Maddy Czeck, graduate student in the School of Kinesiology, is the lead author of the article, “Total and regional body composition of NCAA division I collegiate baseball athletes,” in the International Journal of Sports Medicine.
The publication examines the body composition of over 200 NCAA Division I male baseball players using Dual X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA). It discovered significant differences in total and regional body composition measurements across athlete position, as well as composition variances in an athlete’s throwing arm in comparison to their non-throwing arm. The study will inform coaches and trainers on normative positional DXA data for collegiate baseball players.
Donald R. Dengel, PhD, professor and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology, and Christiana Raymond-Pope, PhD and Tyler Bosch, PhD, graduates from the School, co-authored the article.
