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Graduate Assistant
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| Experience:
Third Season
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| Alma Mater:
Northern Illinois '06
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Marie Zidek embarks on her third season as a graduate assistant to the Oregon State volleyball coaching staff.
Zidek is working toward a Master's degree in Exercise and Sports Science and will assist in practice, game management, logistics, track team academic schedules, coordinate community service planning and will serve as the team's "Volleyball 101" tutor.
Zidek, a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the NSCA (National Strength and Conditioning Association), spent five months in 2006 working in the High Performance Training Center of the Kuortane Sports Training Institute in Finland. At Kuortane, Zidek worked as a strength and conditioning coach and also as an assistant coach for the Finnish National Volleyball Federation's U-20 men's team. In addition, Zidek provided lectures on the basics of psychology of sport and participated in long term training designs for rehabilitation of injured athletes.
A native of Chicago, Zidek graduated from Northern Illinois with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with and emphasis in preventative and rehabilitative exercise science in 2006. At NIU, Zidek also performed as a student-athlete for the Huskies' volleyball team where she earned Mid-American Conference All-Academic team honors and several other academic awards.
