Kentucky TV Station Films Arkansas Students During Wilderness Training
Four students who work at the Outdoor Connection Center at the University of Arkansas recently completed an 80-hour wilderness first responder training course at Western Kentucky University, and a local television station was there to document the training.
Lance Jackson, Darrell Shaw and Adam Cogbill are majoring in recreation and Corrie Byers is majoring in kinesiology in the College of Education and Health Professions. The students work at the Outdoor Connection Center in Intramural/Recreational Sports. Jennifer Hazelrigs, IMRS assistant director who manages the center, said the certification offered through the training course is required for student staffers who lead extended trips for the center, which is located in the HPER Building.
The center offers trips, seminars, clinics and workshops to students, faculty, staff and other HPER members as well as renting outdoor equipment and operating a full-service bicycle repair shop.
WBKO in Bowling Green, Ky., reported on the course, and Jackson and Shaw were on camera at the end of the news clip helping another student who played an injured person pinned under a tree. The clip can be viewed at http://www.wbko.com/home/headlines/81293682.html.
Contacts
Heidi Wells, director of communications
College of Education and Health Professions
575-3138,
heidisw@uark.edu
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