Expertise

Academic Areas:

  • Fitness, Conditioning and Performance
  • Kinesiology
  • Physical Activity and Health

Gretchen Oliver, Ph.d., has a primary research focus on injury prevention and performance enhancement. She is particularly interested in youth overhead throwing, baseball pitching, and softball pitching.

Gretchen Oliver’s primary research focus is on injury prevention and performance enhancement.

She has a special interest in the area of fatigue in extended performances in baseball and softball pitching and throwing.

Gretchen Oliver’s research focuses on injury prevention in youth, collegiate, and professional athletes, and provides strengthening, stretching, and performance feedback to participants who may be at increased risk of injury.

Past Affiliations
Communities
Physical Education, Allied Health
Degrees
PhD, Texas Woman's University, Kinesiology, Education, 2003
MS, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Education, Kinesiology, 1999
BS, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Education, Kinesiology, 1996