Maria Betioli This is Me

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1. 1. BYU NewsNet - BYU Program Is Child's Play

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   Published on: 11/1/2006   Last Visited: 11/2/2006

   Most physical education teaching programs provide student with teaching opportunities sometime after the first year, but this delay causes an interruption in student progression said Maria Zanandrea, BYU faculty member over the experiential teaching class.
   
   "If they are going to be teachers, they must teach," Zanandrea said.

2. 2. BYU NewsNet - Alumni look back at Olympic experiences

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   Published on: 7/9/2002   Last Visited: 7/9/2002

   Like Pyrah, alumna Maria Zanandrea, too, knows of the stress and thrill involved in representing one's country in a worldwide competition.
   
   Zanandrea, who was on the volleyball team in 1972 and competed in the high jump in 1976 for Brazil, is now an associate professor of physical education at BYU.
   
   Her training involved six to seven hours a day in preparation for the Games, she said.
   
   "Going through it, I never thought it was too hard; it was simply the process I had to go through if I wanted to be there."
   
   Zanandrea said that although events vary greatly, the spirit of Games competition is the same.
   
   "Anytime I see any athlete that qualifies for the Olympics, or even qualifies for the trials, I know, I can feel how much effort was put into getting there because I have been there," she said.
   
   Even though Zanandrea didn't win a medal, she said it was still a privilege just to compete.
   
   "It doesn't matter how many years will pass or how bad or how good you have done in the Olympics, no one will take your effort away," she said.

3. 3. www.cougarclub.com

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   Published on: 4/5/2006   Last Visited: 3/23/2007

   Athletic achievement was already routine to Maria Betioli when she entered BYU in 1979 as a heralded freshman pentathlete from Sao Paolo, Brazil. Possessed with self-confidence and a sense of purpose, she had collected dozens of track and field awards in the high jump, relays, and hurdles. She has also competed for Brazil in the Olympic Games in two sports: track and field and volleyball.
   
   After signing with BYU as one of the first women to receive an athletic grant, Maria focused on the high jump-a sport that was to bring her seven All-America awards. The first six came under the sponsorship of the American Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), precursor to women's involvement in the NCAA.
   
   She was fourth at the 1979 AIAW outdoors (6-1 ¼), third at the 1980 AIAW indoors (6-1), second at the 1980 AIAW outdoors (6-0 ½), second (tie) at the 1981 AIAW outdoors (5-10 ¾), third at the 1982 AIAW indoors (6-0 ½), second at the 1982 AIAW outdoors (5-10), and fourth at the 1982 NCAA outdoors (6-0 ¼), the first year of NCAA sponsorship for women.
   
   Maria still holds the South American record: 6-3 ½. She also owned BYU's outdoor record of 6-1 ¼ for 15 years and the indoor record of 6-1 for nine years. She is now second on the university's all-time indoor and outdoor high jump lists.
   
   Although Maria is best remembered for her skills as a high jumper, she also garnered many points for the Cougars in the sprint and hurdle events. In fact, she still shares the school record for the 800-yard medley relay.
   
   Among her many athletic honors, she was named AIAW All-Region VII in 1982 and All-Intermountain Athletic Conference seven times between 1979 and 1983. She received the Cougar Club Competitor Award in 1982 and the "Go Forth to Serve" Award in 1991.
   
   Maria graduated from BYU in 1983 with a BS degree in recreation management and remained on campus to earn an MS degree in recreation administration in 1984 and an EdD in professional leadership in 1992.
   
   Reflecting the humanitarianism of her mother, a generous, caring person, Maria has served for 12 years with the Food and Care Coalition in Provo. In 1993 she was elected executive secretary of the coalition's board of directors and a member of its Program, Nomination, and Public Education Committees. She is also a valued member of the Task Force in Special Education for the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD).
   
   Maria is married to Hermes Zanandrea, a PhD graduate of BYU and a language translator and interpreter specialist.