Phone: 828-227-7360
Email: claxton@email.wcu.edu
Office Address: Reid 100

Education:

• Ed.D., Arizona State University
• M.S.Ed., Baylor University
• B.S. in Physical Education, Baylor University

Research Interests:

Increasing levels of physical activity; physically active homework; balance as a component of health-related physical fitness; fitness contributions of various forms of physical activity.

Memberships:

• American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
• National Association for Kinesiology and Physical Education in Higher Education
• North Carolina Alliance for Athletics, Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance

Biography:

David Claxton teaches courses in aquatics, measurement and evaluation, and physical education curriculum. Before joining the faculty at Western Carolina University, he was a faculty member at Grand Canyon College in Phoenix, AZ, and at Baylor University in Waco, TX. Claxton served as the president of the North Carolina Alliance for Athletics, Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance in 2002 and was the founding president of the Jackson County, NC, chapter of Habitat for Humanity International.