Senior Theses
Every Carthage student is required to submit a senior thesis or capstone project to demonstrate their mastery of their chosen area of study. Here are some projects by exercise and sport science students.
- “Identifying risk factors associated with burnout in college athletes”
- “Educational programming for families of persons living with rare diseases”
- “The effects of a combined yoga and meditation session on self-reported physical and mental quality of life”
- “Acute effects of upper body strength training on 3-point shooting performance”
- “Changes in sprint performance during a preseason training period”
- “Postactivation potentiation in NCAA Division III football players”
- “Annual changes in sprint performance in NCAA Division III track and field”
- “Annual changes in vertical jump performance in NCAA Division III women’s volleyball players”
- “Relationships between strength among Division III football players”
- “Elevation training mask and endurance”
- “Strength differences from 2015 to 2017 Football”
- “Stress among yoga and HIIT participants”
- “The comparison of weekly volume load, position, body weight and 1 repetition maximums in Division III football players”
- “Does power balance wristband improve flexibility and sprint performance?”
- “Strength training effect on vertical jump and isometric pull in collegiate Division III football players”
- “Effects of stress on swimmings taper and performance among Division III swimmers”
- “Comparison between body measurements and event for track and field”
- “Exercise and its effect on perceived stress levels on college students”
- “The effects of caffeine and pre-workout on athletic performance amongst Division III college football players”
- “The relationship between sprint performance and anthropometrics in Division III collegiate track athletes”
- “Athlete’s Edge: a vision training study”
- “An exploration of time and day on muscular endurance and vertical jump height”
- “Accuracy of equations on predicting power based upon weight and jump height”
- “Effects of short-term high-intensity interval training on pre- and post-body fat percentage and lean mass”
- “The effectiveness of summer soccer camp training in increasing speed in young players”
- “Burnout in female athletes”
- “Which major football lift correlates most with sprint speed?”
- “The effects of pre-workout on basketball down and back sprints”
- “The relationship between power and dynamic warm-up”
- “Whole body vibrations impact on maximal countermovement jump height”
- “Bilateral strength asymmetry following femoroacetabular impingement injury of a collegiate football player”
- “The relationship between spring and vertical jump performance”
- “Bilateral strength asymmetry changes following ACL injury”
- “The impact of rest periods on repeated sprint performance”
- “How does repeated sprint ability correlate with fatigue?”
- “Physical therapy improves auality of life”
- “Impact of spring break on a strength endurance phase of resistance training among Division III women’s soccer players”
- “Relationship between lean body mass and performance variables in NCAA Division III football players”
- “A collection of statistical models used to analyze if people’s exercise category level affects their stress levels in college”