Pursing a passion for concussion research

 

“My high school’s certified athletic trainer had a large impact on my love for athletic training and concussions. She showed me what a passionate athletic trainer looked like and that women can be successful in male-dominated fields.”

After helping the athletic trainer during one of her high school’s football games, Destinee Grove ’17 recognized the amount of head impacts that players were taking and how that might affect their behavior—linking the psychology and sports medicine fields. She’s been hooked on the subject ever since.

Now, Grove—an undergraduate researcher in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, majoring in exercise and sport science and psychology—studies a collection of concussion measures like cognitive function, eye movement and posture ability for athletes. She is a Morehead-Cain Scholar and also a research assistant at the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center.

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