The Shamrock Series is finally here! This weekend, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame take on the Wisconsin Badgers at the historic Lambeau Field in Green Bay.

As part of the weekend activities, the University of Notre Dame Sports Biomechanics Research Group will be presenting "The Importance of Biomechanics in Sports, featuring the Milwaukee Brewers" in the Rockwood Terrace on Saturday, September 5, 2026 from 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Central Time). The event is open to the public. More details about weekend activities can be found at the following website:

Shamrock Series Events

I am looking forward to sharing the work my students have been doing these past couple of years including a live demonstration using our Xsens Health & Sports Awinda system and hosting a Q&A panel featuring current undergraduate research students Mia Lowry, Clare McLellan, Kristina Melegari, and Cecilia Pino along with research personnel from the Milwaukee Brewers: Liam Martin and Arya Mevada.

If you're going to be in the area for the football game, come check it out!

GO IRISH!!! BEAT BADGERS!!!!!!!!

As part of our group's holiday study break this past weekend, students did some casual construction projects. And honestly, they turned out great! Sean Burke and Evan Kuster put together the castle (with accompanying candy dragon on top). Delaney Burnett and Rylan Sachs constructed the cozy cottage with the lovely backyard.

Here's hoping final exams turn out as well as these fun gingerbread houses!

This logo won a close competition between other student-generated logos.  We will proudly display this image on the website, through news stories, on posters and podium presentations, and on various articles of clothing for group members and their supporters to wear.

Look for us around campus and at conferences!

Thanks to the generosity of alumni benefactors, the Sports Biomechanics Research Group just received their very own Xsens Awinda motion capture suit!!! All past data acquisition has used Dr. Goehler's suit courtesy of a loan from his consulting company, Human Movement Consulting.

With their own system, students will learn all aspects of system set-up, calibration, data acquisition, and processing. And most importantly, they can conduct data acquisition sessions whenever they are free without having to work around Dr. Goehler's schedule. This will open up loads of opportunities for both research students and future subjects.

We can't wait to see where this takes the group!!!!

The University of Notre Dame Sports Biomechanics Research Group is celebrating 50 years of Notre Dame women's varsity athletics by continuing our swing study with ND Softball! It has been a real pleasure getting to know these amazing young women and to be able to give something back to Our Lady's athletes through this work.

We've completed a draft of our first paper on examining the kinetic chain of the swing using last year's data and we should be able to get that out for publication and share those results "soon"...ish....

Special thanks to Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation for allowing us to use the batting cages at Penn High School. And thanks to Beth and David Zachary for their hospitality and enthusiasm supporting this work!

And lastly, a big thanks to Xsens Health & Sports | Movella because without your Awinda system we wouldn't be able to take the lab into the field for all of these different projects.

The first official year of the Sports Biomechanics Research Group is in the book! And what better way to celebrate than with the 2025 College of Science Joint Annual Meeting poster presentations!!!

Really proud of the work all of my undergraduate research students have done this past year. And Katherine Kappaz, Delaney Burnett, Evan Kuster, Rylan Sachs, and Phoebe (Chien Chien) Huang did an amazing job presenting their work and answering questions yesterday.

Stay tuned for the launch of our website this summer where we will be posting details on our projects as well as making our de-identified data and analytical tools freely available for download.