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SPLASH<br />
SPLASH<br />
CRPASH creates SPLASH at DYC<br />
SPLASH<br />
SPLASH<br />
SPLASH!<br />
The Center for Research on Physical Activity,<br />
Sports & Health (CRPASH) was created during<br />
<strong>the</strong> 2004-2005 academic year in collaboration<br />
with <strong>the</strong> president’s office and an initial gift of<br />
$100,000 by The Margaret Fund. Dr. Donald<br />
F. Sabo, CRPASH’s founder and director, says<br />
that “CRPASH is about research, research,<br />
research!”<br />
CRPASH functions as an organizational hub<br />
that brings researchers and organizations<br />
toge<strong>the</strong>r in order to conduct relevant research<br />
and policy initiatives. It also provides<br />
evaluation research skills to help communitybased<br />
organizations and educational institutions<br />
understand and enhance <strong>the</strong> effectiveness of<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir programs.<br />
During its first two years of operation, CRPASH<br />
conducted several funded research studies and<br />
issued key reports.<br />
SPORTS, GIRLS, AND PUBLIC HEALTH<br />
The Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF)<br />
commissioned Dr. Sabo to assemble a team of<br />
experts in order to produce a comprehensive<br />
compendium of research on physical activity<br />
and sport as fundamental solutions for many<br />
of <strong>the</strong> serious health and social problems faced<br />
by American girls. The WSF is a national<br />
charitable educational organization seeking to<br />
advance <strong>the</strong> well-being and leadership skills of<br />
girls and women through sports and physical<br />
activity. The result was Don Sabo, Kathleen<br />
Miller, Merrill Melnick and Leslie Heywood<br />
(2004), Her Life Depends On It: Sport,<br />
Physical Activity, and <strong>the</strong> Health and Well-<br />
Being of American Girls (East Meadow, NY:<br />
Women’s Sports Foundation). This report is<br />
an educational resource for researchers, public<br />
health advocates and policymakers who look to<br />
physical activity as a key preventive factor for<br />
major diseases later in life such as heart disease,<br />
cancer, osteoporosis and Alzheimer’s disease.<br />
Evidence is also present that links athletic<br />
participation to reduced risk among adolescents<br />
for obesity, teen pregnancy, illicit drug use<br />
and suicide. Her Life Depends On It was <strong>the</strong><br />
evidence-based foundation for launching <strong>the</strong><br />
WSF’s national GoGirlGo Campaign, which<br />
aims to get one million physically inactive girls<br />
up and moving.<br />
THE GENDER AND HEART STUDY<br />
There is a mountain of data on <strong>the</strong> prevalence<br />
and etiology of heart disease. Yet little is known<br />
about people’s personal and social lives after a<br />
coronary event. Still less is understood about<br />
how men’s and women’s experiences with heart<br />
disease differ. Through grants from D’Youville<br />
College, <strong>the</strong> Edna Wardlaw Memorial Trust,<br />
and The Margaret Foundation, Julia Hall,<br />
Ph.D., and Dr. Sabo have been interviewing<br />
men and women across <strong>the</strong> United States<br />
who are recovering from a coronary event.<br />
They are routing findings through conference<br />
presentations and journal publications.<br />
RESEARCH IN THE FAST LANE<br />
Dr. Sabo partnered with former Indianapolis 500<br />
race car driver Lyn St. James and researchers<br />
at <strong>the</strong> University of Indiana in order to design,<br />
conduct, and report on a groundbreaking<br />
nationwide survey of fan attitudes toward<br />
women in motorsports. Time to Drive: Attitudes<br />
Toward Women in Motorsports was issued<br />
during <strong>summer</strong> 2005.<br />
CRPASH INFORMS NATIONAL<br />
POLICY DEBATE<br />
The national debate around Title IX heated up<br />
after <strong>the</strong> Department of Education issued its<br />
March 2005 clarification that recommended use<br />
of an online survey to establish compliance with<br />
<strong>the</strong> law. Dr. Sabo collaborated with Christine<br />
Grant (University of Iowa) on an original<br />
report that evaluated <strong>the</strong> methodological<br />
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