AN ATHLETE’S JOURNEY:

A collaboration between DHBCI and Advanced

Sports NutritionCATHERINE CRINIGAN,

JANESSA ESCAJEDA, ALLYSON HAMACHER

THE PROCESS

We began to gauge the interest of our audience by contacting multiple sports team and then asking them to complete surverys

We initially planned to present twice to two different sports team and to compare how different teaching techniques affected learning outcomes.

•Group ideas together•Adjusted phrasing of survery options•Decided to split groups•Chose two story types

Sending the team a education video and handouts on how to shop at a grocery story, based on modeling idea

Initial Plans Contact Adjusting Ideas Next Lesson

DEVELOPMENT

TESTING

ITERATION

FUTURE PLANS

H O W W E G O T W H E R E W E A R E .

THE PROBLEM

Learn how to work in a collaborative interdisciplinary setting for creating new ideas and content..

So, we collaborated between DHBCI and Advanced Sports Nutrition to come up with a unique method for teaching nutrition information to an ASU club sport team.

BRAINSTORMING

•Sticky notes to organize ideas•Groups ideas into topics (pre-pre-survey generation)•Used acceptance and commitment therapy and relational frame theory•Rephrased topics and sent survey•Chose story versions and wrote storyline

OUR PROCESS

STORY DEVELOPME

NT

HERO’S

JOURNEY

Ordinary world

Call to adventure

Refusal of the call

Meeting the mentor

Crossing the threshold

Tests, enemies,

alliesApproach

Ordeal, death, rebirth

Reward, seizing the

sword

The Road Back

Resurrected

Return with elixir

DEVELOPMENT

In class brainstorming and discussion with Ultimate Frisbee team captain. Online survey.

STORY WRITING

Used the Hero’s Journey by Joseph Campbell as template for our athletes’ story.ITERATIONS

Used the story as the basis for comics and the Choose Your Own Adventure.

WE PHRASED OUR QUESTIONS TO CATPURE THEIR DESIRED OUTCOMES – NOT WHAT WE WANTED TO TEACH THEM

Sent out an online survey to the team captain who forwarded it to the team. We took important aspects of sports nutrition and rephrased them to focus on performance outcomes rather than behaviors.

16 RESPONSES

10

5

1

TOP CHOICE

23 TEAM MEMBERS

PREFERENCE SURVEY

THE PRESENTATI

ONCHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE MODELLING

TEST RESULTS

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Pre-test Post-test

QUALITATIVE RESULTS

LOW COMPLETION RATE EN-GAGE

D

HAVE APPLIED

USEFUL

LACK OF FREE TEXTInability to gather other relevant feedback.

HONEST FEEDBACK?All feedback was positive, and may have been “being nice.”

Only 7 post-tests completed – the modelling group completed no post-tests

MOVING FORWARD

VIDEO AND HANDOUTSBased on theory that modelling would be impactful.

RETHINK THEORIESModelling may be more effective individually.

RETHINK PRESENTATIONSOther engaging, with support of comics and stories?

THANK YOUBEST OF LUCK WITH FINALS!