Dev: Sports Science
Our Mission
Optimize the human potential and growth of all Pitt student-athletes through data-informed decision-making.
Our Vision
Create a championship advantage for Pitt Athletics through unmatched innovation, validation and application of sports science best practice to team performance.
Jay Vidovich
Head Men’s Soccer Coach
"Pitt Men’s Soccer has benefited greatly from our collaboration with Pitt Sports Science. Our workflow is maximized due to Felix’s ability to put data from multiple sources into a soccer context, and provide usable data that both validates and informs our decision making process as it relates to our game model, and tactical periodization. This process has dramatically increased our wins, decreased the number of injuries, and improved our student-athletes KPIs."
Auburn Weisensale
Assistant AD for Performance Nutrition
"Pitt Sports Science allows the sports nutrition staff to make dynamic connections between nutrition data and sport-specific training and performance data. These connections enhance the ability to assess data at the team level, as well as position-specific and individual levels. Through collaborative effort we are able to provide optimal individualized and specific nutrition education and recommendations for our student athletes."
Dr. Brad Nindl
Director, Neuromuscular Research Laboratory/Warrior Human Performance Research Center School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
"Our partnership with the Department of Athletics is proving to be a game changer at leveraging the application of sport science in human performance optimization for Pitt student athletes. The Pitt strength coaches, dietitians, athletic training staff and performance team are some of the most innovative in their fields. This group is uniformly committed to transforming elite athletic potential and developing champions for Pitt Athletics."
Dr. Evan Facher
Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Director of the Innovation Institute
"Pitt remains the only Power 5 university to also rank in the top 5 for National Institute of Health Funding. These unique credentials and close collaboration between Athletics, Researchers and Clinicians across campus, allow Pitt to explore performance innovation like no other university. In this way, Pitt Athletics is benefiting from cutting edge technology, uncovering new ideas impacting coaches and student athletes and actively re-writing the book on performance innovation."
Katelyn F. Allison, PhD, ACSM EP-C
Interim Director, MS in Sports Science Program
“The collaboration between Pitt Sports Science and the School of Health and Rehabilitation Science has provided our Sports Science (MS) students unparalleled experience working with industry experts and cutting-edge technology. Our students are able to make an immediate impact on optimizing performance of Pitt athletes through developing innovative ideas and learning from a high-performance team across a variety of disciplines, allowing them to acquire the experience and expertise needed as professionals in this field.”
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3719 Terrace Street
3060 - The William Randolph Hearst Life Skills Resource Suite
Pittsburgh, PA 15261