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The Faculty Athletic Mentor Program at Endicott attempts to foster a better understanding of the mission and application of intercollegiate athletics at Endicott, and how athletics supports the College's educational mission. The program encourages faculty and staff members from a variety of academic disciplines that volunteer to spend time with individual teams and mentor the student-athletes.

By inviting faculty and staff into intimate team settings, these relationships between the student-athletes and the mentors augment the experiential learning environments that foster the Colleges' mission statement. Faculty Athletic Mentors (FAMs) and coaches work as partners in knowing and assisting their students in all facets of the students' curricular and co-curricular pursuits.

As a means to create an environment of co-curricular learning, mentors engage in a variety of activities with their teams. Activities may include attending athletic events, assisting with academic challenges and resources, joining the team at pre-game meals, attending campus activities; such as lectures and art openings, joining in community service projects and a multitude of other possibilities.

The objectives:

-To enhance communication between faculty and students, and provide additional mentoring resources for student-athletes.

-To provide faculty members with a more complete understanding of the mission and application of intercollegiate athletics, and enhance their awareness of the responsibilities Endicott student-athletes.

-Give student-athletes an integrated learning experience, collaborating their academic and athletic "worlds."

-Reinforces the circle of support for student-athletes.
-Continue to attract top scholar athletes to Endicott.

-Promote understanding and communication between faculty, athletics, and students.

-Provide an institutionally supported means for faculty, students, and coaches to get to know each other better thus enhancing individual and educational relationships and mutual appreciation.

Softball:

Lisa Courcy, RNC, MSN is an assistant professor teaching Care of Childbearing Families, Care of Children, and Community Health. She is a graduate of Bridgewater State College with a BA in English and Education. After teaching for several years at the high school level, she returned to college to become a registered nurse, receiving an AD in Nursing from Massasoit Community College, and earning a Masters Degree in Nursing from the University of Phoenix in 2005. Prior to coming to Endicott, she practiced primarily in the clinical setting as a labor and delivery nurse, with additional experience in newborn and postpartum care. She has also been employed in the community setting as a family support RN for the Family Outreach Program in Rhode Island, providing nursing support and social service referrals to at risk families with newborns. Professor Courcy is certified by the American Nurse Credentialing Center in perinatal nursing and as a Neonatal Resuscitation Provider (NRP) educator. She holds memberships in Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society in Nursing, the Association of Women's Health, Obstetrical and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), and the Massachusetts Nurses Association. In 2000, Professor Courcy was awarded the first annual Elaine Donahue Memorial Scholarship; she has also developed and implemented a Teen Prepared Childbirth program for a local city high school. In addition to teaching at Endicott, Professor Courcy continues to work part time as an obstetrical nurse educator and labor and delivery nurse in a community hospital setting.

Women's Volleyball:

Cindy Fichera RN, MSN is an assistant professor teaching adult acute care and the internship portion for the senior nursing class. She also teaches pharmacology. Professor Fichera earned her BSN from the University of Massachusetts and her MSN from the University of Phoenix. She is a member of sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society. Her previous academic experience consists of teaching in an AD nursing program. Her clinical area of expertise is in Emergency, Critical Care Nursing and Trauma. Her clinical experience includes mentoring and precepting nurses into the EMS system. She is an Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) instructor for the Merrimack Valley Consortium Hospitals and is the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) provider. In addition to teaching at Endicott College Professor Fichera continues to work per diem as an ER nurse in a community hospital. 

Women's Basketball:

Kelly Fisher, RN, PhD is Dean and Associate Professor and has over fifteen years of teaching experience in higher education nursing programs. She has a specialty in Adult Medical/Surgical nursing and teaches Acute Care Nursing, Nursing Internship and Seminar, Thesis I and Pharmacology Courses. Her educational background includes a PhD in Nursing from the University of Rhode Island, Master of Science in Nursing from Russell Sage College, and a BSN from Fitchburg State College. She has received grant funds to conduct research in the area of diabetes, critical thinking among BSN students and teaching methodology with technology in an undergraduate curriculum. She has published in Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), The Journal of School Nursing, and The Diabetes Educator. Dr. Fisher holds memberships in the National League for Nursing, the American Association of Diabetes Educators, and is the current president of Eta Omega Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society in Nursing. 

Women's Tennis:

Nancy Meedzan, MSN, RN is an assistant professor teaching Health Assessment, Nursing Research, and the clinical component of Care of Adults. She earned her BS degree from Boston College School of Nursing and her MSN from Salem State College. She has previously taught in an AD nursing program teaching Medical Surgical nursing. Her clinical experience is varied and includes Cardiac Care, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Burn and Trauma Unit, and Community Health nursing where she held both staff and administrative positions. She has co-authored an article on cardiac rehabilitation which is her area of research interest. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau and the Massachusetts Nurses Association.

Men's Lacrosse:

Stephen Butler Murray is College Chaplain and Assistant Professor of Religion at Endicott College. He previously served in higher education as the chaplain and on the faculty of Skidmore College and Suffolk University, and he was an administrator at the Dwight Hall Center for Public Service and Social Justice at Yale University, where he currently serves on the Board of Directors. In parish ministry, he has served as the pastor of United Church of Christ, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and American Baptist churches in urban, suburban, and rural settings in Massachusetts and New York. Dr. Murray earned the B.A. in philosophy and religion at Bucknell University, the M.Div. at Yale University Divinity School, and the M.Phil. and Ph.D. in systematic theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, a Protestant seminary affiliated with Columbia University. His research and teaching focuses on the history of Christian thought, religious ethics, the interplay of race and gender in religion, and interfaith relations. He is a past President of the North American Paul Tillich Society. 

Women's Basketball:

Anne-Marie Scholer has been a member of the Arts and Sciences Division at Endicott College since 1994. She has a B.A. in Biology from Smith College, a Master of Arts in Medical Sciences from Harvard University, and an Ed.D. in Science Education from Boston University. She teaches courses in Anatomy and Physiology, Pathophysiology, and Gender and Women in Science. Dr. Scholer's areas of interest include gender issues in science, the history of women in science, sexuality in science education, and the areas of biology related to medicine and reproduction. 

Men's Basketball:

Richard Nastasi received his doctoral degree from the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Boston University. Previous to his appointment at Endicott, he served as an assistant professor in Human Movement and Sport Sciences at the University of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia and as a lecturer in Curriculum and Teaching at Boston University. His academic interests include: the integration of sport, literature and philosophy into a viable and empowering academic framework, the development and nurturing of a humanistic model for managers and administrators in sporting situations, and the development and nurturing of an inductive, compassion based model for wellness education. Dr. Nastasi has published scholarly articles and commentary in refereed and non-refereed journals, co-edited an international conferences' proceedings and is currently co-authoring a book on the role of compassion in wellness education. He has presented papers at regional and national conferences as well as international presentations in England, Germany and Israel. Dr. Nastasi has given plenary addresses on Character Education and Sport (Australia) and on Scholarship Reconsidered: A Sport Research Perspective (Lisbon). Rich was an athletic director, coach and high school teacher in previous lives. While he once was an intercollegiate basketball and baseball player, he now limits himself to recreational basketball and jogging. 

Field Hockey:

Katie Kilty: Dr. Katie Kilty holds an Ed.D. in Sport Psychology from Boston University. She has extensive sport management experience in the applied and academic settings. She also owns her own performance consulting business: MindPower Resources and has recently published a book titled Creating Healthy Habits. She has presented and published nationally and internationally in the areas of performance excellence, women in sport, coach education, adventure education and health and wellness.

Football:

Doug Glazer:  Dr. Doug Glazer has extensive teaching experience in physical education and is also a certified athletic trainer. He earned his doctorate from Springfield College, specializing in sport psychology. Dr. Glazer has a Master of Science degree from Indiana State University in athletic training and a Bachelor of Science degree in exercise science and athletic training from Concordia University. He has taught several graduate and undergraduate courses in exercise science at Springfield College and was an athletic trainer at Yale University, Indiana State University, and Concordia University.

Women's Soccer:

Kathy Bloomfield:  Assistant Director, Center for Teaching & Learning.

Men's Soccer:

Erica Hochberg:  Assistant Director, Center for Teaching & Learning.

Women's Lacrosse:

Erin Hetzel, Graduate Intern: Erin graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1995 with a BA in Psychology. After working as a substitute teacher in her hometown of Springfield, MA, she eventually returned to school to earn a Master of Education in Higher Education Administration from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. While at UMASS, she worked in the Athletics Department as an academic advisor for student-athletes. Upon graduating in 2003, she went on to work at Boston University as the Assistant Director of Student-Athlete Services, eventually returning to UMASS to work in athletics administration. Erin is now entering her second year of the Master of Social Work program at Salem State College. Last year, Erin interned at the Center for Family Development in Beverly, where she served as an outpatient clinician. Erin also continues to work in athletics at Salem State College, as a graduate assistant for the Compliance Director. 

Baseball:

Kim Peckham: received a Bachelor of Science degree from Endicott College in 1999, and then went on to earn her Masters Degree in Education in 2002. As an undergraduate at Endicott, Peckham was a two-sport athlete participating in both soccer and softball. Peckham has been employed by Endicott for 10 years, spending eight in Residence Life and the last two years in Student Development. Peckham currently serves as the College's Director of Student Activities. 

Peckham is an avid Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Lakers fan, and enjoys spending time with her Dog, Fenway.