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Native of Louisiana and was a high school English teacher and football/basketball/track coach for 12 years in the Louisiana Public Schools. Received a master's degree from Northwestern in 1985 and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 1997. After working at Texas A&M for eight years taught for two at New Mexico State University, two at Texas A&M University - Kingsville and been a professor at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi since 2000. Became the Department Chair for Kinesiology in 2001 and still serve in that capacity.