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Dr. Timothy Henrich
Professor
Kinesiology and Sports Management

I am a Professor of Kinesiology and Sports Management in the Department of Human Performance and School of Nursing and Health Professions. I have been at Incarnate Word 15 years and get to work with all aspects of academic life including First Year students, majors in Sports Management and Kinesiology both graduate and undergraduate as well as teaching and mentoring doctoral students. The work with first year students is rewarding and challenging and but it is one of the activities that contributes to UIW being a good place to be. Highly reliable and reproducible research from over 90 countries (World Data Base on Happiness http://www1.eur.nl/fsw/happiness/) tells us that the happiest people in the world form cohesive and mutually supportive communities. If you’re interested in a community to support your educational endeavors than Incarnate Word is the place to study. Incarnate Word is one of the few places that affords Faculty the opportunity to be teaching scholars.

My basic assumptions related to teaching and student learning is that the United States lags far behind the major developed nations in scientific coaching, teaching and training techniques and we succeed because we are wealthy as a nation with a large talent pool rather than having the ability to develop athletes at all levels and particularly athletes and students from under funded school districts. This lack of education leads to abuse of students and athletes, and poor performance and activity levels from everyone except for the gifted athletes. My classes are geared toward changing this aspect of sport in America by teaching both quantitative and qualitative analysis and ingraining basic physiological and biomechanical principles into courses.

My passion for teaching and research sport comes from a background of interscholastic and intercollegiate swimming and Water Polo as well as being a team member and later a coach of the United States Modern Pentathlon Team in the Army and as a Designee of the Secretary of Defense. Sport programs provided me an opportunity to obtain my education as well as to travel to more than 25 international competitions in other countries such as World Cup, World Championship events and the Olympic Games. I was an assistant (1974-77) and later Head Swimming Coach (1979-1984) at Alamo Heights High School later able to coach and teach in Denmark for 3 years and in Egypt for about two years total including summers. I was also lucky enough to be able to spend a year at our China Campus in Guangzhou. Being a University Professor gives me the opportunity to do research in the area of sports but also teach students so that they can possibly have the same opportunities offered to me as a coach, teacher and scholar
 
My biographical background is I graduated from California State University Fullerton with a degree in Sociology and was a competitive Swimmer and Water Polo player. During my military service I also completed work for undergraduate majors in Biology and Kinesiology at Trinity University and San Antonio College. At Indiana University I studied with James “Doc Counsilman an internationally renowned scholar and swimming coach and received an MS degree in Human Performance with a minor in Physiology. My doctorate included a double major in Medical and Veterinary Physiology and Exercise Physiology from Texas A&M University where I studied with J. Richard Coast and Regent’s Professor Gerald A. Meininger at the Micro vascular Research Center. Other academic achievements include Cognates in Bioengineering, Biochemistry and Statistics. My Dissertation titled “The Influence of Reactive Hyperemia in Muscle During Exercise” received the Texas American College of Sports Medicine’s Student Research Award. I have published 30 citable journal articles as well as 82 abstracts and publications in Professional Periodicals and Conference Proceedings and more than 100 professional presentations. I am currently engaged in swimming ergo metric measurements and the affects of high volume training. I am active as the Director of the Aquatics Commission of the International Council for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance – a charter member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as well as the World Health Organization. I am or have also been active in the American Physiological Society, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, American College of Sports Medicine and its Texas Affiliate, American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, its Texas Affiliate and the Hong Kong Sports Medicine Society.

 

 

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