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During FIFA World Cup 2026™ alone, Canada’s Ismael Kone suffered a broken leg in a June 18 match against Qatar, while Germany’s Nico Schlotterbeck experienced an ankle injury while playing against the Ivory Coast on June 20.

According to recent FIFA data, the highest rates of injury occur between minute 60 and minute 75, when Australia’s Mathew Leckie suffered a hamstring injury during a June 19 match against the U.S. Injury is part of the game, but elite soccer players have tools and strategies to manage the sport’s toll on their bodies.

“Soccer players’ bodies are appropriately able to accommodate the stresses in the beginning of the game when all their neuromuscular systems are coordinated,” says Bryant’s Biological and Biomedical Sciences Department Chair and Clinical Associate Professor Jennifer Hurrell, PT, DHSc. “But these things start to decompensate over the course of the game.”

Read more: https://news.bryant.edu/gps-fatigue-monitoring-proprioceptive-training-heres-how-elite-soccer-players-manage-sports

Bryant University’s technical expertise and business intelligence are the perfect mix for helping Navigant Credit Union bring its leadership team up to speed on how artificial intelligence can be applied in the financial world, according to President and CEO Kathleen C. Orovitz ’04.

Orovitz recently joined a group of over 30 Navigant leaders to take part in a day-long AI training led by Bryant Marketing Professor Stefanie Boyer, Ph.D. Boyer, who co-founded an AI platform for training and assessing sales talent, has also co-authored a book on selling with generative AI and teaches — in addition to students — corporate leaders and employees about the technology’s fundamentals, strategies and practical use cases.

Learn more about how Bryant is helping corporate partners level up on AI while staying grounded in human supervision and safe implementation: https://news.bryant.edu/curiosity-capability-bryant-helps-navigant-credit-union-build-responsible-ai-skillshttps://news.bryant.edu/curiosity-capability-bryant-helps-navigant-credit-union-build-responsible-ai-skillshttps://news.bryant.edu/curiosity-capability-bryant-helps-navigant-credit-union-build-responsible-ai-skills