Rate My Professor Cloe Cummins

Dr. Cloe Cummins serves as a Lecturer in Exercise and Sports Science in the School of Science and Technology at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Exercise and Sports Science and a PhD. Cummins completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of New England, where she advanced research in sports science. She has acted as Unit Coordinator for EXSC390 Practicum with Clinical Populations in 2023 trimesters. Her career includes prior employment with a micro-technology manufacturer, contributing practical expertise to her academic role.

Cummins' research interests center on exercise physiology and sports performance analysis, particularly in rugby league, utilizing GPS micro-technology to quantify player demands, velocity profiles, collision loads, and injury risks. Her work addresses match-play energetics, positional differences in external loads, automated tackle detection, and running direction prediction from inertial sensors. She has collaborated with the National Rugby League, Leeds Beckett University, and other institutions on studies involving professional and amateur athletes, including women's rugby league participation frameworks. Key publications include 'Modelling the relationships between volume, intensity and injury-risk in professional rugby league players' (2019, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport), 'Quantifying the Collision Dose in Rugby League Match-Play' (2020, Sports Medicine - Open), 'Call to action: a collaborative framework to better support female rugby league participation in Australia' (2020, British Journal of Sports Medicine), 'Importance, Reliability, and Usefulness of Acceleration Metrics to Quantify Movement Demands During Clinical Gait Assessment' (2018, cited over 200 times), 'Women's Rugby League: Positional Groups and Peak Running Demands' (2021, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living), 'How fast is fast? Defining velocity zones in women's rugby league' (2023, International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport), and 'A prospective analysis of over 14000 tackle events' (2023, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport). With 57 publications, over 1,673 citations, and an h-index of 19, her research significantly influences training optimization, player welfare, and technology application in collision sports.