Dr. Becky Jager earned her doctorate from the University of New Mexico with the honors of Distinction in 2007. Dr. Jager's areas of focus are: the American West, Latin America , and Gender Studies. Dr. Jager currently teaches Modern American History at the University of Idaho . There she also helps coach the Lady Vandal Swim Team. While teaching and coaching at the University of Idaho , Becky is in the process of revising her manuscript (on Indian women as Cultural Intermediaries) for Oklahoma Press.
While pursuing her academic career Dr. Jager has been an entrepreneur, owner / operator of Gold Medal Swimming Inc. since 1989. It is a company that offers swim clinics, motivational speeches, swim camps for competitive swimmers around the world, and a local age-group swim team in Moscow , Idaho . Becky has managed to juggle two careers in athletics and academia with humor, and an unwavering commitment to young people who are striving to meet their academic and athletic goals.
Like the women we will be talking about, Becky has been creative in her career endeavors. She, like many American women, has had to design a flexible career path that allows for intermittent interruptions to focus on raising and supporting a family. Together with her husband of 24 years, the couple raise two young boys as they run a successful family business with the sole purpose to develop student athletes into confident and successful adults. |