Explore Our Innovation Hubs
Based at five different universities, each innovation hub leverages its expertise and athletic strengths to develop practical knowledge in areas such as female athlete performance, wearable sensors, running, and basketball.
Female Athlete Program
The Innovation Hub @ the Women's Health, Sports & Performance Institute focuses on conducting female-specific translational research pertaining to the physiological, mental and sociological well-being of female athletes and innovating ways to improve the health of girls and women of all abilities through athletic participation and performance.
Human Performance Lab
The Innovation Hub @ Stanford University focuses on advancing the use of wearable sensors and other digital technologies to optimize athlete performance and health. It applies a design-focused approach to identify needs, invent solutions, and implement prototypes that address key bottlenecks in achieving this goal.
Sports Performance And Research Center (SPARC)
The Innovation Hub @ Emory SPARC focuses on enhancing player health, performance, and injury prevention in elite athletes, from youth to professionals, through innovative models optimized from biomechanical assessments, machine learning, and real-world performance analytics with a core emphasis on expandable tools and outreach to young athletes.
Jayhawk Athletic Performance Laboratory
With top-notch women’s and men’s basketball teams, along with many other first-rate sports teams, the Innovation Hub @ University of Kansas will focus on the rapid development and deployment of new approaches for optimizing performance for basketball players and other athletes.
Bowerman Sports Science Center
The Innovation Hub @ University of Oregon will focus on the development of predictive biomarkers and AI-based algorithms to improve the performance and injury recovery of track and field athletes at the developmental, elite, and masters levels.
Triton Center for Performance and Injury Science
The Innovation Hub @ UC San Diego focuses on designing next-generation tools to acquire high-value tissue and cell samples from athletes, creating a repository of the resulting biospecimens, and translating discoveries from bioassay analysis to the clinic for the benefit of athletes and the public.