LOGAN – Within Utah State University’s Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, associate professor Travis Dorsch and two doctoral students are conducting research to collect data on abuse in sports not only at the collegiate level but also in intramural, extramural and recreational play in young adult programs.
Dorsch said USU’s contract with Lasso Safe will allow the school to provide the non-profit with reliable data collection that will keep Lasso Safe at the front of the safeguarding space.
Safeguarding in sports involves protecting the best interests of coaches with their athletes.
Lasso Safe is a non-profit global coalition dedicated to transforming the way safety is approached in sports and how important it is for athletes to feel safe and supported. They have created systems that promote safer athletes by reducing physical, emotional and sexual abuse.
Kat Adams and Katie Alexander are doctoral students who say this research is personal since they both were competitors in a higher level of sports as children and into their adult years. Alexander played college soccer and Adams was a competitive gymnast and later a coach.