examine, and theorize connections between sport and various moral variables. One of the key conclusions of this previous research is that the collective norms and values of a team have an influence on the moral action of the team's members. To explain this relationship, researchers often point to the concept of moral atmosphere that originated in the moral education research of Lawrence Kohlberg and his colleagues (Power, Higgins, & Kohlberg, 1989). The purpose of this study was to examine the concept of moral atmosphere, as developed by Power et al. (1989), including the sub-concepts of collective norms and institutional value, through a qualitative case study of one college sport program. A future application of this research may help coaches and athletes understand how to consciously and deliberately create and maintain high functioning moral atmospheres in collegiate sport so that team moral atmospheres can promote moral development for the group and individual team members. This cannot be done, however, without a study that first examined one team community in light of Kohlberg and colleagues' (1989) concept of moral atmosphere so that the collective norms and institutional valuing of a program that attempts to provide a moral education curriculum can be better understood. This moral atmosphere examination was the purpose of the present study. Results of the study showed that collective norms and institutional value were closely related. High levels of institutional value and stages of community were correlated with team norms that were higher in degree of collectiveness, reasoned at higher stages, and that the team upheld more frequently than when the team's level of institutional value and stage of community were at lower levels. The results also showed that the development of a high functioning moral atmosphere required years of time and intention from the coach. Furthermore, the results suggest that team leaders had a crucial impact on the team's moral atmosphere, and that the coach and team members used narrative as tool to build institutional value, and to develop and promote collective norms.Item Using Video-Based Deliberate Practice Training Techniques To Improve Serve Return Performance And Self-Efficacy In Collegiate Tennis Players(2020-03) Kronzer, JosephDeliberate practice is a theory and a method of expertise development described as the act of practicing a skill in a way that is focused on skill development, repetitious, optimally challenging, and has immediate, correctable feedback (Ericsson, 2016). During this study, the collegiate tennis players in the experimental group engaged with a deliberate practice, video-based perceptual training program designed to help the athletes anticipate and react to the location of a serve. The athletes trained on computers before practice four days per week for four weeks and completed on-court performance testing daily to measure increases to performance. Using both ANCOVA and MANCOVA modeling, group and sex differences in on-court performance in both drill and match scenarios were compared. Despite not having statistical significance, effect sizes showed the experimental and female groups consistently outperform the control and male groups, respectively.