Deborah Gebhardt
Deborah L Gebhardt is an American scientist focusing on issues related to health, fitness and workplace health safety. Gebhardt was also a college basketball and softball coach. Gebhardt was the first coach for both the softball and women's basketball teams at the University of California, Berkeley. She coached Purdue's first women's basketball team. She was a physical education teacher prior to becoming the head coach in the 1973-74 season. She coached one year and then left Purdue. The Purdue team finished 8-8 and finished third in the Big Ten tournament. Biography. Deborah Gebhardt  attended Hazleton High School, and later graduated from East Stroudsburg State in 1969. She earned her Master's degree from the University of Arizona. After earning her master's degree, she started teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. Gebhardt also officiated basketball for nine years. Gebhardt received her PhD in Physical Education from the University of Maryland Department of Kinesiology in 1979. In the 1980s, she worked as a vice president for the Advanced Research Resources Organization (ARRO), a company that created employment tests. She has been published in "American Psychologist", the "Journal of Applied Psychology", "Human Performance", "Ergonomics