Ithaca College

 Zachary McCarver ’18 won the Master’s Thesis Award at the 2019 Association for Applied Sport Psychology conference, for his thesis titled: "Exploring Domain-Specific Perfectionism: Do Excelling Student-Athletes Differ in Perfectionism compared to their Teammates?"

Zachary completed his thesis under the guidance of ESS faculty members: Sebastian Harenberg, Assistant Professor and chair of the thesis committee; and Justine Vosloo, Associate Professor.

Zachary is the first graduate of the ESS graduate program to win the Thesis Award at the AASP conference. He is currently a second year doctoral student at the University of Northern Colorado, where he is continuing his Sport Psychology studies.