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NEWS & UPDATES 2014 NATIONAL CONFERENCE STUDENT ABSTRACT AWARD WINNERS The NSCA would like to thank and congratulate the following student research abstract award winners for their presentations at the 2014 NSCA National Conference: DOCTORAL STUDENT OUTSTANDING PODIUM PRESENTATION John McMahon University of Salford Relationships Between Medial Gastrocnemius Tendon Stiffness and Lower Limb Stiffness During Unilateral Hopping DOCTORAL STUDENT OUTSTANDING POSTER PRESENTATION Haley Bergstrom University of Nebraska-Lincoln Sustainability, Physiological, and Perceptual Responses at the Critical Heart Rate During Treadmill Running MASTER’S STUDENT OUTSTANDING PODIUM PRESENTATION David Looney University of Connecticut Does Fatiguing Light Resistance Exercise Maximize Motor Unit Activity? MASTER’S STUDENT OUTSTANDING POSTER PRESENTATION Adam Sterczala University of Connecticut The Effect of Acute Heavy Resistance Exercise on Neutrophils and Myeloperoxidase UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT OUTSTANDING POSTER PRESENTATION If you missed any of the poster abstract presentations at the National Conference, you can view them online in the new electronic poster gallery that can be found at http://www.eventscribe.com/2014/ posters/nsca/ListView.asp. Abstract submissions for the 2015 NSCA National Conference will open November 3, 2014. More information will be posted in a future issue of the Bulletin. 2014 NSCAF SCHOLARSHIP AND GRANT AWARD WINNERS 2014 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS Garrett Hester Oklahoma State University Justin Roethlingshoefer University of Louisville John Cvengros University of Toledo Andy Khamoui Florida State University Joseph Rosenburg University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP Luke Pryor University of Connecticut Shawn Flanagan University of Connecticut Adam Cady Duke University Eric Sobolewski University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Adam Wells University of Central Florida Ryan Colquhoun University of South Florida Robert Morton McMaster University Phillip Worts Florida State University Eric Trexler University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Michael Macellari Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine Justin Nicoll University of Rhode Island Jacob Mota Texas Tech University Samuel Buckner University of Nebraska-Lincoln Barbell Deadlift Training Increases the Rate of Torque Development and Vertical Jump Performance in Novices Adam Jatner University of Central Florida 6 Tyler Farney Louisiana State University NSCA BULLETIN | ISSUE 36.08 Ciaran Fairman Georgia Southern University WOMEN’S SCHOLARSHIP Kristen Cochrane University of Nebraska-Lincoln Tori Beaudette California State University-Fullerton Michelle Boland Springfield College Jenny Conlon Edith Cowan University, Western Australia Patricia Dietz University of Kansas Kendra Olinghouse Texas Tech University Lina Loundgren Edith Cowan University Katie McLelend California State University-Fullerton Hailee Wingfield University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill