Christiana Raymond-Pope, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the School of Kinesiology’s Skeletal Muscle Plasticity and Regeneration Laboratory, is the lead author of the article, “Total and regional body composition of NCAA division I collegiate basketball athletes,” in the International Journal of Sports Medicine.
This study examines body composition using dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) in 210 male and female NCAA Division I collegiate basketball athletes, making it the largest study of its kind so far. The number of athletes allows evaluation by position, and the research found that there were both sex- and position-specific total and regional body composition measurement differences in collegiate basketball players. The data can be used by coaches and sport performance staff to create more effective training and nutritional programs for athletes.
Dr. Raymond-Pope graduated from the School with her MS and PhD in the focus area of exercise physiology. Co-authors of the article include Donald R. Dengel, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology, Tyler Bosch, PhD, and Anna Solfest, kinesiology alumni.
