Former Football and Track & Field:Symposium to address athletic performance – Soignier & Schexnayder

Former Football and Track & Field:Symposium to address athletic performance – Soignier & Schexnayder

Former Football and Track & Field:Symposium to address athletic performance – Soignier & Schexnayder

Brian Soignier will admit he doesn’t have all the answers, but he’s willing to look at things from a different angle.

 

The former UL Ragin’ Cajun football player and track and field multi-event athlete will join others in exploring new answers at the Optimizing Performance Training Symposium on Jan. 15 at UL’s Bourgeois Hall.

The goal is to encourage optimal training that combines injury prevention as well as training and conditioning into an integrated performance-enhancing program."We’d like to touch on as wide a range as we can — anybody who works with kids and wants to try and improve their performance," Soignier said. "We’ll combine theory with application of what the human body needs to function at its best and most efficient."

The symposium will be held from 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m., offering presentations by experts and roundtable discussions.Soignier, a local physical therapist, will speak on "Movement and Applied Functional Science." Steve Young, a former South Dakota football player, will focus on "Function Meets Performance."

The third presenter is Boo Schexnayder, a consultant and former track and field coach at UL and LSU, who will present "Gross Metabolic and Neural Training Design" and "Endocrine Stimulation and Restorative Training.""When an athlete gets hurt, we want to get them back (into action) as soon as possible," Soignier said. "We (as physical therapists) don’t want to see them again."There are going to be times when a football player goes over the middle for a pass and gets hit in a bad position and gets hurt, but we’d like to address the non-contact injuries, (as when) a girls soccer player is running, turns her head and tears her anterior cruciate ligament."We want to decrease the risk of injury to the athlete, injuries that come from overuse, the non-traumatic injuries. At the same time, we want them to get the most out of their performance."

Soignier said he is expecting between 80 and 85 to attend, but would welcome a "standing room only" crowd.

Athletic Network Footnote: Athletic Network profiles for both Brian and Boo are posted on www.athleticnetwork.net

Want to go?

The Optimizing Performance Training Symposium will be held from 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 15, at Room 153-B of UL’s Bourgeois Hall, 225 Cajundome Blvd. Cost is $75 preregistered, $90 at the door, $200 for team staff (4 or more). Online registration is available at www.sacspeed.com.