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The
Health, Physical Education & Athletics Division is
designed to give students the knowledge necessary to
develop healthy lifestyles that will lengthen and
enhance the quality of their lives. Within this
division, 19 sports are offered to the Cerritos
student body and courses are offered to both
students and faculty alike. During the 2004-2005
school year, nine of these 19 teams won conference
championships. This past year the Women’s Track and
Field team won the State Championship.
In
2002 Dr. Smith came to Cerritos College from Nanyang
Technical University in Singapore where he coordinated
the Master’s of Science Program in Exercise and Sport
Studies within the Division of Physical Education and
Sport Science. During that time, he also served as a
part-time Adjunct Professor with the Singapore Institute
of Management.
Prior to that, Dr. Smith
served as an Associate Professor of Physical Education
at State University of New York at Brockport, which
included being the men’s basketball coach.
A sports enthusiast, Smith
was a former head basketball coach at Brigham Young
University in Hawaii, assistant basketball coach at
University of Illinois, women’s volleyball coach at Rio
Hondo College and a former men’s volleyball coach at
California State Polytechnic University in Pomona.
Smith has extensive
consulting experience in sport psychology with
professional teams including the Buffalo Sabres, the
Chicago Bulls, the Indiana Pacers and the Chicago White
Sox.
He holds a PhD in Physical
Education from the University of Illinois with an
emphasis in sport psychology, and Bachelor and Masters
degrees in Physical Education from BYU. Smith is also a
Certified Consultant of the Association for the
Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology. |
