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May 22, 2023
K-State announces new indoor track and field complex
Kansas State Athletics Director Gene Taylor announced recently that construction has commenced on a new indoor track and field complex as the department will transition the original football indoor building into a new facility for track and field. ...
May 22, 2023
Recovery Technology Education Platform Developed for NFL Athletic Trainers
Hyperice, the industry leader in recovery technology and pioneer of percussion, vibration, dynamic air compression, and thermal technology, recently announced the launch of athletic trainer education courses with PFATS, the Professional Footbal...
May 22, 2023
Study: Effects of repetitive head trauma on symptoms of sports-related concussion
In an effort to understand the effects of repetitive sport-related head injuries, researchers from the Department of Neurosurgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City evaluated a large multicenter database of more than 25,0...
May 10, 2023
Wisconsin coach admits to recording girls’ locker room for 2 years
A Wisconsin high school coach accused of planting a camera in the girls' locker room has secretly been recording student-athletes for two years. Brian Kitzman, the Craig High School coach in Janesville, WI, told police that he recorded an estimati...
April 10, 2023
Georgetown baseball campaign receives $4.8M gift
The Georgetown Baseball Campaign received a program-defining challenge gift of $4.8 million to support and enhance scholarship and coaching endowments. This gift will make significant progress towards the overall campaign goal to support three are...
April 10, 2023
EWU fundraising for Gatorade Fuel Station Project
Eastern Washington University Athletics announced on Monday a new student-athlete nutrition and recovery station project ahead of the university's annual Giving Joy Day on April 3. The Gatorade Fuel Station will be privately funded with nearly $1...
April 10, 2023
Congress wants ‘national standard’ for college NIL deals
Now that the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) era is here in college athletics, allowing players to profit off their play with endorsement deals, members of Congress want to set national standards. In the two years that NIL sponsorships have been a...
April 10, 2023
Statistics professor leads study on player performance over time
Charles A. Dana Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers recently published a paper entitled “Estimation of player aging curves using regression and imputation” in the Annals of Operation Research. The paper discusses the best ways to est...
Girls who play sports report 5 times higher levels of meaning and purpose compared to those who never played.
Study: Sports play critical role in promoting girls’ mental health
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A new study on mental health by the Women's Sports Foundation found gi...