UW-Oshkosh Kinesiology Department

06/20/2025

Congratulations Dr. Biese!! We are excited to see you continue this important research and share your expertise with our students!

🎉 Congratulations to our 2025 NATA Foundation Professional Grant Awardees! 🎉
We’re proud to support innovative research that advances the athletic training profession. This year’s funded projects tackle critical topics from post-ACLR knee health to youth sport specialization and pediatric injury care.

👏 Thank you to the Ted Quedenfeld Endowment for supporting two of this year’s New Investigator Grants.

💡 Learn more about our research funding:
🔗 https://www.natafoundation.org/research/grant-opportunities/

05/17/2025

Congratulations graduates!! We are so proud of you and wish you all the best on the next step of your journey!

05/14/2025

The Kinesiology Department was well represented by our students at the end of the year Celebration of Student Leadership ceremony! Two of our students won individual university awards. Kennedy Koehler, a rehabilitation science major, won the Rising Star Award and Zoey Garcia, another rehabilitation science major, won the Unsung Hero Award. Congratulations to you both! Lastly, Abby Fregien and Olivia Breunig both received a Chancellor's Award for Excellence. Congratulations to all of our award winners and thank you for the positive impact you have and are making on our department, university, and community!

05/06/2025

Dr. Biese has worked with a youth sport specialization research group based at UW-Madison for the past 8 years. Last week, Dr. Biese and his colleagues were ecstatic to see their most recent work published, "Development and Validation of the Wisconsin Sport Specialization Questionnaire (WISSQ) for Older Adolescent Athletes." The validated survey is the first of its kind to provide a scale of youth specialization not only on an athlete's sport volume and exclusion of other sports, but also on the motivation for specializing in a sport and the social factors that may lead to an athlete specializing in a sport. If you are interested in youth sport specialization, you can check out this article below along with the two other articles that proceed this publication.

Development of the WISSQ --> https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2025/04/23/bjsports-2024-108453.abstract

Content validity of the WISSQ --> https://www.jospt.org/doi/full/10.2519/josptopen.2024.0065

Defining the term sport specialization --> https://meridian.allenpress.com/jat/article/56/11/1239/463252/Consensus-Definition-of-Sport-Specialization-in

05/01/2025

Great work Dr. Lace Luedke!!

In the new issue, Lace E. Luedke, PT, PhD, DPT and colleagues examine the relationship between the running readiness scale and lower extremity injury in T/F and XC collegiate athletes.

Paper: https://doi.org/10.4085/1062-6050-0309.24

04/29/2025

The Department of Kinesiology was well represented at the Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Activity event this past Wednesday and Thursday. Kinesiology had a total of 8 students present and the department had diverse research represented from Dr. Wallace (5 projects), Dr. Petit (1 project), and Dr. Biese's (1 project) mentorship.

Congratulations to our undergraduate presenters Abby Fregien, Olivia Breunig, Kendall Thews, Brett Norling, Kierra Boyd, and Jon Mathieu. Additionally, congratulations to our Master's of Science in Athletic Training students Drue Polka, and Olivia Davel!

Last but certainly not least, Olivia Breunig and Abby Fregien know how to win whether they are helping the women's volleyball team reach the Elite Eight or presenting research. Their Student project, under the direction of Dr. Wallace, won the most prestigious undergraduate poster session award, the John & Linda Schuh Student Research and Scholarly Activity Award! Congratulations to you both on another "victory" during your illustrious UW Oshkosh academic careers!

04/25/2025

A huge congratulations to Olivia Breunig and Abby Fregien and their research mentor Dr. Brian Wallace. Olivia and Abby competed in the WiSys Quick Pitch competition and represented the Kinesiology Department well! Their presentation took 2nd place, AND they took home 1st place for the "People's Choice Award". Congratulations again, Olivia, Abby, and Dr. Wallace for sharing your amazing work!

04/08/2025

Last week, Kinesiology student Kennedy Koehler presented her research (mentored by Dr. Kyle Petit) at the Research in the Rotunda event in Madison, WI. Kennedy and Dr. Petit joined researchers from around the state to highlight incredible student projects happening in Wisconsin. Kennedy and Dr. Petit’s project was specific to the differences between athletes and non-athletes when using a concussion diagnostic tool that measures balance and reaction time. Great job, Kennedy and Dr. Petit!

04/03/2025

The Pre-Rehabilitation Professionals Society had Grant Yee, from the Green Bay Packers and Atlanta Falcon's seasonal/fellowship athletic trainer, present to the club about working in the NFL as an athletic trainer. Grant had great wisdom to share on how to help your application stand out in the crowded job market of professional sports. He also demonstrated how to use vacuum splints! Thank you Grant for your time and for answering all the students' questions!

03/28/2025

The department is proud to share that the university’s Office of Sponsored Programs has asked Dr. Brian Wallace to present on how he incorporates undergraduate students into his research agenda. This is an area Dr. Wallace excels in and will generate great conversations with faculty across the university. Thanks for sharing your expertise, Dr. Wallace!

03/23/2025

Congratulations to our own, Dr. Kyle Petit, for receiving a $10,000 Wisconsin System’s Spark Grant! Dr. Petit is using this grant to study how concentrated oxygen therapy could be used in concussion recovery. This study specifically is examining how concentrated oxygen impacts oxygen levels in the brain.

03/16/2025

Congratulations Davian!!

Davian Willems finished the final round of the 60-meter dash in 6.64 seconds, securing second place🥈

The All-America performance is his second straight in the event🏆 🏆

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