Dr Tania Spiteri

BSc, PhD

Tania.Spiteri@nd.edu.au

• Biography

  Tania is a lecturer in the School of Health Sciences. She completed both her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at ECU. Her research focuses around athlete monitoring and investigating performance based differences in change of direction, agility, decision-making, strength, power and neuromuscular strategies between genders and level of expertise in various high performance sports. To this end, her studies involve collaborations with universities, sporting organisations and high performance institutes across Australia, the United States and England including the National Football League, National Basketball League, Major League Baseball, Purdue University, Louisville University, the English Institute of Sport and the West Australian Institute of Sport.
  
  Tania has co-authored over 40 research articles as well as presenting her research at multiple National and International conferences and was recently awarded the Young Investigator of the Year Award by the National Strength and Conditioning Association in the United States. In addition, she is involved in a range of sport science research projects within the School supervising a total of nine honours, masters and PhD students.
  
  Tania is a certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with the National Strength and Conditioning Association (USA), a Level 2 Strength and Conditioning Coach with the Australian Strength and Conditioning Association, and a member of Exercise and Sport Science Australia, the Australian New Zealand Society of Biomechanics, and the Australasian Skill Acquisition Research Group, and sits on a Women is Strength and Conditioning Committee Group.