Experts: Sports

Baghurst is a professor in the College of Education and director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Athletic Coaching (FSU COACH). He is an expert in coaching education, coach development, ethics in sport, and international athletes and international sports.

Buning is an expert on sport coaching, athlete experiences, and mental performance and sport psychology for coaches, athletes and game officials. She is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC), is listed in the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Mental Performance Directory, is a trained Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement instructor, and is accredited to issue the DISC Profile and Test of Attentional and Interpersonal Styles (TAIS) assessments.

Dr. Brady DeCouto’s research background concerns expert performance, with a particular emphasis on the cognitive mechanisms involved in skill acquisition and expert performance (e.g., attention, information processing, emotion). Given the acceleration of ubiquitous assistive technologies such as artificial intelligence, wearable sensors, and exoskeletons, Brady’s current research interests are focused on how the constraints and characteristics of human cognition, psychology, and motor control impact our compatibility with such technological tools, and how technological tools can best facilitate human learning (i.e., human-machine teaming).