School and Alumni News
Despite season-ending injuries, Glover excelled on court, in classroom
11/12/25
Despite suffering two season-ending knee injuries, Texas Woman's basketball player Kayla Glover showed mental fortitude and discipline in returning to the court and graduating in three years with her undergraduate degree. Her personal experience with injury inspired her goal of becoming an orthopedic surgeon, and she is working on her master's degree in sport management.
After groundbreaking research on walking, her next step was leadership
10/9/25
Catrine Tudor-Locke, a renowned walking behavior researcher, transitioned to administration after achieving significant success as an academic. Now as the dean of TWU's College of Health Sciences she looks forward to this new chapter in her career, hoping it will be her most rewarding yet.
Kinesiology team earns second place in NASA-sponsored design challenge
4/22/25
A team of Texas Woman’s kinesiology students researched, designed, fabricated and tested an wearable exercise device that could potentially transform astronauts’ workouts in space flight and took second place overall at a NASA-sponsored statewide design competition.
TWU kinesiology prof helps golfers master their swing
4/4/25
Over the last 16 years, Young-Hoo Kwon, a professor of kinesiology and director of the Biomechanics and Motor Behavior Lab in the School of Health Promotion & Kinesiology at Texas Woman’s, has become one of the world’s leading researchers in golf biomechanics. Through years of capturing data of golf swings with innovative 3D technology and then analyzing it with software that he created when he was a PhD student, Kwon has produced research that filled a gap in the science of golf.
Kinesiology team earns fifth win in NASA-sponsored design challenge
11/15/24
When it comes to space flight challenges, Texas Woman’s kinesiology students always seem to have the best solutions. For the fifth time in the last seven years, a team of Texas Woman’s undergraduate kinesiology students took the top overall prize at a NASA-sponsored statewide design competition.