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Texas Tech University, Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management, Sports Performance Lab (YSPL), Directed by Dr. Yasuki Sekiguchi, Optimizing Heat Response & Hydration, Athlete Training & Recovery Monitoring

08/31/2026

This is the Sports Performance Lab 2026-2027 Academic Year Team!! 🙌😊👏

Director Dr. Sekiguchi
Three PhD researchers
Two Master researchers
Seven Undergraduate researchers

For graduate students, we are welcoming a new PhD student, Mark Tutton, and a new master student Riley Parrish to our team this year!!🤩 For undergraduate students, we are adding three new researchers!!👍

Great team and we are excited for what we can do this year!!! 👆⚫️🔴 Let’s having fun!! 😉

07/12/2026

Representing our lab presenting the research at NSCA National Conference!! 🤩

Great job, ALEX BROJANAC

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07/07/2026

The first season that we worked with the entire Texas Tech Track and Field Team very closely throughout the season was amazing 🤩 Four Big 12 Team Championships and several individual national champions!! 🏆

Great interdisciplinary team with coaches, athletic trainers, strength and conditioning coaches, medical doctors, nutritionists and us as the sports science team!!! Always having great discussions about how to apply evidence to practice with them!! 😉

Excited for next season too!! 👏⚫️🔴👆

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06/17/2026

We have trained and tested a Professional Middle Distance Runner, Moad Zahafi sponsored by adidas, who is competing internationally (e.g. World Athletics Championship, Diamond League) and a former NCAA champion, for the past two months in our lab!! 🤝🤩👍

We integrated heat training as part of his regular training and saw a lot of improvements in performance and fitness as well as thermoregulatory outcomes!!!👏👏👏

Integrating heat training into athlete’s regular training is getting more and more popular and his cutting-edge approach is noteworthy!! 😉

Good luck for the season!! 👆🔴⚫️

🏆 Prepare for Every Environment!!

06/10/2026

Very excited to publish our new publication to MSSE!! 🙌 Looking at how dehydration impacts neuromuscular performance🤩 Timely for about starting soccer World Cup 😉

✅Dehydration decreases muscle size even before exercise!!
✅Dehydration decreases early RTDs (30-100), but not RTD 200 and Peak Torques!!
✅Dehydration decreases landing mechanics, which is associated with greater injury risks!!

Thank you to and to fund this study!!

Prepared for every environment ⚫️🔴👆

06/01/2026

Great success at ACSM in Salt Lake City last week!! 🤩

✅ Dr. Sekiguchi moderated a Hydrayion and Heat Stress thematic poster session!! ☺️
✅ 5 Poster presentations!! 👍
✅ Alex acknowledged her Gatorade Sports Science Institute Sports Science Award!! 👏
✅ Great to catch up friends and colleagues and make new connections!! 😉

Additionally, Dr. Sekiguchi was named as a new Fellow of ACSM at the reception!! 👍 Thank you for the help and support to him for this milestone!! 🤝

Such a fun conference 🔴⚫️👆

05/16/2026

Dr. Sekiguchi’s first (two) PhD students graduated this week!!! 🤩 Huge congrats to Dr. Marcos Keefe and Dr. Ryan Dunn for this achievement!!! 👏

So grateful for both of them coming to Sports Performance Lab for their PhD journey and building and expanding the lab together!!! 😉 Without them, our lab would not be the same as today for sure 👍

Good luck for the next step as a tenure-track assistant professor (Marcos) and a postdoc at world-class lab (Ryan)!!! Most importantly, they are going to places where they can do what they want to do as next steps!! 🙌

We also celebrated another huge milestone for our master student, Alex, to complete her MS!!! ☺️ Her contribution and commitment to our lab was significant to perform all projects!!! She is going to be a PhD fellow at a very competitive athletic program next, and we are very happy for her future!!! 🤝

Congrats to all and enjoy your special moments!!! 👆🔴⚫️

05/07/2026

Congrats to our master student, Tyler, to be awarded for the Graduate Student Research Grant from National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)!!! 🤩

We will be looking at the effect of body heating and muscle temperature on neuromuscular performance in various environmental conditions!!! 👍

Looking forward to this study and potentially using as the way to increase performance and prevent injury!! 😉 🔴⚫️👆

04/27/2026

This past February, Dr. Sekiguchi was officially approved for his tenure and is becoming the Associate Professor!! 🤩

Thank you so much to students, colleagues, mentors, friends, and the Department and University for all of your help on his tourney to achieve this milestone!! 👍

Let’s keep it up!! 👆⚫️🔴

04/17/2026

Our new publication!!! ✅✅✅

Oral rehydration during exercise induced better thermoregulatory and performance outcomes compared to IV infusion!! 💧💧☀️☀️

We know IV is not a realistic rehydration method during exercise, but we wanted to see if drinking itself would provide benefits and it looks like it does!!! 🤩 While this study is not perfect and more mechanistic studies are required, thirst sensation and/or oropharyngeal reflex might be potentially linked to physiological and performance responses!!! 😉

Stay hydrated!! 🤩👍

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Address

3204 Main Street
Lubbock, TX

Telephone

+18068340633

Website

https://www.yspl.org/

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