During my senior year at Longwood University, I will get the opportunity to take part in a Senior Honors Thesis Research Project with my peer mentor, Dr. Jimenez.
The Effect of Burnout and Overtraining on Women’s College Soccer Athletes
During my research, I will be diving in a looking at the concepts of Burnout and Overtraining on the Longwood Women’s Soccer team. As being a part of the athletic and sports world my whole life, I am very passionate about everything that goes into it. Even more uniquely, I am currently on the Longwood Women’s soccer team, and first hand get to experience the long hours, hard trainings, and stressful life that a collegiate athlete lives. Therefore, I would not only use the information gained from this research to further my knowledge going into my future career in the athletic entity, but also get to use and implement strategies within the current team now. In addition, being a part of this research experience will allow me to widen my horizon in my education, and get to experience the core of what research is, and how it works, as well as learning many different aspects along the way.
Here is a little background of what I am going to be doing, and once I have completed it, I will further this reflection and state what I have learned:
Upon receiving IRB approval, recruitment of athlete participants will take place during the first day of women’s soccer PRE-season, where consent forms will be signed and collected. During this time, a baseline data will be collected as well. Baseline data will include collecting athletes resting HR. From here, once a week, for the rest of the fall 2022 PRE-season and season, an electronic google questionnaire will be taken during the last few minutes of the last team event of that week (games, practices, etc.). On top of the questionnaire, every week, exercise volume will be collected and calculated. Alongside, once every two weeks, with the questionnaire for that week, the Heart Rate Variability of the athlete will be measured, by re-collecting each athlete’s resting HR over a 3 minute period, before activity begins on the last day of activity for that given week. Data collection will cease once women’s soccer season is done, which is typically the middle of November. This will leave the total data collection to span over approximately 15 weeks. After the last game, a final measure will be collected for the questionnaire and HRV. Also, at the end of the season, team performance will be calculated and tracked through the win-loss record.
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