ESS Students Present at Health Sciences Scholarship Day
Twenty Exercise and Sport Science students presented posters at the second annual College of Health Sciences Scholarship Day held April 19 at the EKU Center for the Arts. The scholarly work reflected individual and student-faculty research, case studies and literature reviews in athletic training, sport management, coaching, exercise physiology, human performance and fitness. A total of 129 posters from seven departments in the College were presented. Highlighting the day's program was keynote speaker Dr. David Dyjack, Executive Director of the National Environmental Health Association, who spoke on "charting a course to further advance and elevate the environmental health arena both nationally and globally."
Daniel DeLuca (The Impact of Winning on Donor Behavior: A case Study) and Shelby Davis (Putting the Athletic Back in the Trainer) received outstanding poster awards for the graduate and undergraduate student divisions respectively.
Exercise and Sport Sciences students and their poster titles included:
Tyler Hurley - The effects of yoga programming on physical and psychological well- being of elderly
Sarah Beatty - Psychological consequences of concussions in sports
Corey Neal - Team performance and the effect it has on fan identification in the National Football League
Taylor Riggs - Sponsorship in professional and collegiate sports
Daniel DeLuca - The impact of winning on donor behavior: A case study
Emily Frith - Associations between energy drink supplementation and anaerobic power and velocity generation
Emily Frith - Associations between energy drink supplementation and anaerobic power and velocity generation
Kurtis Strauel - Relationship between corporate incentive-based wellness programs and employee weight loss
Neal Settle - Concussion education in boy's high school soccer players and the effect that it has on in-game concussion reporting
Shelby Davis - Putting the athletic back in the trainer
Michael James, Jr. - Certification of high school coaches
Jennifer Chiu - Pain and mental health care for pregnant women in the third trimester and postpartum
Ebony Inskeep - The impact professional athletes and social media have on product sales
Mallory Linton - The effects of music on physical activities
Lauren Close - Looking beyond education: The role of mentorship in the development of expert coaches
Alexandra Chutskoff - Resistance training in children
Generoso Coscarelli - Concussion management in athletics
Zachary Bell - The effects of effective caffeine supplementation on performance and skill level in Division I female soccer players
Zachary Bell - Effect of pre-workout supplementation on exercise performance
Jared Smith - Media controversies in sport and the effect of social media
Published on April 19, 2016