Excited to share that I’ll be serving on the judging panel for the 2026 Smarter Sports Awards (formerly The Sports Technology Awards) by the TheSTAGroup. If you’re building something truly innovative in sport, now’s the time to enter!

#SmarterSportsAwards

The Practical Value of Bayesian Inference in Describing the Epidemiology of Sports Injuries - Sports Medicine Sports injury surveillance programs have been vital in advancing the understanding of injury epidemiology across various athlete populations. Surveillance-based epidemiological measures of injury occurrence are ubiquitous in the sports medicine literature, and the injury rate is one such commonly used measure. Traditional approaches to calculating injury rates have predominantly relied on frequentist methods, which, while informative, have limitations in addressing certain practical questions. We explore an alternative Bayesian framework for analyzing injury rates, highlighting its potential to enhance sports medicine practice. We delineate the practical implications of adopting a Bayesian approach, contrasting key analytical outputs such as credible intervals with their frequentist counterparts. Through simulated and real-world examples, we demonstrate the types of analyses and inferences that are only possible within this framework. We particularly discuss how Bayesian methods allow for direct calculation of probabilities for specific outcomes and provide intuitive interpretations of uncertainty. We discuss the computational and inferential advantages of the Bayesian approach, illustrating how it can offer more nuanced insights into injury incidence in sport injury epidemiology.

Very proud to share our new paper in Sports Medicine:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

To collaborate with people whose work I deeply respect was a gift!

Many thanks to Ben Clarsen, Ian Varley, Karim Khan, Stephen W. Marshall & Roald Bahr!

#InjuryScience #Sportsmedicine

New Female Sports Performance and Research Initiative to fill critical gaps in women’s sports science IU, in collaboration with Indiana Sports Corp and Pacers Sports & Entertainment, will launch a first-of-its-kind research program dedicated to the hea...

Honored to help lead IU’s new Female Sports Performance & Research Initiative (with Katie Siek):
news.iu.edu/live/news/46...

Grateful to David Rosenberg & jonathancoffington.bsky.social + the IU LAB team & fellow committee members!

#SportsScience #WomensHealth #FemaleAthletes #InjuryPrevention

Great to be back with some amazing colleagues and leaders at the Isokinetic Conference this year! Many thanks to FIFA Medical for organizing a great session!

The league of chaos is back. Here's what we're watching this NWSL season Whether you're new to the National Women's Soccer League, or you've been a fan for its past 12 seasons, here's a preview of what you should watch out for when play kicks off this weekend.

Whether you're new to the National Women's Soccer League, or you've been a fan for its past 12 seasons, here's a preview of what you should watch out for when play kicks off this weekend.

Many thanks to the Joint Commission on Sports Medicine & Science for the invitation to speak at this year's annual meeting! A wonderful experience engaging with leaders in the sports medicine space!

NCAA Sport Science Institute Spotlight: NCAA Injury Surveillance YouTube video by NCAA Resources

Great to be a part of this session with NCAA and UNC colleagues!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfbh...