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Student Profiles

Sport Psychology graduate students typically apply their knowledge and skills to careers in teaching, coaching, and athletic training. Our alumni have earned positions as university and community college instructors, head college coaches, physical education teachers and coaches in K-12 schools, and athletic trainers in college and community settings. Our students have also gained entrance into leading sport psychology doctoral programs at schools such as Boston University, Florida State University, Louisiana State University, Oregon State University, and the University of Northern Colorado.

The diversity, and success, of our students is highlighted in profiles of some of our alumni.

  • David Barton (dbarto@fresno.k12.ca.us)is currently employed as a physical education teacher and the varsity football coach at McLane High School in Fresno, CA.
  • Brent Hansen (wnmuhoops@hotmail.com)is currently employed as the head women's basketball coach at Western New Mexico State University.
  • Dr. Coreen Harada (Coreen.Harada@umb.edu)completed her doctoral degree from Boston University in 2007 and is currently employed as the co-director of the Special Olympics Global Collaborating Center at the University of Massachusetts.
  • Sarah Hawkins (McCord) (shawkins@ithaca.edu)is currently employed as the program coordinator for recreational sports at Ithaca College, NY.
  • Crystal Johnson (cjohnson2@csub.edu)is currently employed as a lecturer and PEAK Performance consultant in the Department of Physical Education & Kinesiology at California State University, Bakersfield.
  • Sharon Kerr (www.totalgolfcoach.com)is currently employed as a golf professional and mental training coach in Fresno, CA.
  • Dr. Nicole Kulikov-Hagobian (nkulikov@hcc.mass.edu)is currently employed as an assistant professor in the Department of Health, Fitness & Nutrition at Holyoke Community College, MA.
  • Brittany Loney (bsl07c@fsu.edu)is currently enrolled as a doctoral student in Educational Psychology with a major in Sport Psychology at Florida State University.
  • Kristen Mattox (kmattox@sbcglobal.net)is currently employed in a tenure-track position teaching health, physical education, and sport psychology at State Center Community College in Madera, CA.
  • Amy McRae (amymcrae@mvcs.org)is currently employed as a physical education teacher and girls' volleyball coach at Monte Vista Christian School in Watsonville, CA.
  • Dave Neer (www.westhillscollege.com/lemoore/athletics/mens_golf/coaches.asp)is currently employed as the head men's and women's golf coach and an instructor at West Hills Community College - Lemoore.
  • Allyson Niino (niino_15@yahoo.com)is currently employed as the athletics/activities director at Washington Academic Middle School in Sanger, CA.
  • Adam Smith (donuts@csufresno.edu)is currently employed as the research director for the Fresno Institute of Health and Fitness and will be starting a doctoral program in psychology, research and evaluation at Walden University in 2007.
  • Costas Tsouloupas (costantinos79@hotmail.com)is currently enrolled as a doctoral student at Louisiana State University.
  • Mary-tyler Wahl (mtwahl@hotmail.com)is currently employed as the director of sports ministry at Mountain View Community Church in Fresno, CA.