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Our manuscript based on a Consensual Qualitative Research analysis of interviews with 10 college rugby players following MSPE training was published this year!
Hut, M., Minkler, T. O., Glass, C. R., Thomas, H. M., Weppner, C. H., & Flannery, C. B. (2025). Mindful sport performance enhancement (MSPE) with an American college rugby team: A Consensual Qualitative Research study. The Sport Psychologist. Advance online publication.
With Tim Pineau and Keith Kaufman, Carol Glass presented a 4-hour CE workshop on August 2, 2023 at the American Psychological Association convention in Washington, DC: Best practices for Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE): What you won’t learn from a manual.
The lab presented three posters, an oral presentation, and a workshop at the October 2022 conference of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology in Fort Worth, TX
Megan Hut and Tommy Minkler presented a workshop and two oral presentations in July 2022 at the 16th European Congress of Sport & Exercise Psychology (FEPSAC) in Padova, Italy
Claire Flannery presented a talk at the Catholic University Research Day in April 2022, and received her B.S. in Psychological and Brain Sciences in May 2022. She is now a Research Coordinator position at Mass General Hospital in Boston, MA
Our study on MSPE for women's lacrosse is now in print, based on Tommy Minkler's master's degree research at Catholic U:
Minkler, T. O., Glass, C. R., & Hut, M. (2021). Mindfulness training for a college team: Feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness from within an Athletic Department. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 33(6), 609-626.
Our RCT comparing MSPE and PST is now in print in the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology:
Hut, M., Minkler, T. O., Glass, C. R., Weppner, C. H., Thomas, H. M., & Flannery, C. B. (2023). A randomized controlled study of mindful sport performance enhancement and psychological skills training with collegiate track and field athletes. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 35(2), 284-306.
Hannah Thomas (M.A., 2021) is now a fifth-year student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Montclair State University (NJ)
Caroline Weppner (M.A., 2021) is now a fifth-year student in the Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Texas-Austin
Megan Hut (M.A., 2020) received her Ph.D. in Educational Theory and Practice at West Virginia University in May 2024, and is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at WVU during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Tommy Minkler (M.A., 2019) got his Ph.D. in Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology at West Virginia University in May, 2023, where he also received an M.A. degree in Community Counseling. He has continued to be an active member of the Mindfulness & Sport Lab and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Sport Leadership and Management Department at Miami University (OH) during the 2024-2025 academic year. He is now an Assistant Professor of Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology at California State University Fullerton.
Megan Hut published an article that was based on her master's thesis at Catholic U.:
Hut, M., Glass, C. R., Degnan, K. A., & Minkler, T. O. (2021). The effects of mindfulness training on mindfulness, anxiety, emotion dysregulation, and performance satisfaction among female student-athletes: The moderating role of age. Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 1 (2), 75-82.
Caroline Weppner presented a first-authored poster at the November 2021 (virtual) conference of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
The lab presented six posters at the October 2021 (virtual) conference of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology
Caroline Weppner presented a talk at the virtual Catholic University Research Day in April 2021, and was one of three finalists for the university-wide award for "Best Master's Presentation" this year
Claire Flannery presented a first-authored poster at the virtual Catholic University Research Day in April 2021
Lab Director Carol Glass and former lab alums Keith Kaufman and Tim Pineau (Ph.D. 2008 and 2014) established the MSPE Institute, LLC in January, 2019. They provide consulting services in the field of sport performance, mindfulness, and mental skills training including classes, workshops, presentations, research consultation, MSPE training for athletic teams. Drs. Kaufman and Pineau also offer a weekly drop-in meditation group and Mindful Sport Performance podcast.
After holding four 2-day MSPE Instructor Training workshops in person 2018-2020, Keith Kaufman, Tim Pineau, and Carol Glass presented their first live virtual workshop in July 2020, and now have facilitated 11 more of these online workshops in December 2020, March 2021, July 2021, January 2022, July 2022, December 2022, March 2023, July 2023, March 2024, July 2024, and December 2024.
Keith Kaufman, Carol Glass, and Tim Pineau published a book on Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement in August, 2017, which includes the complete MSPE® protocol and serves as a comprehensive resource on the history, theory, and practice of mindfulness in sport:
Kaufman, K. A., Glass, C. R., & Pineau, T. R. (2018). Mindful sport performance enhancement: Mental training for athletes and coaches. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Lab Alum Rokas Perskaudas (Ph.D., 2022) completed his internship during the 2020-2021 year at the Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in Tucson, AZ and is currently an Advanced Postdoctoral Fellow in the VA NJ Health Care System.
Lab alum Erin Mistretta (M.A., 2017) received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Arizona State University and is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington.
Lab Alum Dennis Hoyer (M.A., 2017) received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Auburn University in 2022.
Former lab collaborator Dr. Claire Spears is now a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at George State University in Atlanta, GA, where she recently received a five-year, $3.15 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to further develop and evaluate a text messaging program to help people quit smoking using a mindfulness intervention.
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