• Question: what made you become a sports scientist?

    Asked by boomboompow to Pete, Rebecca, SallyB, Sally, Sian on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by yourworstnightmare, meg97, legtheend.
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      Sian Lawson answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      I just followed my interests and they sort of converged on this. I like the variety too, some of my projects are sports, some medical, some are more fundamental, which keeps it interesting.

      Good username by the way.

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      Sally Barber answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      I just really loved doing experiments and finding out how the body works. I think it’s amazing how the body can often heal itself and how we can take charge of our health though choosing a healthy lifestyle. So when I finished university I decided to carry on with studying and do a PhD. After that I still loved sport and exercise science so I’m still doing it. I think it’s really important that I am passionate about the career that I have chosen. If I lose passion for sport science I’ll stop doing it and do something else.

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      Sally Fenton answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      I have always been very sporty..I played loads of different sports at school and still play hockey (and netball a bit) now. Because I liked sport so much I decided to take P.E as a GCSE and I loved it! My teachers were really good and their enthusiasm rubbed off on me! I then decided to take P.E and biology (aswell as psychology and geograpy) for A levels because I wanted to keep learning about it. I found it so interesting to learn about how the body responds to exercise and what can be done psychologically to make athletes perform to their full potential.

      At this point I decided I wanted to be a P.E teacher so I went to Birmingham University to do a sport and exercise science degree…whilst I was there I realised it wasn’t teaching I wanted to do it was science research…I found it really exciting to be able to carry out your own experiments and find out interesting things from it. From there I applied to do what I am doing now and got the job!

      So really what made me become a sport scientist was my love of sport and my interest in the human mind and body and how it responds to exercise!

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      Peter Styring answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      An excuse to get in more skiing. Plus my youngest daughter is a British Champion in Moguls skiing so what I do could also help her.

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      Rebecca Randell answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I did my degree in Sports and Exercise Science and in my final year of my degree i realised how much i loved sports science and I wanted to add to the research that was around in this area. I have always had a big interest in sports nutrition so I wanted to work in that area.

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