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- Brianna Bisesti of Greene, an athletic training major at the University of New England, recently received both the New England chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine Undergraduate Research Experience Grant and the Undergraduate Student Investigator Award. The latter was awarded to Bisesti for her oral research presentation at the NEACSM conference held Nov. 8-9 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence. Her presentation was titled “A Comparison of Knee Moments During a Lateral Cutting Maneuver: Shod Vs. Barefoot” and was completed with the assistance of applied exercise science major Casey Cottle. The study investigated forces at the knee that strain the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) when athletes are wearing shoes and when barefoot. Findings of the study indicate that performing such maneuvers when barefoot places no more strain on the ACL than when wearing shoes. In August, Brianna presented a poster regarding preliminary findings of the study at the American Society of Biomechanics national conference in Miami, Fla. Bisesti, center, is pictured with her research advisers, Lara Carlson, Ph.D., FACSM, and Michael Lawrence, M.S.
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