Date of Completion
2025
Document Type
Honors College Thesis
Department
Mathematics and Statistics
Thesis Type
Honors College, College of Arts and Science Honors
First Advisor
Abigail Crocker
Keywords
athletics, female, statistics, coding, weight, sports
Abstract
This project draws upon a data set produced by over one thousand jumps by UVM women’s field hockey players jumping for the Hawkin Dynamics force plate countermovement jump (FPCMJ) test. The FPCMJ test is a fitness assessment that measures many jumping characteristics, which can indicate left, right, and net leg strength. Since field hockey sticks are right-handed only, we hypothesize that there is an association between right-stick dominance and left-sided strength dominance. This project aims to describe leg strength asymmetry in UVM D1 field hockey players and identify associated characteristics, using multiple regression analyses in R.
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Recommended Citation
Stockwell, Katherine, "UVM Field Hockey Force Plate Jump Analysis" (2025). UVM Patrick Leahy Honors College Senior Theses. 758.
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/hcoltheses/758