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Editorial
. 2022 Sep 8;7(3):69.
doi: 10.3390/jfmk7030069.

"Are You Doing Any Sport Science?" A Brief Editorial

W G Hornsby  1 , B H Gleason  2 , M DeLong  1 , M H Stone  2   3
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Editorial

"Are You Doing Any Sport Science?" A Brief Editorial

W G Hornsby et al. J Funct Morphol Kinesiol. .

Abstract

This brief opinion-based editorial addresses what the authors perceive to be a fundamental issue in the application of sport science, and these issues are reflected by the question "Are you doing any sport science?" As sport science has grown within the United States, organizational sport science budgets have grown, with increasing interest in developing various sport science initiatives. While it is indeed an exciting time for sport science, the authors suggest that, too often, sport science pursuits are driven by commercially available technologies and viewed as an "add-on" instead of pursuing an integrated systematic approach to informing the training process.

Keywords: athlete monitoring; sport science; sport scientist.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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“The Sport Science Café”.
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