The University of Delaware boasts several experts who can comment on health-related topics such as injuries and training and business-focused areas like marketing and team behavior as they relate to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, which begin next week.
Matt Robinson
Professor, sport management
Relevant expertise: Will be in Paris and can discuss the Olympics from an onsite perspective; can give the backstory on The International Coaching Enrichment Certificate Program (ICECP) and what’s new in the Paris Olympics.
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Tom Kaminski
Professor, kinesiology and applied physiology
Relevant expertise: Can comment on the impact of heading in Olympic soccer and has studied the risks of concussions in sports for nearly three decades.
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Karin Silbernagel
Professor, physical therapy
Relevant expertise: Research aims to advance the understanding of tendon and ligament injuries and repair. Can also discuss sailing.
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Tim DeSchriver
Associate professor, sport management
Relevant expertise: Sport finance, economics and marketing
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Other experts:
INJURIES:
Tom Buckley
Associate professor, kinesiology and applied physiology
Relevant expertise: Head impacts from boxing.
Stephanie Cone
Assistant professor, biomedical engineering
Relevant expertise: Studies the structure-function relationship that exists in tendons and ligaments with a special interest in changes in this relationship during growth and following injury.
Mike Eckrich
Clinical instructor, physical therapy
Relevant expertise: Weightlifting; can talk about the difference between men’s and women’s injuries and form in the sport.
Donald Ford
Physical therapy
Relevant expertise: Shoulder injuries/rehab expert
Jeffrey Schneider
Senior instructor, kinesiology and applied physiology
Relevant expertise: Athletic training and injury prevention, with a particular interest in ice skating injuries.
Worked with athletes competing in Winter Olympics (2002, 2006) as a strength and conditioning coach and athletic trainer.
EVENTS:
Jocelyn Hafer
Assistant professor, kinesiology and applied physiology
Relevant expertise: Race Walk events and how biomarkers are used in walking studies.
Airelle Giordano
Associate professor, physical therapy
Relevant expertise: Gymnastics; she was a collegiate gymnast
Kiersten McCartney
Doctoral student
Relevant expertise: Can chat about Paralympic Triathlon (running, hand cycling, swimming).
Steve Goodwin
Associate professor, health behavior and nutrition sciences
Relevant expertise: He is also in Paris leading a study abroad cohort. He has been to multiple Olympics, and can also speak to on-site experience, differences in games, etc.
George Edelman
Adjunct professor, physical therapy
Relevant expertise: How the "underwaters” technique gives Olympians an edge.
BUSINESS:
John Allgood II
Instructor, sport management
Relevant expertise: Sport business management, event management
SCIENCE:
Joshua Cashaback
Assistant professor, biomedical engineering
Relevant expertise: Specializes in neuromechanics and control of human movement. His research falls under two major themes: The neuroplasticity and adaptation research line tests how reinforcement feedback can subserve our ability to acquire new motor skills.