Performance Innovation Teams
Performance Innovation Teams (PITs) are created to focus on the rapid and agile implementation of performance science within various populations.
Created in early 2022, the Human Performance Collaborative and the Ohio State Department of Athletics created a one-of-a-kind Performance Innovation Team with a goal of establishing a leading sports science program. The PIT will:
- Enable Ohio State to stay on the cutting edge of human performance technology through the constant evaluation and development of new tools.
- Ensure our student athletes have access to the absolute best available monitoring and recovery technologies.Provide athletes with real-time support, driving the mission of athlete health, safety, and performance.
- Evaluate technologies, employ advanced data analytics, spur new technology development, and most importantly, help to optimize health and performance of student athletes at Ohio State.
- Act as an accelerator for sport performance research through the collaboration and leveraging of Department of Defense (DoD) funded research at the HPC. This would give our teams the ability to submit for larger research dollars, which provides direct benefit back to Athletics through use of advanced knowledge and tools that otherwise would be unavailable to an athletic department.
- Provide mentoring to both Undergraduate and Graduate students which will further their careers, and provide benefit back to Athletics through direct support, and HPC through research initiatives.
THE TEAM
Co-Leaders
- Josh Hagen, PhD - Faculty Director, Human Performance Collaborative and Associate Research Professor, Dept. of Integrated Systems Engineering
- Tyler Carpenter - Director for Sport Performance, Department of Athletics
OSU Athletics
- Doug Calland - Associate Athletic Director, Sports Performance
- Paul Jones - Associate Sport Scientist
- Mickey Marotti - Assistant Athletics Director for Football Sports Performance
- Kaila Olson - Performance Dietitian
- Adam Stewart - Physical Therapist, Athletic Trainer
Human Performance Collaborative
- William Kraemer, PhD - Senior Advisor for Sports Performance and Sports Science and Adjunct Professor, College of Education and Human Ecology
- Samantha Krening, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Integrated Systems Engineering
- Jimmy Onate, PhD - Director, Division of Athletic Training, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
- Emaly Vatne - Graduate Research Associate, Human Performance Collaborative
- Michael Dial, PhD - Post Doctoral Scholar, Human Performance Collaborative