Water you Dewing to Stay

Hydrated?

By: Sara Hayes, Christina Savoth, and Maya Yoder

Part 1: Needs Assessment
● Target Audience:
○ Female Collegiate Athletes (Ages 18-22) at Marywood University
● Goal:
○ The goal of this assessment is to use statistics, interviews, and surveys to determine and analyze
the hydration habits of female collegiate athletes at Marywood University. This will be achieved
by September 26, 2018.

● Objectives:
○ Interview the athletic trainer about their knowledge of hydration and student dehydration by
September 17, 2018.
○ Interview the volleyball, field hockey, and softball coaches individually by September 23, 2018
about their knowledge of their team’s hydration
○ Survey the volleyball, field hockey and softball athletes and analyze the results by September 26,
2018 about their knowledge and actual consumption of water during game days.
 Part 1: Needs Assessment (con’t)
● Interview with athletic trainer:
○ Believes the target population is not hydrated enough.

○ Many athletes go into the athletic trainer’s office dehydrated and talk about the color of their urine

being darker in color.

○ She also stated that a lot of the players tend to drink caffeinated drinks,

○ The athletic trainer recommends at least 8 ounces for every hour they are practicing.

○ Since the trainer is present at most sports events, her observations are that the athletes only take a

squirt of water from the Gatorade bottles.

Part 1: Needs Assessment (con’t) Analyze data:

Softball: Volleyball: Field Hockey:

● Coach- in-person ● Coach- via email ● Coach - email

○ Enforces several
precautions to try to
prevent his players
from becoming
dehydrated (5-6 water
breaks a practice)
● Players- Survey Monkey ● Players- survey monkey
○ 11 out of the 13
participants said they
drink significantly less
than that 10 cups of
water in the survey
○ Understands the ○ Encourages players to
stay hydrated by giving
importance of
them 2-3 (2 minute)
hydration and water breaks per
discusses urine color practice
with her players. ● Players - 9 responses to survey
monkey
○ Most believe they do ○ 77% of players reported
not drinking enough
not hydrate enough
water
and only take a few ○ 67% of players reported
sips during practices having dark urine (being
or games dehydrated)
 Part 2: Program Goals
● Mission Statement: College athletics provides the athletes to be well-rounded individuals. With
proper education, their health and well-being can be greatly increased in order for them to be at their
healthiest during the season.
● Goal: To educate our community of collegiate female athletes on the importance of hydration before,
during and after events in order to prevent serious health consequences.

● Objectives:

○ 80% of our target audience will understand the ways to improve hydration.

○ 75% of our target audience will know how much water to drink before, during and after games.

○ 75% of our community of female athletes will increase their water intake.

○ 50% of athlete injuries due to dehydration will be less prevalent in our community.
Part 3: Lesson Plan
● Health Belief Model

○ Emphasizes perceived threat as a motivating source and perceived benefits as a preferred path to action
● Target audience: Female collegiate athletes between the ages of 18-22 on the Marywood Field Hockey team.
● Program goal: The participants will learn the benefits of hydration in order to prevent fatigue, poor performance, and
injuries.
● Objectives: The participants will be able to:
○ Improve hydration knowledge by understanding how much water to drink before, during and after exercise.
○ Understand other ways to improve their overall hydration, besides just water.
○ Identify the health consequences when overall hydration is not achieved.
● Duration: ~40 Minutes
Part 3: Lesson Plan (con’t)

1. Pre Assessment: (2 minutes)

a. Pre-assessment was via survey monkey prior to the lesson
b. Ask a few of the same questions again
2. Procedure (with approximate time):
a. Background in hydration (2 minutes)
b. Benefits of being hydrated (2 minutes)
c. Amount of water before, during and after practice/ games (5 minutes)
d. Show athlete's how to calculate out their needs via worksheet (10 minutes)
e. Ways to hydrate (2 minutes)
f. Learning activities: Calculation lesson/worksheet and post assessment kahoot questionnaire.
1. Evaluation/Post-assessment: Trivia/kahoot, winner gets a water bottle. Survey to see if this program was helpful
Part 4: Marketing Plan, SWOT
● Strengths- How simple it is for the audience to understand the information and the adaptability for the
audience to do these interventions on their own.

● Weaknesses- Getting the whole team to come together to listen. Everyone is busy and have their own
schedules making it difficult for them to want to come to this presentation. Due to this, it may not be a truly
effective presentation for the whole team.

● Opportunities- A possible opportunity to overcome this would be giving an incentive to the athletes after
the presentation

● Threats- The threats of this program that could make it ineffective is the possibility of the athlete’s busy
schedule, school work or other commitments, getting in the way of them performing these interventions on
a day to day basis. This can cause them to continue to lack good hydration status. An example of this would
include forgetting to bring water to class and not catching up on what they missed.
Part 4: Marketing Strategy
Product- The product presented to the target audience is nutrition education on proper hydration.
Softball:
● Place- Center of Athletics
and Wellness
● Promotion- Team
GroupMe (2x)
● Position- convenient, due
to the whole team being
in attendance, as well as
the ability to hydrate for
future training
Volleyball:
● Place- Center of Athletics and
Wellness
● Promotion- marketed through
a volleyball player to tell her
teammates and the coach
● Position- inconvenient, due to
their season ending, it was at
their end of season party.
Field Hockey:
● Place- Study room in LC
● Promotion- one of the team
members
● Position- (convenient) in
the middle of the day so
they have enough time to
hydrate properly before
practice
Part 5: Materials

● Powerpoint
● Paper / pencil
● Calculator
● Labeled water bottle
● Poland Springs Water Bottle (Softball Team)
Part 6: Reflection

● Process Evaluation
● Structure Evaluation
● Impact Evaluation
● Outcome Evaluation
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