Dr. Keith W. McCoy is Professor of Health and Kinesiology, former Department Chairman for 23 years and Coordinator of the Master of Education Degree Program in Health and Kinesiology. Dr. McCoy received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Western State College and his Ed.D. from The University of Wyoming. Dr. McCoy is a Certified Health Education Specialist. His primary teaching fields are Exercise and Sport Psychology and Health Behaviors, including graduate classes in Motor Learning, Sport Psychology, Exercise Psychology, Educational Health Interventions, and Motor Control. His research focus is cardiac rehabilitation exercise adoption and sport anxiety.
Clinic experience includes consultations with collegiate and adult golfers.
He received his Ph.D. with specialization in psychosocial aspects of sport and exercise from the University of Southern California. He has taught both undergraduate and graduate sport and exercise psychology classes since 1992. Recently, Dr. Yin has focused his research on exercise adherence and achievement goal perspectives in sport. He has published over 30 research articles in sport and exercise psychology, public health and education psychology in past eight years. The focus of this course in on the study of sport and physical activity from a psychological and social-psychological perspective.