Southeast ACSM

This past Thursday, Dr. Hale and myself traveled to Greenville, S.C., for the annual meeting of the Southeast Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine. This three day conference involved meetings and research presentations by faculty and students from across the southeast. I did an oral presentation Friday morning on lateral ankle sprains, and Dr. Hale had a couple of graduate students making presentations. Generally, ACSM is composed more of exercise physiologists than biomechanists, which was never more evident than at the student quiz bowl when they decided to skip the Anatomy category (this was not a popular move with the non exercise physiologists). However, the president of SEACSM, Dr. Grandjean, made a concerted effort to have more biomechanics presentations and tutorials at this year's meeting, and hopefully this trend will continue in the future. Regional conferences are generally more laid back than national conferences, and it is easier to network and discuss research and teaching with other professionals. As you can tell in the picture, we got about 3-4" of snow Friday evening, which was nice for me because we don't get a lot of snow in Mississippi. We plan on returning to the conference next year with a greater number of our students. We want to make Mississippi State a force at this regional meeting.