UNCG Students helping athlete

Our School Trains the Teams Behind the Sports Teams

Career fields in sports and health sciences are growing to serve athletes of all ages, from children on recreational teams to collegiate and professional athletes. Building those workforces in our state is the mission of UNCG’s School of Health and Human Sciences (HHS). 

Lexi Kier was recently selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Scholar. She is a doctoral student in public health education with a focus on athlete well-being. She became interested in the topic following an injury she experienced as a high school basketball player.

Doctoral Student Looks to Impact Public Health Policy, Mental Health

For Lexi Kier, sport has always been more than competition — it’s an intersection of joy and loss, community and pressure, and resilience and vulnerability. As a doctoral student in public health education at UNC Greensboro, she is building a research agenda that challenges how institutions understand athletes, particularly Black athletes.

Susanna Barton Graduation

Gerontology Alumna has Grand Plans 

Everyone ages, but not everyone prepares for it. UNCG alumna Susanna Barton helps caregivers, as well as those who are entering that stage of life.