The Tucker Center and the University of Minnesota Athletic Department are pleased to announce the return and official 2012 selections of the??Tucker Center Film Festival. The festival will take place on January 30, 2012, at TCF Bank Stadium in the DQ Club Room and will feature the Midwest Premiere … [Read more...]
Tucker Center Film Festival Returns in 2012
+ACY-nbsp+ADs The Tucker Center and the University of Minnesota Athletic Department are pleased to announce the return and official 2012 selections of the+ACY-nbsp+ADs-Tucker Center Film Festival. The festival will take place on January 30, 2012, at TCF Bank Stadium in the DQ Club Room and will feature the Midwest … [Read more...]
3 Concrete Actions That Can Make a Difference for Girls & Women in Sport
On November 2, 2011 we, the Tucker Center, hosted a one day conference on creating change for girls and women in sport. There was a great deal of dialogue amongst participants as to how to achieve such change. You can see the collage of pictures from our Photobooth on our Facebook page. Here are 3 … [Read more...]
Tucker Center Girls & Women in Sport Conference a Success
On November 2, 2011 over 150 participants gathered on the University of Minnesota campus to discuss current issues in girls and women and to discuss strategies of change at a conference hosted by the Tucker Center. In the 40 years since the passage of Title IX, females are participating in sport in … [Read more...]
Refuting “Sex Sells” Women’s Sport
The Nation magazine … [Read more...]
Call For Papers: Girls & Women in Sport & Physical Activity: Creating Change
The Tucker Center for Research on Girls +ACY Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota is hosting an exciting conference Wednesday, November 2, 2011 in Minneapolis, MN, preceding the annual meeting of the North American Society of Sport Sociology. +ACI-Girls +ACY Women in Sport +ACY Physical Activity: … [Read more...]
Watch the video of “The Female Athlete and Concussions”
The video of our Spring 2011 Distinguished Lecture on +ACI-The Female Athlete and Concussions+ACI is now available online, free of charge. Featuring Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., Jill Brooks, Ph.D., and Aynsley Smith, Ph.D., R.N. Recent research findings in multiple academic … [Read more...]
Female athletes and concussion
Our Spring Distinguished Lecture Series is tomorrow, Thursday April 14, 7-9pm CST on +ACI-The Female Athlete and Concussions.+ACI Recent research findings in multiple academic disciplines have sparked a much-needed national conversation about the rising incidence, severity, and consequences of … [Read more...]
A chance to listen: I’m not just a coach, I’m a female coach
Maya Hamilton is an Assistant Swim Coach at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Blog written by Kinesiology graduate student Maya Hamilton. Sometimes the research on the lack of females in coaching and the issues they face seems like a broken record. There are countless theories that try to … [Read more...]
Perceptions of leadership in sport
Blog written by Kinesiology graduate student and doctoral candidate Vicki Schull The connection between sport leadership and masculinity is particularly strong given the history of sport, which is steeped in a culture of male dominance and control, and associated with masculine traits and ideals … [Read more...]