World Class Soccer & Sports Path Int’l

2007 Raleigh Seminar Presenter

Jennifer Etnier

Jennifer Etnier, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Interim Head of the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.   She conducts research in the area of exercise psychology and in the area of sport psychology. Her sport psychology research has been designed to look at attentional patterns in sport skill performance, parameters of imagery that impact performance outcomes, the effects of the learning environment on sport performance outcomes, and achievement goal orientations of adult competitive athletes.  Dr. Etnier is a member of the United States Soccer Federation National Coaching Education Staff (1998-present) and gives regular presentations at National Coaching Schools.  Dr. Etnier holds her B license and was a volunteer assistant soccer coach at Wake Forest University (1995-1998), and she has also served as the Assistant to the Director (1998-1999) and the Director (1993-1995) of Special Olympics Soccer for the state of Arizona.