Michelle Evans-Chase
Michelle Evans-Chase, Ph.D. grew up in Willingboro, New Jersey and has been a competitive swimmer since the age of 6. She swam for Rutgers University and grew up around open water swimming with her father and her brother. She has done open water swims in Monterey Bay and San Francisco Bay in California, Ketchikan, Alaska and Folkestone, England.
She has coordinated or directed the swims and support for all of Bruckner Chase’s marathon swims and is a coach for the Ocean City Swim Club. Her father was the late channel swimmer Lt. Colonel Stewart Evans.
Contents
- 1 Toa o le Tai ® - Surf Life Saving Sports & Jr Guard Training
- 2 Ocean City Swim Club / Bacharach Rehabilitation Hospital Swimming and Paddling Unified Team Program
- 3 Lecturer
- 4 WOWSA Awards
- 5 Education
- 6 Toa a le Tai Camden Introduction
- 7 Meet Your Endurance Mind, Mindfulness Meditation for Endurance Athletes
- 8 Mindfulness Meditation for the Endurance Athlete
- 9 World's 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Women
- 10 External links
Toa o le Tai ® - Surf Life Saving Sports & Jr Guard Training
She wrote the grant for the American Samoan Toa o le Tai program and is the co-founder of the Toa o le Tai ® - Surf Life Saving Sports & Jr Guard Training program in Camden, New Jersey, together with her husband Bruckner Chase.
Ocean City Swim Club / Bacharach Rehabilitation Hospital Swimming and Paddling Unified Team Program
Becky McGill, Bruckner Chase and Michelle Evans-Chase are the principals with the Ocean Swimming & Prone Paddleboarding program for Athletes with Spinal Cord Injuries together with the Bacharach Rehabilitation Hospital, and the City of Upper Township. They help individuals with spinal cord injuries learn how to move through the water and guides open water prone paddleboarding and swimming sessions. This Ocean City Swim Club / Bacharach Rehabilitation Hospital Swimming and Paddling Unified Team Program is a nominee for the 2013 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year.
Lecturer
Evans-Chase is a lecturer on the design and evaluation of programming for youth in the juvenile justice system informed by neuropsychosocial theories of adolescence. Her research experience includes 9 years as project coordinator of field projects in correctional and community settings. She designed the implementation of two risk-reduction programs for adolescents: a Mindfulness Meditation intervention for incarcerated youth, which she is evaluating using a randomized control design for her dissertation; and an ocean-based mentoring program for low-income youth in American Samoa.
WOWSA Awards
This Ocean City Swim Club / Bacharach Rehabilitation Hospital Swimming and Paddling Unified Team Program is a nominee for the 2013 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year award. Its nomination reads,
They create transformative ocean experiences to positively impact the quality of life for those unwilling to accept being an observer. Bruckner Chase and Michelle Evans-Chase with Becky McGill, the Bacharach Rehabilitation Hospital, and the City of Upper Township enable the most unlikely athletes to discover a personal connection to the ocean. By helping those with spinal cord injuries learn how to move through the water and guiding open water prone paddleboarding and swimming sessions, disabled athletes are leaving their wheelchairs and physical limitations on the beach to explore opportunities on and in the water. For their vision to bring the open water to a previously land-locked group, for their innovation to make paddling safe for those with severe physical challenges, for the empowering feelings and opportunities, the Ocean City Swim Club / Bacharach Rehabilitation Hospital Swimming and Paddling Unified Team Program is a worthy nominee for the 2013 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year.
Education
- Ph.D. received from the University of Pennsylvania in the School of Social Policy and Practice. Doctoral Program in Social Welfare. Dissertation Title: Mindfulness Mediation with Incarcerated Youth: A Randomized Controlled Trial Informed by Neuropsychosocial and Cultural Theories of Adolescence
- San Francisco State University - Master's in Psychology, 1999
- Rutgers University - Bachelor's in Psychology, 1989
Toa a le Tai Camden Introduction
Meet Your Endurance Mind, Mindfulness Meditation for Endurance Athletes
Mindfulness Meditation for the Endurance Athlete
In Ocean City, New Jersey
World's 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Women
She was named to the list of World's 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Women by the World Open Water Swimming Association in 2015.
External links
- Giving Back In The Open Water - Chasing Your Dreams
- Change Is Constant – Will It Come In San Francisco Bay?
- Bruckner Chase, A Waterman Appears On The Weather Channel
- Mindfulness Meditation To Help In The Ocean
- Bruckner Case Ocean Positive Receives Support From Christopher & Dana Reeves Foundation
- Channel Swimming with Stewart Evans: Walk In, Swim Across, Walk Out
- Open Water Swimming
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Awards, Honors Of The International Swimming Hall Of Fame
- Craig Lord Highlights Coronavirus Risks Of Open Water Swimming
- The World's 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Women
- Ocean City Swim Club
- Inaugural Aunu'u to Utulei Relay
- Bruckner Chase website
- 2012 World Open Water Swimming Offerings of the Year Nominations
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Toa o le Tai Program, Offering of the Year Nominee
- Abling The Disabled Both In And Out Of The Water
- Fearsome, Ferocious, Fickle Farallones Awaits The Irish
- Fearsome, Ferocious, Fickle Farallons Awaits South Africa
- Ph.D. From Penn Powers Positivity
- Finding True Love In The Open Water
- 1 + 1 > 2 In The Open Water Swimming World
- Swimming And Paddle Boarding With Spinal Injuries
- 2013 World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year Nominees
- Navigating With The First Couple Of Open Water Swimming
- Bits And Pieces From Farallon Islands History
- Bacharach Rehabilitation Hospital
- Blue Journey, An American Samoa Documentary In Scotland
- Safety Aspects Of Ocean Swimming
- Unified By Mind And Body In The Ocean
- Toa o le Tai, Surf Life Saving Sports & Junior Guard Training
- Meet Your Endurance Mind. Every Second Counts
- Michelle Evans-Chase, Ph.D.
- Happy Wife, Happy Open Water Life
- Bringing Challenged Athletes To The Open Water
- Ocean City Swim Club To Help Triathletes Get Ready
- The Blue Journey Is Expanding Globally
- Resurface To Begin The Healing Process In The Ocean
- Heroes And Heroines In The World's Oceans
- Able-Bodied In The Open Water
