First-year WSU student Sadie Chamberlain, who is majoring in Sport Management, has been involved in hands-on activities since her first day on campus. That includes time with the WSU men's soccer club, head coached by Sport Management faculty member Alex Gang.

Now, along with Alex, and Kinesiology faculty member Tristan Loria, Sadie is helping with research pertaining to music and soccer. She and Alex will be presenting this research at the Applied Sport Management Association Conference in Cincinnati on Feb. 12-14.

We join Sammi Nutter Charlton, a 2021 alumna from the WSU College of Education, who is now a third-grade teacher in East Wenatchee.

Sammi isn't only a teacher, she's also a children's book author, recently with Dozer Day Paves the Way, proceeds of which benefit the Nutter Family Foundation.

The book is based off the Dozer Days event that was started in Vancouver, Wash., but has spread to nine different places.

Media release from The Columbian newspaper: https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/oct/24/dozer-day-paves-the-way-author-hopes-kids-book-will-spark-interest-in-construction/

In this podcast episode, we sit down with Sport Management faculty member Tammy Crawford. Recently lauded by WSU for her role in the Core to Career program, Tammy has been at WSU for many years, as a rowing coach, faculty member, and student mentor. Her view on student success is well-rounded and the success of these students is evident.

Jørgen Kjær is from Denmark. He currently teaches in Sweden. He's a long-time coach and an expert in coaching education. The WSU College of Education has the privilege of hosting Jørgen Nov. 3-8. Today, we meet up with Jørgen to talk coaching education and get his advice to our Sport Management students who want to go into coach... spoiler alert: they need to be hungry.

During Color Cheney Crimson, we saw Jack Kunselman working one of the team-led booths. We talked to Jack and discovered he was doing an internship with the Tacoma Rainiers and was a current WSU Sport Management student. So, with his supervisor's permission, we interviewed Jack as part of our in-person, on-site Color Cheney Crimson podcast series (see episode No. 120 featuring employee Colin Connolly and No. 122 featuring alumna Jennifer Lee).

At Color Cheney Crimson, we saw Jennifer Lee wearing Cougs gear so we just went up to her and started talking. She is an early-intervention teacher in the Enumclaw School District. She's a proud Wazzu alumna and we're so pleased she talked to us while watching the greatest sport ever.

As published recently in WSU Insider, a recent study indicates that just the facts may not be enough to overcome misinformation. Far more effective would be a refutation format.

Robert Danielson breaks down what that means. He's an associate professor of Educational Psychology at Washington State University's College of Education and likes the puzzle of how people think, including deciphering information and whether it's true or false; fact or fiction.

Full news article: https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2024/08/21/facts-alone-fall-short-in-correcting-science-misinformation/

Colin Connolly has a cool job. He watches baseball every night. OK, obviously, he has to work while doing, but it's still a cool job. Colin is the is the Director of Media Relations and Baseball Information for the Tacoma Rainiers (Triple-A for the Seattle Mariners). In conjunction with this year's Color Cheney Crimson, we chatted with Colin about his work now, and his time at WSU in the College of Education's Sport Management program.