Presidential Fellows

KATHERINE REIFURTH-2015 Scholarmajor & degree: Sport & Entertainment Management, Ph.D.hometown: Honolulu, HIcontact: kreifurth@gmail.comOriginally from Hawaii, I grew up waking up at 6:30 a.m. on Sundaysto go to a local sports bar with my dad to catch Packers footballgames. It was normal to call my dad during the spring and summerand find him taking off work to catch a good baseball game. People onthe mainland make similar (but maybe not quite as drastic) sacrificesfor their favorite sports teams. My question has always been, “Why?”.Why, and how, did I grow up to be this crazy Packers fan? Why am Imore loyal to the Packers than I am to any other brand? I’m here to learn all I can about consumer behaviorand fan development in sports, and, hopefully, in my time at USC, I can find answers to thesequestions.LAURA REINMAN-2013 Scholarmajor & degree: Clinical-Community Psychology, Ph.D.hometown: Gunnison, COcontact: laura.reinman@gmail.comI am a native Coloradan and received my bachelor’s in psychologyfrom the University of Denver in 2011. While attending the Universityof Denver, I was an undergraduate research assistant for three yearsand completed an honors thesis on the stress and health of Hispanicimmigrant children and their mothers. More recently, I worked as aprofessional research assistant at Children’s Hospital Colorado. There,I worked with children who sustained traumatic brain injuries and with children on the autism spectrum.I am very excited to work alongside Dr. Jeff Schatz in the Neuropsychology and Human DevelopmentLaboratory at USC. In my free time I enjoy being outside, running, riding horses, watchingsports, and spending time with friends and family.32