Dr. Caitlyn Hauff, assistant professor of health promotion in the College of Education and Professional Studies, is passionate about mental health issues and athletes. Personally, she has been involved in sports since she was a toddler. Her dad was a collegiate tennis player, and Hauff was a multi-sport athlete growing up, participating in tennis, basketball, volleyball and softball most of her life. It was in college that Hauff realized the importance of the mental health side of sports.​ ​Her current research at South centers on health promotion, mainly through the use of behavior change theory and psychological skills training. She is involved in several projects with the College of Nursing, School of Computer Science, professors in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program and fellow professors in the Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Sport.