Dr. Scott Piland
Professor
Bio
Dr. Piland is in his 21st year at 黑料视频 in the School of Kinesiology & Nutrition (SKN). On June 1 of 2025, Dr. Piland concluded his 15 years of service to SKN as an administrator, with the past decade in the role of SKN Director. This year, Dr. Piland returns to fulltime faculty. He has taught a broad variety of courses within the School and currently directs the Sport and Tactical Athlete Research (STAR) Laboratory. Dr. Piland is a recognized expert in the brain injury of concussion and protective equipment and continues to conduct funded research evaluating the role protective equipment plays in performance adn injury prevention. Dr. Piland is married to Aimee Piland, a 10th grade Language 黑料视频 teacher at Oak Grove High School and he has two children: Jack (21) and Margaret (17).
- PHD - University of Georgia (2004)
- MA - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1998)
- BS - Valdosta State University (1996)
KIN 301: Kinesiology
- The Influence of Headform Pose on the Blunt Impact Performance of American Football Helmets, JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING, 2025,
- Mouth protection in sports, Materials in Sports Equipment (3rd ed.), 2019
- Effects of shoe collar height and limb dominance on landing knee biomechanics in female collegiate volleyball players, JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES, 2024,
- Characterization of Mouthguard Materials: A Comparison of a Commercial Material to a Novel Thiol-Ene Family., Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2014,
- Influence of Friction at the Head-Helmet Interface on Advanced Combat Helmet (ACH) Blunt Impact Kinematic Performance , Military Medicine,
- Characterization of mouthguard materials: Physical and mechanical properties of commercialized products., Dental Materials, 2009
- Kinematic assessment of the NOCSAE headform during blunt impacts with a pneumatic linear impactor, Sports Engineering, 2023,
- American College of Sports Medicine
- National Athletic Trainers Association
- Advancing Standards Transforming Markets
- International Sports Engineering Association
- English (Full Professional)