Having also made the trip to New Orleans for the ACSM meeting this year, I have to once again thank Will Hopkins for his timely and concise review of the athletic performance studies presented at the meeting. As many studies as Hopkins manages to summarize in his reviews, it is scary to think that this category is a relatively small part of the total meeting menu. I have come to enjoy reading his annual post-ACSM summary to see what potentially interesting athletic performance studies I missed (OK, and to check whether something with my name on it got highlighted, or hammered). A few thoughts:

• I have to agree with Will that most of the posters present nothing new, so vigilance is required to spot the novel studies. Not sure what the solution is here. Students need projects and every project cannot be a groundbreaker. But, hopefully we as advisors do encourage creative thinking and filter the totally mundane from the ACSM meeting