Erin Bransford
Biography
Erin has been working at PSU since 2009, launching Campus Rec’s Fitness, Wellbeing, and Health Promotion programs for the opening of the Rec Center in 2010. In her role at Campus Rec she manages 30-40 undergraduate, graduate, and wage agreement employees and interns. She most enjoys working with new fitness professionals to develop their knowledge and skills and prepare them for future careers in fitness, health promotion, wellbeing, and recreation. Erin also teaches courses to prepare students to pass nationally recognized Group Fitness Instructor and/or Personal Trainer Certification Exams and has presented nationally on health promotion in Campus Recreation, size inclusion/anti-fat bias in fitness and recreation, and trauma-informed teaching in group fitness classes.
As Adjunct Faculty in the School of Public Health, Erin has been teaching Exercise Physiology since 2022.
In her free time, Erin enjoys rooting for the 49ers and engaging in exercise of all kinds, especially hiking, running, spin classes, and lifting weights. Erin has completed more than 50 triathlons and marathons, including 3 Ironmans. She has a husband, two daughters, and a dog and can’t wait to start road tripping to National Parks each summer.
Education, Degrees
BS in Biology with Minors in Exercise & Sports Studies and Fitness Instruction (University of California at Santa Barbara, 2005)
MA in Kinesiology (Sonoma State University, 2009)
¹ CEPH Primary Instructional Faculty
² CEPH Non-Primary Instructional Faculty
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