PHySiCAL THerAPy Skating Academy. Dr. Boyce was an evaluator at a STArS combine in Detroit last year and pitched Bellarmine as a centrally located site for 2012. The Detroit organizers were surprised by the number of students who accompanied him, he said: “We brought an army.” it was the same in June. “David did a great job of integrating students with this event,” said Becca Hatch-Purnell, who directs the LSA and whose daughter, Claire, and son, Luke, were evaluated. Stu- dents from across the physical therapy program helped out, from Pre-PT Club members to first-, second- and third-year students to three graduates who now work with Dr. Boyce. STArS is good experience for students, Dr. Boyce said, because many of the tests are standard athletic evaluations they will encounter in class and on the job. The bounding test, for example, helps determine when athletes with ACL injuries can resume their sport. The combine helped some PT students fulfill a service requirement. in addition, three of them were working on a capstone research project. Drew Cecil, Alli Lesousky and Brian Blevins were evaluating the reliability of the difficult tuck-jump test, assisted by Craig Satterly, who was film- ing each skater with an iPad. in this test, a skater lifts and bends her leg to a 90-degree angle. The height of the knee is marked on the wall, and a string is stretched horizontally from that mark. Starting flat-footed, the skater must then “Having complete as many jumps as possible in 30 seconds that bring“This is a really hard test to evaluate, because they areboth knees above the string. a testing moving so quickly,” said Dr. Boyce, who ran the tuck-jump site here test in Detroit. “i might give a skater a 7; another judge -might give a 12.” Ms. Lesousky and Mr. Blevins were serving as independent observers. At the end of the day, they really would compare their scores with each other and then with gets the test as standardized as possible.the video, “the gold standard.” The objective: to make the university’s Sarah Neal, who coaches at LSA and is also an adjunct Span-Srn addition to helping skaters and students, the STAievent was good publicity for Bellarmine, said volunteer name out gets the university’s name out there.”ish teacher at Bellarmine. “Having a testing site here really there.” made the two-hour drive to the SurF with her daughternd., whoiThat was confirmed by Dana Scholl of Fishers, Caitlin, 14, at the recommendation of Caitlin’s skating coach. “To be honest,” Ms. Scholl admitted, “i’d never even heard of Bellarmine!” 32 bellarmine magazine
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