“A Review of Turfgrass Sports Field Variability and Its Implications on Athlete-Surface Interactions” with Dr. Chase Straw.

Sports scientists study how athletes perform during exercise and how that affects the body. Turfgrass scientists study how to improve and maintain the health of turfgrass. But what happens when you combine the two? Dr. Chase Straw’s review paper decided to find out, searching out research that combines both fields to better understand athlete biomechanics, physiology and perceptions, performance, and injuries.

Listen in to find out:

• How combining player, lab, and field data can increase player performance and safety
• What impact perceptions can have on how players perform
• What new technologies are being used to measure things like athlete performance and biomechanics
• What research gaps still exist when comparing and combining these fields

If you would like more information about this topic, this episode’s paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.20193

It will be freely available from 21 August to 4 September, 2020.

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Resources

CEU Quiz: http://www.agronomy.org/education/classroom/classes/859

Texas A&M Aggie Turf Program: https://aggieturf.tamu.edu/

Texas A&M AggieTurf Program Twitter: @AggieTurf

Chase’s Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aAvX0rUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

Sports Fields: Design, Construction, and Maintenance by James C. Puhalla, Jeffrey V. Krans, and J. Michael Goatley: https://amzn.to/2CYc5DD

The Science and Engineering of Sport Surfaces (Routledge Research in Sports Technology and Engineering) by Sharon Dixon, Paul Fleming, Iain James, and Matt Carré: https://amzn.to/2D60JNM

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