After two decades in a city that outlaws skyscrapers, followed by a five year stint chasing the elusive sage grouse in the midnight landscape of the Oregon Outback and scrutinizing the eating behaviors of obese primates when fed the typical American diet disguised as Kibbles n’ Bits, Ciera, Texas’ prodigal daughter, finds herself orbiting the sun once again at the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports. Consumed with the aspiration to further understand migration and diffusion of youth sports, she works to finish her dissertation examining physical and cultural geographic factors influencing youth sport participation.
Degrees
BS Biology George Mason University 2010
MS Exercise Science George Washington University 2017
Honors
- 2024 Positive Coaching Alliance National Coach of the Year
- 2024 Sport Oregon’s Keeping Girls in the Game Honoree
- 2021 North American Society for Sport Management Doctoral Research Grant
- 2017 GWU Department of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences Chair’s Award
