Diversity in Sport: Capstone Highlights from Graduate Physical Education

Angela Robles, Ed.D., Kinesiology

Char Gamus, Graduate Student, Kinesiology

Inoke Tukia, Graduate Student, Kinesiology

In this presentation, two of the top performers in the Graduate Physical Education December 2018 cohort will present their capstone research projects. Char Gamus successfully defended her master’s research study, “Sports Participation and Equity: An Examination of Sport Organizations Designed to Promote Access and Opportunity.” Gamus interviewed five leaders of sport organizations in order to examine how their local and nonprofit entities are providing underrepresented minority (URM) participants access and opportunity to participate in sport. Inoke Tukia developed an intervention program, which he utilized with a focus group of high school football team members for his research study, “Building Sociocultural Competency: An Assessment and Intervention of Polynesian Football.”