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Experts See a Wide Data Gap in Women’s Sports Science. This WNBA Team Owner Wants to Fix It
The Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance addresses a 94% research gap in female sports science to improve injury prediction and personalized training for women athletes.
- Five years ago, Clara Wu Tsai, owner of the New York Liberty, jump-started the effort by funding the alliance; this January, the Women's Health Sports and Performance Institute in Boston opened.
- With women now at 44% of NCAA athletes and only 6% of sports science studies focusing on females, the Alliance aims to close this research gap.
- Stanford director Scott Delp and collaborators developed video and biomechanical assessment tools used by more than 500 scientists across seven institutions to flag torso lag and limb alignment as ACL risk indicators.
- The Alliance aims to predict injuries and individualize care, coordinating outcomes with teams and training protocols while developing best practices on travel, eating, and sleep.
- Ongoing studies are tracking travel schedules and circadian disruption among WNBA and Australia's WNBL players as women reached 48% of athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics and girls' high school participation grew from 294,000 to 3.4 million.
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