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August 7, 2002
Six hired for BYU-Idaho Activities Program
REXBURG, Idaho
– Brigham Young University-Idaho has hired six new employees to help
direct the new Activities Program.
Philip Crane, Troy Dougherty, Trent Shippen and Peter Stilling will serve as competitive
sports program directors, Lisa Robison will
serve as the fitness specialist and Leon Anderson will serve as the director
of the Hart Building and the new
fitness area.
The competitive sports directors will train
student coaches who will run the competitive level of the athletics program.
Unlike intramurals, which has a strong social emphasis, the athletic level of
sports will include coaching, training, scheduled practices and uniforms.
“The intent is to have this be very
competitive,” Activities Program Director Devin Shaum
said. “It will require less of a time commitment than traditional
intercollegiate athletics but will exist to help students develop and
participate at more of a competitive level.”
The
number of teams at both the competitive level and the intramural level are
yet to be determined. The competitive sports directors plan to initiate the
teams in a myriad of ways, including both tryouts and drafts.
In
their sports’ off-seasons, the new directors will be involved in other
areas and programs.
“They
will be involved in other activities,” Shaum
said. “This is a very diverse team of people.”
Approximately
75 applied for the administrative positions. More will be hired to augment
the Activities Program as it grows.
“We
are thrilled with the quality of people who are coming here,” Shaum said. “They have faith and vision. We want to
help students have activities that will change their lives.”
Anderson
is owner of New Life Fitness in Nampa,
Idaho.
He has also worked as an account manager for the Hewlett-Packard Boise
corporate fitness wellness center. He is certified as an American
College
of Sports Medicine health and fitness instructor. He attended Ricks
College
and subsequently earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise and sports
studies at Utah
State
University
and his master’s degree in exercise and sports studies at Boise
State
University.
Crane,
who will direct the softball and baseball programs, has worked as a
cardiovascular disease program manager at the Bear River Health Department
and as a physical education and health education teacher at USU, both in Logan,
Utah.
He played baseball at Ricks
College
and later earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise science. He will
receive his master’s degree in health education at USU at the end of
this month.
Dougherty,
who will direct the volleyball program, has been a physical education activity
instructor at Iowa
State
University,
where he taught volleyball, basketball, tennis, badminton, bowling, archery
and fitness walking. He was also a quarterback coach at Grinnell
College
in Grinnell,
Iowa.
He holds three NCAA Division III records: most yards/attempt in a season,
most games passing for 200 yards or more in a season, and most consecutive
games passing for 200 yards or more in a season. He received his
bachelor’s degree from Grinnell and a master’s degree in sports
management from Iowa
State.
Robison,
currently a member of the physical education faculty at BYU-Idaho, will be
the fitness specialist in the Activities Program. She has worked at BYU-Idaho
since 1993. She also works as at the Sports and Fitness
Center
as a Certified Personal Trainer. She earned her associate’s degree from
Ricks
College
and is certified in Safe Aerobic Fitness and Exercise, National Strength and
Conditioning Association and American Council on Exercise.
Shippen, a native of Menan,
will direct the basketball program. He played at Ricks
College
where he earned All-Region 18 honors, and later at Colorado
State,
where he earned his bachelor’s degree. He later completed his
master’s degree at the University
of Utah.
He returned to Ricks
College
to coach basketball (both men’s and women’s) and has since
coached women’s basketball at BYU in Provo,
Utah.
Stilling,
who is currently a computer network analyst at BYU-Idaho, will direct the
soccer program. He is a coach for Ballistic Soccer Club in Idaho
Falls, the Idaho
chapter president for National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association
and president of the Snake River Soccer Officials Association. He is also
certified as a high school, college and United States Soccer Federation
referee. After serving in the Navy, where he played soccer for various teams,
he attended Ricks
College
and Utah Valley State College.
The
four components of the Activities Program are Arts, Enrichment, Physical, and
Social. Under Physical fall three categories: fitness, outdoor and sports; sports is divided into freeplay,
intramural and athletic.
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