Chris Bader is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton, TX. I have been involved with AASP since arriving at UNT and have enjoyed being both a student member and now a regional representative. Before coming to UNT I received my Master’s degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and my Bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University. While at UNT, I have been involved in both the sport psychology and counseling psychology sides of our program. I enjoy the mixture we have here and I have enjoyed working in a number of different settings. I have accrued most of my sport psychology applied hours working with two different teams on the UNT campus. As mentioned, I enjoy the counseling psychology part of our program just as much and have accrued hours in two different counseling centers, as well as our community-based psychology clinic. As part of our program we are required to complete a 2000-hour pre-doctoral internship in professional psychology.

Next year I will be completing my pre-doctoral internship at the University of Oklahoma (OU) in Norman, OK. This internship is unique in that it is housed in a consortium but offers a primary rotation in Sport Psychology through the OU Athletics Department. As the intern assigned primarily to the Athletics Department, I will spend approximately 24 hours a week housed in athletics. I will be supervised by Dr. Nicki Moore, and will be involved in counseling and assessment of athletes. Additionally, I will be responsible for developing and working with team-centered and outreach workshops, administration, consultation, research and supervision. OU has been very open-minded with regard to their acceptance and inclusion of sport psychology, and I am very excited to be a part of such an environment.

Carmen Tebbe is originally from St. Rose, IL. She attended college and played volleyball at the University of South Carolina- Spartanburg, while majoring in psychology. She received her Master’s degree in experimental psychology from Wake Forest University and is currently completing her Ph.D. in counseling psychology with a specialization in sport psychology at the University of North Texas. Carmen is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP), in which she is currently a student member of the Ethics Committee.

Carmen’s pre-doctoral internship is through the Oklahoma Health Consortium, where she works at the University of Oklahoma Counseling & Testing Services and the University of Oklahoma Athletics Department Psychological Resources for OU Student-Athletes (PROS) As part of the PROS staff, Carmen provides individual counseling and sport psychology services to student-athletes, as well as team-building and performance enhancement workshops for the university athletic teams. In addition, she co-facilitates a Leadership Development group, coordinates psychoeducational testing for university student-athletes, and supervises an assessment graduate assistant. In August 2007, Carmen will be a full-time postdoctoral fellow for the PROS staff. Many of her responsibilities will be the same, as she will continue to provide counseling and sport psychology services. In addition, she will serve as the orientation coordinator for incoming student-athletes and direct the Leadership Development program. Carmen is being supervised by Dr. Nicki Moore, licensed psychologist and AASP Certified Consultant.

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