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The School of Kinesiology welcomes Diane Wiese-Bjornstal as the interim director.

Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology, won the University of Minnesota's Unit Service Award. This award recognizes the excellence of internal service to the School of Kinesiology and U of M.

Bridget Sturch, PhD student in the School of Kinesiology, along with her adviser and co-author, Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, PhD, professor and associate director in the School of Kinesiology, presented a virtual lecture at the Association for Applied Sport Psychology Annual Meeting.

Bridget Sturch, PhD student in the School of Kinesiology, along with her adviser and co-author, Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, PhD, professor and associate director in the School of Kinesiology, presented a virtual lecture at the Association for Applied Sport Psychology Annual Meeting.

Professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Sports Medicine Psychology Lab (SMPL), Diane Wiese-Bjornstal's, PhD, blog, titled "Injured? try this," and podcast, titled, "052 | Faith and Coping with Injury," was published on September 22, 2021, in Sport. Faith. Life

Members of the School of Kinesiology’s Sports Medicine Psychology Lab (SMPL), recently published as co-authors in the November issue of the Soccer Journal. The article highlighted a collaborative project with the UMN Department of Horticulture that examined the impact of turf grass properties on performance, injuries, and perceptions of players on the University of Minnesota Women's Club Soccer team.

Members of the School of Kinesiology’s Sports Medicine Psychology Laboratory (SMPL), presented a collaborative project with the UMN Department of Horticulture at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. The presentation showcased the analysis and methodological considerations regarding associations between GPS motion data and self-reported psychological reflections among athletes on the UMN Women's Club Soccer team.

Sarah Espinoza, PhD candidate in sport and exercise psychology (Adviser: Professor Diane Wiese-Bjornstal) within the School of Kinesiology, has been appointed as a Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Fellowship Training program at the University of Minnesota’s Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics. The overall purpose of this interdisciplinary research training program in […]

Ethan Wolf, School of Kinesiology MS in sport and exercise psychology student, and member of the Sport Medicine Psychology Laboratory (SMPL), recently received a 2020 Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) Student Conference Abstract Grant for his project, “Relationships between pre-match sleep, in-match running metrics, and post-match wellness perceptions among women’s collegiate club soccer midfielders.” […]

Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, PhD, professor and associate director of the School of Kinesiology, published a book chapter titled “Sport injury psychology,” in the book “Psychological Bases of Sport Injuries,” edited by Andreas Ivarsson and Urban Johnson and published by Fitness Information Technology.  Wise-Bjornstal also directs the Sports Medicine Psychology Laboratory (SMPL).

Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, PhD, professor and associate director of the School of Kinesiology, and director of the Sports Medicine Psychology Laboratory (SMPL), published the article, “Exploring religiosity and spirituality in coping with sport injuries,” in the Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology. Co-authors of the publication include kinesiology doctoral student Kristin Wood, Andrew White, PhD, undergraduate kinesiology alumnae Amanda […]

Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, PhD, professor and associate director of the School of Kinesiology, and director of the Sports Medicine Psychology Laboratory (SMPL), and Francesca Principe, MS alumnae and researcher in SMPL, co-authored a publication, “Within-field variability of turfgrass surface properties and athlete performance: Modeling their relationship using GPS and GIS technologies.” The study analyzes surface properties of turfgrass […]

Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, PhD, professor and associate director of the School of Kinesiology, and director of the Sports Medicine Psychology Laboratory (SMPL), published a paper, “The Integrated Model of Religiosity and Psychological Response to the Sport Injury and Rehabilitation Process: A Christian Illustration,” in the November 2019 edition of the Canadian Journal for Scholarship and the Christian Faith. […]

Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Sports Medicine Psychology Lab (SMPL), presented two conference papers at the Second Congress on Sport and Christianity, held October 23-27, 2019 at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, MI. The conference gathers sport administrators, coaches, athletes, pastors and theologians to explore the impact of belief […]

Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Sports Medicine Psychology Lab (SMPL), recently presented an invited talk at the 89th Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Kinesiology, held from September 12-14, 2019 in Bellevue, WA. The presentation, “Back to the drawing board: Diagramming integrative conceptual models of psychological response to […]

Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Sports Medicine Psychology Lab (SMPL), presented two papers at the 15th European Congress of Sport and Exercise Psychology held in Münster, Germany from July 15 – 20, 2019. With over 1,000 participants, the FEPSAC Congress was one of the largest international sport psychology […]

Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, PhD, associate director and professor at the School of Kinesiology published a chapter in the newly published book, Sport, Psychology and Christianity: Welfare, Performance and Consultancy, 1st Edition. Her chapter is titled “Christian Beliefs and Behaviours as Health Protective, Resilience and Intervention Factors in the Context of Sport Injuries.” This book considers the […]

The School of Kinesiology’s associate director and professor Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, PhD, director and professor Beth Lewis, PhD, and research associate Katie Schuver, PhD, published chapters in the two volume set of the APA Handbook of Sport and Exercise Psychology. Wiese-Bjornstal published a chapter in Volume 1: Sport Psychology titled “Psychological Predictors and Consequences of Injuries […]

Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., associate director and professor in the School of Kinesiology, and Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D., senior lecturer in the School of Kinesiology, participated in the Ice Hockey Summit III and co-authored an article with Dr. Aynsley Smith, (lead author), a Ph.D. alum and former affiliated School of Kinesiology graduate faculty member, now associate […]

Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Sports Medicine Psychology Lab, has been published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology: Sport Psychology. Her chapter, “Sociocultural Aspects of Sport Injury and Recovery,” discusses the sociocultural influences that affect sport injury outcomes via interrelated sport systems extending from the intrasystem (i.e., […]