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Lisa Witherspoon Hansen Named to the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame
TAMPA, Fla. (Sept. 11, 2009) – Lisa Witherspoon Hansen, Ph.D., was recently named to Virginia Tech’s Sports Hall of Fame. During her years at Virginia Tech, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in exercise science and physical education, Hansen made school history by breaking records in assists and steals and earning a reputation as one of the school’s most popular and dynamic women’s basketball players.
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Known for her perseverance and toughness, Hansen continued to play on many occasions despite injuries. Suffering a broken nose in a game during her sophomore year didn’t stop her from managing nine assists that helped to propel her team to a win. She continued to excel and finished the season with a spectacular record. As a junior, she continued to play in 30 games despite a stress fracture in her foot and finished the season with 200 assists, breaking another school record. She was instrumental in helping her team win the Atlantic-10 conference championship that year and advance to the NCAA Tournament.
Hansen is a 2009 USF College of Education alumna with a Ph.D. degree in Curriculum & Instruction in Early Childhood Education. She is now an instructor in the School of Physical Education and Exercise Science and also co-directs two research labs. One of the labs, housed in the School is the XRKade Research Laboratory, an 1800 sq. ft. teaching and research facility established to investigate and promote the use of active gaming technologies. The other is a school-based XRKade lab at Witter Elementary School in the Hillsborough County Public School system.
“Being inducted into the Hall of Fame at Virginia Tech is an amazing honor that I am very blessed to receive,” said Hansen. “… my success is largely due to the talent and teamwork of my team members, and the support from my family ... They should be accepting this award on my behalf.” |
The USF College of Education is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and is fully approved by the Florida Department of Education. The USF College of Education is the 7th largest public college of education in the nation. For more information about the USF College of Education, visit: itunes.usf.edu or: www.coedu.usf.edu.
The University of South Florida is one of the nation's top 63 public research universities and one of 39 community-engaged, four-year public universities as designated by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. USF was awarded more than $360 million in research contracts and grants in FY 2007/2008. The university offers 219 degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate, specialist and doctoral levels, including the doctor of medicine. The university has a $1.8 billion annual budget, an annual economic impact of $3.2 billion, and serves more than 46,000 students on institutions/campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota-Manatee and Lakeland. USF is a member of the Big East Athletic Conference.
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