On this episode of Appalachian Outdoorosity, Dr. Joy James, a professor in App State's Department of Recreation Management and Physical Education, interviews App State graduate, Britan Sides about their time at App State and more specifically the huge impact working at Outdoor Programs had on their life.
Show Notes
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Transcript
Becki Battista Welcome to Appalachian Outdoorosity where we encourage you to get outside and keep going outside. Hey, we will share Appalachian State stories that entertain, inspire and inform listeners about living an active outdoor lifestyle. Each episode features a story the goal to get you outside and keep you going outside to improve your overall wellness. This podcast is presented by the Hope Lab, where our purpose is to investigate the role of outdoor physical activity, exercise and play on the health, environment and human development.
Becki Battista The vision of the Hope Lab is to continue developing the foundation for promoting and supporting outdoor physical activity, exercise and play through interdisciplinary research. Feel free to check us out at www.hopelab.appstate.edu. Hi, my name is Becki Battista. I am a professor in Exercise Science at Appalachian State University and a self-proclaimed outdoor physical activity addict. On today's episode, team member Dr. Joy James, a professor and recreation management, interviews Britan Sides where they tell us how they got into outdoor recreation and how working at Appalachian State’s UREC/Outdoor Programs, has built both their skills and community.
Joy James We’re here today with Britan Sides, a student here at App State. Would you please introduce yourself and tell us where you're from and why you chose App State and what your major is?
Britan Sides Yeah, of course. So my name is Britan Sides. I'm a junior anthropology major at Appalachian State University. I'm actually a transfer student. I transferred from Wingate University. I just felt like I wanted to be here. I really didn't feel like I was just in the right space. So I ended up applying to transfer to Appalachian State University and got here and absolutely love it.
Britan Sides I love the atmosphere. I love the outdoor culture here. I'm from a really small town in the middle of North Carolina called Oakboro, North Carolina. It's pretty close to Charlotte, about 45 minutes from Charlotte. But yeah, that's a little bit about me.
Joy James Cool. Can you tell us about your favorite outdoor activity?
Britan Sides Yeah. So I actually just recently got into climbing, specifically bouldering. It's one of my favorite things to do. I've been going almost every day for the past two months to the climbing wall over at the University Rec Center. It's really awesome. I haven't been climbing outdoors yet, but I really want to do that. I'm just trying to get some people together to go because it definitely could be a dangerous sport to do by yourself.
Britan Sides But there's some really great spots over at Grandmother Mountain and just around the area in general to go bouldering. It's a really good workout. It's just really fun and you meet a lot of cool people through it. And I also am really into water sports, specifically stand up paddle boarding. That's another one of my favorite things to do.
Britan Sides It's also like a full body workout. It's very fun, especially down at the beach. And you can have dolphins. I have a dolphin swim up right by me one time, which was really awesome. So.
Joy James Oh, I'm jealous. Give me the timeline on bouldering. Was that something since you've come to app like in the last two months, or is it something for a year you've been doing?
Britan Sides Yeah, I've been app since the fall of 2020 and I was really scared to get it. Go to the climbing wall. I started working over Outdoor
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