Don Laubenthal M.S. Coordinator -Human        Performance Center Office:  Delaware Hall 032 Phone: (614) 287-3843 E-mail:  dlaubent@cscc.edu

The 2000-2001 school year marked Don Laubenthal’s sixth year as Coordinator of the Sport & Exercise Studies’s Human Performance Center.   As part of his duties in that role, he also teaches several SES courses.  Under Don’s direction, the Human Performance Center has become an integral part of the entire campus as well as the Columbus community.  The center services Columbus State’s students, staff, faculty and administrators through the administration of fitness assessment testing and fitness training programs.  

In addition, as coordinator, Laubenthal has been instrumental in developing an extensive community service outreach program for the HPC.  Programs center around creating an awareness of the need for fitness in the client through education, by providing fitness level assessments, by developing risk factor reduction strategies and through the implementation of those strategies through fitness training, monitoring and evaluation.  Organizations that the HPC has serviced through those programs include the Columbus AIDS Task Force, Children’s Hospital, where they have worked with kids w/multiple birth defects, the Welfare to Work program for Columbus Public Schools, the Columbus Health Department (Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging and the Civil Service Department), the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department and the Mayor’s Office at City Hall. In addition, several years ago, Laubenthal developed an exercise manual for use by dialysis patients at Mt. Carmel West Hospital.

Prior to coming to Columbus State, the Zanesville native served as the Director of Fitness at the Scarborough East Tennis and Fitness Center from 1991 to 1998.  Before that, from 1990 to 1991, he worked as an exercise physiologist in the Occupational Therapy department at Bethesda Hospital in Zanesville.  While working on his master’s degree at Ohio University, he worked with the school’s football, baseball and men’s basketball teams as a strength and conditioning coach (1988-90).

Don and his wife of nine years, Jackie, reside with their son Caleb (2 years old) and daughter Alyssa (6 months old) in Canal Winchester.

Education

Master of Science
Exercise Physiology
Ohio University
1990

Bachelor of Science
Exercise Physiology
Ohio University
1988

Credentials

Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist - NSCA