He is a youth sport, fitness, and physical activity specialist whose work in expanding impactful opportunities for comprehensive school physical activity programs (CSPAP) has led to a recasting of the role of a P-12 building physical educator to include all-inclusive opportunities for school-aged youth to become more physically active.
Urtel focuses on building and sustaining campus-community partnerships that engage students in service-learning and other high impact practices. Most of these collaborations are P-12 based using the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP) model. Secondarily, he has partnered with the Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) of Indiana and developed a Discovering Kinesiology camp to introduce the discipline of kinesiology to college-ready Indiana high school students.
