{"id":64659,"date":"2009-05-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/track-star-teacher-outstanding-student-to-graduate-again-from-uri\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T00:00:00","slug":"track-star-teacher-outstanding-student-to-graduate-again-from-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2009\/05\/track-star-teacher-outstanding-student-to-graduate-again-from-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Track star, teacher, outstanding student to graduate again from 溏心vlog免费B站"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNorth Attleboro resident to earn master\u2019s degree May 16<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 6, 2009 \u2013 Most athletes wouldn\u2019t consider a back injury and a car accident that probably aggravated it strokes of good luck.<\/p>\n


\nBut looking back, North Attleboro, Mass. resident Caitlin Hurley said the injury and subsequent accident might have been the keys that opened to the door to graduate school at the 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\nAfter earning her bachelor\u2019s degree in kinesiology from 溏心vlog免费B站 in 2007, Hurley will again walk across the commencement stage in Kingston on May 16, this time to accept her master\u2019s degree in the same discipline.<\/p>\n


\nA consistent member of the Dean\u2019s List as an undergraduate, Hurley joined a powerhouse women\u2019s track team that won indoor and outdoor Atlantic 10 Conference titles in her freshman and sophomore years.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI was actually a part of the 4X100-meter and 4X200-meter relay teams that still hold the school records,\u201d Hurley said.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt was amazing because we had all of these excellent athletes and to come in as a freshman and actually place at the A-10s in the 55 meters was surprising. I was on the 4X100 team, which won the conference title. It was cool to be the little freshman with all of these upper classmen, and competing against all of the other sprinters in the A-10s was pretty exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nBut at the end of her sophomore year, she began experiencing tightness in her back. Things only got worse when she was rear-ended by another car while she was stopped at a traffic light.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt was frustrating, but I used my junior year to get healthy, regroup and concentrate on school,\u201d Hurley said. \u201cI still went to practices and meets.
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\n\u201cWhen I came back in my senior, I had my best year ever,\u201d she said. \u201cI was running great and I came close to beating the school record in the 55 meters.\u201d

\nAs she neared completion of her undergraduate program in her senior year, she began to hear from advisers that she should consider pursuing a master\u2019s degree. Because of her injury, she had an extra year of eligibility to run track and would be able to apply that eligibility to her first year in graduate school.

\nAn outstanding student, she finished her undergraduate program with a 3.53 overall grade point average and 3.6 in her major.<\/p>\n


\nBut her decision didn\u2019t come without some additional pain. In September of 2007, she had arthroscopic surgery on her left knee. She acknowledges that her final seasons of indoor and outdoor track were not as strong as she would have liked, but she has no regrets.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI loved being an athlete here, the whole athletic community, administrators and the other athletes, it\u2019s just a great support system,\u201d Hurley said. \u201cI made my best friends that I\u2019ll have forever. My coaches (Laurie Feit-Melnick and her husband, John Melnick), having them as second parents almost, made my experience what it is today. They are the reason I wanted to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe graduate of North Attleboro High School said the kinesiology program provides excellent one-on-one education. \u201cOne of the other big reasons I wanted to go to graduate school was to get an assistantship so I could work closer with my professors. <\/p>\n


\n\tOne of my advisers, Mike Scott, told me there aren\u2019t many athletes who can do athletics and graduate school. It was nice to hear from people I respected that they thought I could manage both.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAs a graduate student she taught some labs and the department\u2019s 溏心vlog免费B站101 freshman introduction class and is thinking about pursing a doctorate.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cTwo years of teaching labs and undergraduate classes really opened my eyes to the profession of higher education learning. I just like being able to have that open door policy where students can come and ask a question about a lab. I have 溏心vlog免费B站101 students from my first year of teaching coming to me with questions. The fact that they are comfortable with me says that I did my job as a 溏心vlog免费B站101 instructor.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nBefore pursing another degree, however, Hurley would like to work in the wellness, fitness field.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI might go into the clinical field, so maybe I\u2019ll be in a hospital cardiac rehab center or maybe I\u2019ll do some youth fitness work.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nNo matter where she ends up, Hurley won\u2019t forget 溏心vlog免费B站–the athletic department, her teammates, and her professors.

\n \u201cKinesiology Professor Deb Riebe has been amazing to me, and as I said my coaches, John and Laurie, my second parents. I am not sure I would have gotten through six years without them.\u201d <\/p>\n


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\nNorth Attleboro, Mass. resident Caitlin Hurley will earn her master\u2019s degree in kinesiology from the 溏心vlog免费B站 May 16. 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications and Marketing photo by Nora Lewis<\/p>\n

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