Dr. Faith Brown
SPORT SCIENCE
To comprehensively utilize evidence-based technology and methodologies to optimize sport performance training and reduce injury risk. Data collected assists in guiding and managing sport training and sport performance training and provides feedback on the efficacy of the sport performance and sport training programs.
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Initial communication with coaches to discuss overall team goals of sport science implementation is critical to determining the ideal structure of the sport science program.
What is my approach to sport science?
I am currently studying for the Certified Performance and Sport Scientist certification (CPSS) through the NSCA.
What sport science technology do I have experience with?
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Catapult
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Polar (H9, H10, Team Pro)
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Firstbeat
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Oura ring
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Force plates (VALD)
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Vert
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Isokinetic muscle testing (HUMAC)
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DXA
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BodPod
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Motion capture (Vicon)
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Metrifit
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Subjective exertion and wellness questionnaires
I analyze and visualize all data in either RStudio, SPSS, Google Sheets or Excel​
Sport Science Implementation
This graph is of an athlete who underwent periodic isokinetic muscle testing via HUMAC, and then underwent an ACLR in July of 2025. This graph highlights her right and leg quadriceps peak torque measured periodically across two years.
The January 2023, May 2023, and January 2024 measurements were routine. For the June 2024 measurement, she was a subject for a research study where she did a muscle fatiguing protocol prior to the HUMAC testing which explains the decrease in values.
The last three data points show a decrease in quadricep strength 6 months following injury which is to be expected and a large increase in quadriceps strength at 8 months post surgery. This data was collected by myself or a member of our lab staff, shared with the athlete's surgeon and university athletic trainer. I use this data to objectively quantify her strength compared to her baseline or previous scores and during the return to play process, we re-test to ensure the strength training program is increasing strength. This testing is superior to manual quadriceps strength testing often done by physicians and physical therapists because we have a consistent and repeatable resistance throughout the entire range of motion and are provided quantifiable numbers. The results of this testing are another piece of the puzzle and is additional information utilized to guide her return to play journey.
This figure highlights the individual loads experienced by athletes during a game and then a small group workout. This graph was created to show sport coaches the need for additional basketball workouts in-season for low minute athletes. The blue bars are the loads sustained by low minute athletes on a game day and the light gold bars and the loads experienced by high minute athletes on that same game day. The orange bars are the loads experienced by low minute athletes the next day during a small group workout for the low minute athletes only. The high minute players did not participate in any basketball training that day thus they have no load data. The green bars are the sum of the low minute game loads and the next day low minute small group workout loads. The average sum of both days for the low minute athletes is now much closer to the game loads sustained by the high minute athletes. This is important to manage throughout the season because low minute athletes can decondition throughout the course of a season of being exposed to low loads across an extended period of time. Conversely, high minute athletes (when strategically exposed to higher loads across a long period of time) improve cardiovascular fitness.
This figure was created as a template to schedule practice duration, volume, intensity, and the type of strength training workout daily across a week in-season.
This was created based on averages of two years of year-round data with the same coaching staff and majority of the same athletes.
This is a table of in-season force plate jump height testing results. Athletes were tested weekly on the day after an off day and the morning of game days to assess readiness. Values were sent to coaches in a weekly report with a short explanation of the meaning of values.