AAPAR Award Recipient Profile
Linda Hilgenbrinck
| Council: | Adapted Physical Activity Council |
| Award: | Adapted Physical Education T. O. Y. - National |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Profile: | Linda Hilgenbrinck received her Bachelor’s degree from MacMurray College, her Master’s degree from the United States Sports Academy and her Ph.D. in Adapted Physical Education from the Department of Kinesiology at Texas Woman’s University. She holds teacher certification in physical education all levels in Texas and the National Certification for Adapted Physical Education Specialist (CAPE). She holds two Texas Parks and Wildlife Department program certifications (Angler Education, Archery). Marking her 30th teaching year, she began as a Physical Educator/Coach at the Illinois School for the Deaf. Her career spanned assignments in: residential facilities, public and private, urban and rural schools; alternative education programs and lock up facilities/prisons; as a faculty member at Northern Illinois University; and the past seven years in Denton ISD as the past APE Coordinator and now an APE Specialist. During her seven years in Denton, she as authored and been awarded four grants from the Denton Public School Foundation. To date, she has secured roughly $45,000 in small grants, equipment acquisitions/donations and/or funds for APE/A programming. She is frequently invited to guest lecture by colleagues from around the state and other parts of the nation. She has presented papers of APE topic presentations at local, regional, state, national/international levels plus assorted publications. She has served and is currently a Board of Directors Member-at-Large Officer of the National Consortium on Physical Education and Recreation for Individuals with Disabilities. She has served on the Texas Foundation AHPERD Committee and currently serves as the Area 5 Section/Region Officer TAHPERD. She has been recently inducted into Culver-Stockton College’s (MO.) NAIA DII Athletic Hall of Fame as an assistant basketball coach; and the Illinois Amateur Softball Association Hall of Fame as a team member/player with the Quincy Jets Softball Organization (IL.). She was awarded the TAHPERD Adapted Physical Education Teacher of the Year, December, 2011; the Southern District Adapted Physical Education Teacher of the Year, February, 2012; and most recently the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance National Adapted Physical Education Teacher of the Year, March, 2012. |