Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences
Department of Health and Human Performance
Preseason Evaluation for the Florida Panthers Hockey Club
Faculty, students, and alumni from the Department of Health and Human Performance (HHP) in the Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences, recently provided the NHL’s Florida Panthers Hockey Club with pre-season physical assessments.
Students of the Sports Science (M.S.) and Exercise and Sport Science (B.S) programs assisted Corey Peacock, Ph.D., associate professor, and Tobin Silver, Ph.D., professor, in supporting the Florida Panthers’ Sports Performance Team with physical metric testing. The students had an opportunity to complete hands-on physical assessments of strength, power, body composition and aerobic capacity while being provided direction by Mike Joyce, Florida Panthers head strength and conditioning coach, and Tim Wittenauer, Florida Panthers director of sports performance & rehabilitation. Silver and Peacock have provided this opportunity to students for nearly a decade.
Angie Dusak, M.S.S.S. graduate student, said, that she was “very appreciative for this great experience provided by the faculty at Nova Southeastern University, as this provided valuable networking and interactive learning in this field of sports science.” Additionally, the students and staff were able to review the data and understand the application of performance testing. Silver said, “the students learn so much about how an interdisciplinary sports medicine staff operates. They already have a great foundation of knowledge established from the Exercise Science curriculum. This provides an amazing hands-on opportunity to test that foundation of knowledge in professional sports.”
Alumni:
Jenna Johns, B.S.
M.S. Students:
Angie Dusak, Sigourney Kame, Ally Keil, Alex Meiser
B.S. students:
Jess Havens, Krystal Dao, Andrew Toledano, Kayla Gannon, Andrea Rosa, Caitlin Fred, John Pham, Isabella Rivero, William Loging, Joseph Petruzzelli, William Dean, Robert Rocanelli
Faculty:
Corey Peacock, Tobin Silver
Coaches:
Tim Wittenauer, Mike Joyce
