Lindsay Dodge was recently promoted to the Southeast Regional Manager at the American Junior Golf Association. Lindsay is responsible for furthering the AJGA mission within the Southeast region by creating and maintaining positive relationships with sponsors, golf courses, parents, committee members, and golf industry leaders. On the sponsorship side, Lindsay is seeking tournament title sponsors along with promoting the AJGA brand and creating new revenue for AJGA tournaments. Lindsay also works on finding new venues for the upcoming years to ensure quality golf courses for AJGA members. In 2012, Lindsay will run three tournaments aside from her sponsorship duties. In this role, she coordinates, plans, and executes the golf tournaments to conduct a financially and operationally sound event. Lindsay has lived in Atlanta, Georgia for 1 year and is originally from Topeka, Kansas. The AJGA Headquarters is in Braselton, Georgia, which is about 40 minutes north of Atlanta.

This position manages and coordinates Area Health Education Center (AHEC) data, tracking, and outcomes measurement activities.  Also works collaboratively with the other members of the KCOM (Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine) AHEC Office Management team to develop proposals, grant applications, and assists with tracking grant and contract related performance.  Applicant must have college plus postgraduate studies in Business/Health Administration with one to two years’ experience in data entry and database management.  Call 660-626-2790 for salary range.

Every bowler dreams of 300 — the score of a perfect game. For one Truman State student, that game was missed by a mere three points on the final ball.

During his freshman year, senior Mason Einspahr bowled a 297 — a near perfect score.

“It’s close,” Mason said. “It was almost 300, but the very last ball I got a seven instead of a strike.”

This 297 did not come easily and only served as a single moment in a life-long passion, coming after years of practice and an entire childhood of bowling.

“There are some pictures of me being 2 or 3 and my dad is sitting behind me helping me push the ball,” Mason said.

For Mason, bowling is a family affair. He said both his parents bowled in leagues at B&J Bowl in Boonville, Mo., owned by family friends.

Mason said he joined an official league at 5 years old, but it wasn’t until around age 12 that he began competing in more serious tournaments with larger numbers of competitors and more experienced bowlers. Boasting a gold medal at the 2005 Show-Me State Games and various other achievements, Einspahr said he has competed at tournaments throughout Missouri and the Midwest.

At the end of May, he will bowl at nationals for the first time. This tournament will have stringent rules including dress codes, lane courtesy laws and serious weigh-ins for each person’s ball, Mason said.

Good Luck at Nationals, Mason!

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 Tick-tock… the clock strikes midnight and you clink your champagne glasses in celebration of the new year. And then have another glass of champagne, followed by a little more food. And maybe just one more glass of champagne. We have all been having the “little extra” in the name of celebrations and the little overindulgences add up. Even your resident wellness coach starts to feel the sins of her food transgressions after the holiday season! We can get right back on track and feel fit, fab and amazing in the new year without being a slave to diets or the gym.

1. Begin to record all the things you eat. During the holidays we slip up because we allow ourselves to indulge in all the little things in celebration of the season. I have clients write out what it is they are eating and they become more aware of why and when they decide to eat. Use this trick. There’s even research to suggest that sharing your weight loss efforts on social media – think Facebook and Twitter – leads to greater accountability and support.

2. Drink – and eat more – water! Your body is an amazing detox machine given the right food and plenty of hydration. There’s zero need for a crash diet or low-calorie starvation misery. Your liver will do all the work if you take the junk out of your diet – like processed and sugary foods – and give it plenty of water-based foods, like fruits and vegetables.

3. You don’t have to kill yourself at the gym to peel off a few extra pounds from the holiday season. Try one to two weeks of your pre-holiday routine and notice if your body corrects for the holidays. If you don’t have a favorite sweat-it-out routine take the advice of one of my favorite physicians, Dr. Mike Evans. His “prescription“ will have you back to the normal you in no time at all with a minimal amount of sweat.

4. We love to swear off our holiday transgressions with  “I’ll never…” statements. Turn these into positive statements and actions that lead to your goal. It’s difficult enough to eat healthy at times without Grandma’s famous cookies staring you down from across the kitchen. Clear out the tempting goodies, stock healthy foods and set reasonable goals, like trying to cook 3-4 healthy meals for yourself each week.

We all had our fun over the holidays and there’s zero shame in having had a little too much fun as long as you curb the holiday behaviors and put them away for the rest of the year. Recognizing what we can do to control holiday weight gain and learning from the previous year is a big help in staying healthy, happy and stylish all year long!

Erin Haslag, a 2005 Truman HES graduate and a board-certified holistic wellness coach, can be found at @WELLinLA where she writes too often about kale and shares ways to integrate wellness in all aspects of life.

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The Athletic Training Education Program is  excited to announce that the  December 2012 graduates passed their BOC (Board of Certification exam for Athletic Trainer’s) on the first attempt.   Congratulations to Kelsey Lockyer, Danielle Zee Cheng, and Michael Atkinson!  We’re very proud of you!

Dr. Jennifer Hurst was quoted in the article “Skip the gym? You’ll pay the penalty,” which appeared in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on December 28, 2011. The article discusses a new program called Gym Pact, which charges you money for skipping a workout.  It focuses on getting people who do not regularly exercise to do so by giving them an immediate consequence for not going to the gym.  Dr. Hurst addresses some of the hurdles that people need to overcome in order to successfully maintain a exercise schedule.

“The No. 1 reason people say they don’t exercise is time,” says Jennifer Hurst, professor of exercise science at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo. “Anybody can change for two weeks, but all of the sudden life comes in and you aren’t as motivated as you thought you would be.”

Hurst would like to see fitness centers play more of a consulting role to help people incorporate exercise into their lives.

“Fitness centers are designed for people who are ready to go,” Hurst says. “It’s going to take personal trainers who also have an understanding about behavior change processes, not just how to lift weights and use machines. People who will help you set goals and work the process of getting healthy into your life.”

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HLTH 150 students participated in filling Buddy Packs for local students.  The filled Buddy Packs go home on weekends with students who receive free student lunches so these children can eat nutritious foods while away from school.

The students pictured from left to right are: Julie Sanger, Christina Rejko, Kristie Moosmann, Jasmine Johnson, Lauren Hearold, and Collin Dobson.

The Health and Exercise Sciences Department is excited to announce the dedication of the Jane Barnett Memorial Display Case. Jane was a fixture in the department through four decades of service retiring in 1993. With Jane’s recent passing and in honor of her many contributions to the department, representatives of the Jane Barnett Estate have made a generous and on-going financial commitment to the HES General Fund in her name. Numerous artifacts from Jane’s long and storied career will be on display in the case for all to see. We invite you to stop by and see the various reflections of her considerable career.  *The above left picture shows Susan Thomas, Jane’s niece and ITS employee extraordinaire, presenting the first check to Dr. Chris Lantz, HES Department Chair.   The above right picture is of Jane holding court in front of Pershing Building with Larry Boleach.

I am the Minor League Assistant at Roger Dean Stadium, Spring Training home to the 2011 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals and Florida Marlins and their respective Class-A Advanced affiliates, the Palm Beach Cardinals and Jupiter Hammerheads. Roger Dean Stadium is the only stadium in the nation to house four professional baseball teams, easily making it the busiest ballpark in the country. We also host the two largest high school baseball tournaments in the country- USA Baseball and The Perfect Game. During Spring Training, I work all the games, assisting all the Cardinals and Marlins front offices with numerous tasks. I also emcee all on-field promotions. As the Minor League Assistant, I emcee all of the on-field promotions, as well as help prepare public address announcements and game scripts. I run our Education Day program where 10,000 kids throughout Martin and Palm Beach Countys in South Florida come to the stadium to do a mock press conference with a baseball player and enjoy a morning game at the ballpark. I also head up our Scout Night, where hundreds of Cub Scouts sleep over on the outfield lawn. With these programs, I do all the advertisement, sponsorship and ticket sales. I also am a group ticket sales representative, selling tickets to groups of 15 or more in South Florida and back home in St. Louis. I schedule all national anthem singers, 1st pitches and honorary bat kids. These are the main duties I have, but in Minor League baseball you must be prepared to wear many hats- I may stand with sponsors at batting practice one day and the next have to help at the gates. It depends on what day it is and how many people are in park. It has been the best experience of my life so far. One day- I will be working at Busch Stadium because of this opportunity I have been given!

“I got to stand on the field during batting practice, meet the players, meet the front office. My office was in the same hallway as Mozeliak’s for the entire month of March! I was living my dream that is for sure. I definitely did not see the postseason coming, but when the Braves started choking I started thinking more positively. What a huge win! I bet the campus was a sea of red; I sure do miss that. I am so happy I got to be a part of their organization this year and am counting down the days until pitchers and catchers report in February.  I would not be here today if it weren’t for all of the HES professors; you truly made my experience at Truman something I will never forget. “

TruAdventure is a summer excursion like no other – combining a great wilderness experience with wonderful learning and social opportunities. This seven-day program will reinvigorate your passion for the outdoors, your love of learning, and your sense of adventure as you visit breathtaking sites in the rugged parks of Colorado and Utah. Based on a wildly popular travel course designed for Truman undergraduates, TruAdventure has been adapted to meet the needs and interests of the adult traveler interested in a vacation that’s just a little off the beaten path.

Participants converge on Denver, Colorado for a Saturday night stay and Sunday morning departure by motor coach to Moab, Utah, where they spend two days and three nights visiting the sites surrounding Arches and Canyonlands National Parks.  On Wednesday participants arrive in the Cortez, Colorado, area where they explore the Anasazi Heritage Center, the Lowry Pueblo Ruins, and the Howenweep National Monument.  Thursday the tour continues to the Ute Mountain Tribal Park before transitioning to Salida, Colorado.  Friday morning adventurers arrive in Buena Vista, Colorado for a refreshing whitewater rafting adventure on the Arkansas River.  The journey concludes in Denver Friday night with time to relax and contemplate a return to our normal, less adventurous lives.

For more information, click on this link:  http://institute.truman.edu/truadventure.asp