Sports Science Master’s Student Interns at INTER MIAMI CF
Sigourney Kame at the INTER MIAMI FC Training facility.
Sigourney Kame, who is a sports science master’s student of the Department of Health and Human Performance (HHP) in the Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences, recently completed a valuable internship as a sports performance coach at INTER MIAMI CF, which is a Major League Soccer (MLS) professional soccer team located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This opportunity was facilitated by Tobin Silver, Ph.D., internship coordinator, professor of Health and Human Performance program.
Sigourney Kame with David Beckam, co-owner of INTER MIAMI FC.
Sigourney’s primary role as a sports performance intern consisted of leading the activation exercises before the team’s practice, perform the team’s dynamic warm-up and cooldown, assist the head coach with the sport-specific on-field warm-up and lead the team’s upper-body, lower-body, and full-body strength training. She was also responsible for tracking the GPS–STAT-Sports of the players and create a report displaying various sports science data such as the running speeds, metabolic loads, accelerations, decelerations, and distance traveled.
Sigourney had an amazing experience at INTER MIAMI FC and learned a lot from the sports performance coaches and was able to use here scientific knowledge in a practical manner. She was also very privileged to meet one of the team owners, David Beckam. She said, “It was a true honor to have met David Beckam and have a brief conversation with him. He treats everyone with the utmost respect and kindness and is an amazing professional I definitely look up to.”
Sigourney, who started her master’s here at Nova Southeastern University within the sport science department in Fall 2021 is set to graduate this Fall 2022 semester with her Master of Science in Sports Science degree and is super excited to what the future holds.
She further said, “My experience within the Sports Science department was fantastic. The sports science department consists of very knowledgeable professors who are all active and respected within the Sports Science field, always open to guide students with any career advice needed and help open doors for them. The faculty who prepared me for this opportunity include Dr. Corey Peacock, Dr. Tobin Silver, Dr. Monique Mokha, Dr. Jose Antonio and Dr. Anthony Ricci. They were very influential to my personal and professional growth.”
Posted 10/23/22