Husker Athletic Performance Symposium

Legendary running coach Dr. Joe I. Vigil, who led U.S. Olympic Teams in Seoul 1988 and Beijing 2008, was the keynote speaker at the inaugural Huskers Performance Symposium, Dec. 9-10 at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.

Vigil was among nine guest speakers, all leaders in athletics sports science, for a symposium geared toward directors of sports medicine and sports science, sports performance individuals and athletic directors.

Symposium Highlights:

• Live 3D Motion Capture and Force Plate technology demonstration from NAPL
• Technology demonstration from HUDL
• Brian Kopp discussion of cutting-edge technology from CATAPULT
• Husker Power’s Boyd Epley’s firsthand history of Husker innovation
• Daniel Kant-Hull’s use of CATAPULT technology with sports teams
• Fatigue Science’s actigraphs help teams track sleeping patterns
• EliteForm’s Skip Cronin MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
• HUDL’s Cliff Carlson discussion of high performance team characteristics
• NAPL’s Curt Tomasevicz explanation of engineering in bobsledding