Publications

• Lee, L., Newman, T., Beasley, L., Kimiecik, C., Palomino, K. A. & Bosetti, R. (2025). College Athlete Resilience: Achieving Mental Wellbeing During a Pandemic. Journal of Intercollegiate Sport.
• Lee L., Newman, T., & Turgeon, S. (2024). Aggressive and violent behaviors and the role of life skills among collegiate club sport athletes. The Journal of Sport Behavior 47(3).
• Lee, L., Stauffer, A., Nino, S., Blumenthal, E. & Newman, T., (in progress). Understanding youth sport through experiential learning. In Koh K.T. (Ed.), A Practical Guide for Teaching Values and Life Skills in Physical Education and Sports. Routledge.
• Lee, L., Ferreira, M., Phillip, K., Dailey-Waver, A., & Newman, T. (2025). Life Adventure Center: Evaluation of staff training. Sport Social Work Research Lab, University of Kentucky.
• Lee, L., Patel, M., Corman, S., Vincent, A., Weaver, R., & Newman, T. (2025). Kentucky Elite Youth Sports Academy program evaluation report. College of Social Work, University of Kentucky.

Book Chapters

• Lee, L., Stauffer, A., Nino, S., Blumenthal, E. & Newman, T., (in print). Understanding youth sport through experiential learning. In Koh K.T. (Ed.), A Practical Guide for Teaching Values and Life Skills in Physical Education and Sports. Routledge.
• Newman, T., Lee, L., & Stauffer, A. (2024). An experiential approach to facilitative coaching and teaching social justice life skills. In Holt N., & McDonough M. H. (Eds.), Positive Youth Development through Sport (3^rd Ed). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003395867

Presentations

• Lee, L., Stauffer, A., Renner, D., Newman, T., American East Academic Consortium on Mental Health. (2025, January). Understanding College Athlete Mental Health: Interprofessional Insights from a Division I Athletic Conference [Poster presentation]. Society for Social Work and Research 29th Annual Conference, Seattle, WA.
• Lee, L., Newman, T., Beasley, L., Palomino, K., Rose, T., Kennedy, J., Chanan, D., & Mapfumo, E. (2024, June). Examining student-athlete comfortability in discussing mental health: Variations within gender, race, sexual orientation, and sport types. Alliance of Social Workers in Sport 10th Annual Social Work in Sports Symposium, Union, NJ.
• Showalter, K., Dillman, H., Li, Levone, & Rooks, D. (2024, April). Policy is fun: Reducing researchers’ repulsion. Resilience Conference- Hot Panel Submission. Nashville, TN.
• Newman, T., Lee, L., Blumenthal, E., Tarr, C., Santos, S., & Turgeon, S. (2024, January). The duality of sport social workers coaching critical positive youth development. Society for Social Work and Research 27th Annual Conference, Washington, DC.
• Newman, T., Bosetti, R., Lee, L., Turgeon, S., Moyer, V., Knuettel, M., Renner, D., & Florio, M. (2024, January). Resilience among college student-athletes: Achieving wellbeing during COVID-19. Society for Social Work and Research 27th Annual Conference, Washington, DC.
• Lee, L., Newman, T., Turgeon, S., Blumenthal, E., Wondal, M., & Stiehl Figueroa, I. (2024, January). Recentering positive youth development: Examining behavioral change through critical social justice lens. Society for Social Work and Research 27th Annual Conference, Washington, DC.
• Blumenthal, E., Newman, T., Lee, L., Stiehl Figueroa, I., Maimone, K., Wondal, M., Anderson-Butcher, D. (2024, January). The what, where, and how of life skill transfer: Exploring transfer application through photographs and journaling. Society for Social Work and Research 27th Annual Conference, Washington, DC.
• Newman, T., Lee, L., Bosetti, R., Florio, M., Kelshaw, P., Bessaha, M., Cimini, M. D., Ekas-Mueting, A., Mastroleo, N., Thorne, K., Turgeon, S., & Renner, D. (2023, September). College student-athlete mental health: An assessment of a Division I Athlete Conference. Themed panel presented at the Alliance of Social Workers in Sports 9^th Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.
• Turgeon, S., Newman, T., Moore, M., Bean, C., Lee, L., Knuettel, M., & Osmers Rahill, C. (2021, October). The dual pandemic: Covid-19, systemic racism, and college student-athletic mental health. Presentation presented at Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology, Virtual.
• Newman, T., Turgeon, S., Lee, L., & Stiehl, I. (2023, January). Violent behaviors and the role of life skills among collegiate club sport athletes. Poster presented at the Society for Social Work and Research 26th Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
• Newman, T., Lee, L., Bostick, K., Tarr, C., Robinson, E., & Turgeon, S. (2021, October). Ensuring the healthy development for youth through sport and recreation: Findings and implications from the Social Work & Sport Research Lab. Themed panel presented at the Alliance of Social Workers in Sport 7th Annual Social Work in Sports Symposium, Virtual.