I currently serve as professor of Kinesiology and Nutritional Science at California State University, Los Angeles. Over the past 20+ years I have taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in Sport Psychology, Sociology of Sport, History and Philosophy of Physical Education and Sport, Fundamentals of Movement and Information Technology in Kinesiology and Nutritional Science. I am a graduate of the Zinman College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences at the Wingate Institute, Israel (1973), The Nat Holman Coaching School at the Wingate Institute, Israel (1973, Track & Field; 1978 Olympic Gymnastics), SUNY Brockport, New York (1982, B.S., Physical Education), SIU, Carbondale, IL (1984, M.S. Social Psychology of Sport; 1989 Ph.D., Sport Psychology). My teaching experiences also include elementary and high school physical education, and 20+ years of coaching and teaching at the college and university levels.

I am married to Sally Frankl, M.D. (Internal Medicine) and together we worship our son (born 1989), and daughter (born 1995).

Site Author with kids at Camp Janet, Summer 1998

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