Contact Information

Dr. Brenda Bredemeier
Associate Professor in the Division of Educational Psychology, Research and Evaluation

University of Missouri - St. Louis
369 Marillac Hall
One University Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63121

Phone: (314) 516-6820
Email:  bredemeierb@umsl.edu
 

 

Brenda Bredemeier

Brenda Light Bredemeier earned a BS in physical education and a BA in psychology from the University of Minnesota, an MA in physical education from Smith College, and a Ph.D. emphasizing sport psychology from Temple University. She was certified as a sport psychology consultant in 1992, the first year certification was offered by the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP).
 
For 20 years, Dr. Bredemeier was a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, where she also served the university for eleven years as a dean in the College of Letters and Science. In 1999 she was recruited by the University of Notre Dame, together with David Shields, to found and co-direct a new center for sports, character & community. The mission of the Mendelson Center was to build character through sports by producing and delivering research-based educational programs and resources. The Center engaged in research and theory-building, academic and professional outreach programs, and service activities
 
Bredemeier moved to UMSL in 2004, the same year she was name the McCloy Lecturer by the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD). She was elected a Fellow of the distinguished American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education because of her research contributions and other scholarly work, including co-authorship of the book, Character Development and Physical Activity. Bredemeier also was named a fellow by the Research Consortium of AAHPERD, and by the AAASP, and was named a Sports Ethics Fellow by the Institute for International Sport. She received the “Distinguished Achievement Award” from the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, and was named “Outstanding Alumni” by Temple University’s College of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance for “highest achievement of an alum in the last 20 years.
 
Dr. Bredemeier was a founding board member of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology and served on its board for four years as the Section Head of Social Psychology. She also served on the executive board of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. She was a member of the Indiana Partnership for Character Education, and has consulted for the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Citizenship Through Sports Alliance.
           
Currently Dr. Bredemeier is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Sort and Exercise Psychology. She serves on the “Panel of Experts” for the Center for Sports Parenting, and is on the national advisory board of the Positive Coaching Alliance.

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