Accomplishments: UNLV Sports Innovation Institute

Vernice Ollano, UNLV alumnae; Tedd Girouard (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences); John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences; UNLV Sports Innovation Institute); and Mehdi Kordi from the United Kingdom published "The use of heated garments as a warm-up for sprint and submaximal effort cycling" in the Journal of Exercise Physiology - On…
Cordero Roche (UNLV Sports Innovation Institute) served as a distinguished panelist at the Las Vegas Lights’ inaugural "Work in Sports Night" held at Cashman Field. During the event, Roche provided valuable insights into his academic background, his extensive experience working with professional sports teams as a Sport Scientist and Strength…
Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education; UNLV Sports Innovation Institute) was featured in episode 10 of the City Cast Las Vegas podcast. In this episode she does a deep dive into the complexities of endorsements, sponsorships, pay-to-play in pro sports, and how we can get to pay parity for women's sports.
Dr. Nate Hollister (Emergency Medicine) and his colleague Scott McDonald (Kinesiology) organized the Circus Meets Medicine conference held at UNLV on March 22, 2024. The conference featured live demonstrations from artists as well as speakers discussing perspectives from elite performers and experts on injury management, biomechanics, and well-…
John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Science; UNLV Sports Innovation Institute) and Andrew Craig-Jones, a UNLV alum now assistant professor at Augusta University, were the senior and lead author on the paper "The effect of compression garments on biomechanical and physiological factors" in Biomechanics. This paper also was co-authored by James…