The Experts


Professor Emeritus of Physiology

Fran Nagle, Ph.D.
Professor Nagle will discuss the natural drug, adrenaline, its affect on muscles, and its relationship to shooting a free throw.

Professor Nagle received his B.S. in 1951 from the University of Nebraska and completed his Ph.D. in Physiology at Oklahoma University in 1965. He was a faculty member in the Department of Physiology and Physical Education at the University of Wisconsin from 1965 to 1989. His primary research interest is metabolic and cardiovascular adaptations to exercise. He became Emeritus Professor of Physiology in 1995.




Orthopaedic Surgeon

John Rogerson, M.D.
Dr. Rogerson will discuss muscles and joints used in shooting a free throw, including the knee, shoulder, elbow, and wrist.

John Rogerson, M.D., is an orthopaedic surgeon, specializing in the care of problems of the shoulder, elbow, hip, and knee. He holds a B.A., was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth College. He then attended the University of Iowa Medical School, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha.
After a rotating internship at McKenna Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, he completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Wisconsin in 1980. He was board certified in September, 1981 and became a Fellow of the American Academy or Orthopaedic Surgery in February of 1984.

His medical society memberships include the Dane County Medical Society, American Medical Association, Wisconsin Orthopaedic Society, Madison Orthopaedic Society, Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA), and the International Arthroscopy Association.

Active in shoulder arthroscopy, Dr. Rogerson has coordinated several instructional course lectures at the AANA fall and spring meetings and has given numerous talks on subjects like shoulder impingement and the arthroscopic anatomy of the shoulder joint. Dr. Rogerson had been an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Wisconsin and Head of the Residency Teaching Program at Meriter Hospital from 1980 to 1985. He is the former Chief of Orthopaedic Medicine at Meriter Hospital from 1982 to 1984.

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Optometrist

Alan Berman, O.D.
Dr. Berman will discuss what a shooter should be looking at while shooting a free throw.

Alan M. Berman, O.D., is Co-Director of the Institute for Sports Vision in Ridgefield, Connecticut. During the past ten years, Dr. Berman and his staff have worked with a number of major league baseball clubs. He has also worked with the men's and women's pro golf and tennis tours, the Senior Men's Golf Tour, several NBA basketball clubs and Olympic teams, the Joffrey Ballet, and the VISA Gold Medal Program of the U.S. Olympic Committee.

Dr. Berman was a Sports Vision Consultant to the New York Rangers Hockey Club and is presently working with the NBA's New York Knickers. He is a Past President of the International Academy of Sports Vision, was Optometric Editor of the Journal Sports Vision, and was advisory board member of the Sports Vision Quarterly.




Kinesiologist

William Straub, Ph.D.
Dr. Straub will discuss joint kinematics (i.e., actions, sequence of joint actions, planes, and axes of rotation).

Bill Straub, Ph.D., FACSM, is Coordinator of Conferences and Research for the International Sports Training Institute at Life University in Marietta, Georgia. He also teaches an online sport psychology course for Syracuse University. In 1992, after 24 years, he retired from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, where he was Professor of Exercise and Sport Science.

While at Ithaca, Straub taught sport psychology, kinesiology, and biomechanics of human movement. He also coordinated the graduate program for seven years and was President of the All-College Faculty Council. A former professional baseball player, Dr. Straub coached high school sports for 14 years and was Associate Dean of the School of Health Physical Education and Recreation (HPER) at State University of New York at Cortland. Prior to moving to Cortland, Straub was an Associate in Physical Education and Recreation at the State Education Department in Albany, New York.

Straub is a member of many professional organizations and currently is serving a three-year term as the Business Manager of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology. He is the author of three books and many scientific papers. Recently, he presented a keynote address on psychoneuroimmunology at the International Congress of Sport Psychology in Moscow, Russia.

Straub is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology, and the American Psychological Society. As an applied sport psychologist, Straub has worked for many college, university, and professional teams, including Ithaca College, State University of New York at Cortland, the Washington Redskins, the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Adirondack Red Wings of the American Hockey League. He received his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin.




Professor of Physics

Clint Sprott, Ph.D.
Professor Sprott will discuss contact, control, and friction between the hand and ball. He will also speak about backspin and its relationship to angle of incidence and angle of reflection.

Professor Sprott received his B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1969. Most of his professional career has been devoted to experimental plasma physics with an application to the development of controlled nuclear fusion. This interest began in graduate school, where he studied electron cyclotron resonance heating of plasmas, and continued with his subsequent employment at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he worked on an electron cyclotron heated mirror device and the design of its toroidal successor. Upon returning to the University of Wisconsin, he continued and expanded these studies to include ion cyclotron resonance heating in octupole and tokamak devices.

Since 1989, his work has been mostly in nonlinear dynamics and chaos. He developed several commercially available computer programs that demonstrate chaos and perform time-series analysis of experimental data with the aim of clarifying the underlying dynamics. In 1984, he began a program called The Wonders of Physics, aimed at generating interest in science and encouraging students to consider scientific careers.

This effort has included: over 200 public presentations to a total audience of about 30,000; teacher workshops; development of educational software, videotapes, and a lecture kit; and the training and supervising of graduate students and teachers in employing these techniques.

Professor Sprott is author of three books and over 200 technical papers and abstracts. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, winner of the first annual Computer in Physics software contest (1990), and winner of the John Glover Award at Dickinson College in 1994.




Psychologist

Barbara A. Van Horne, Ph.D.
Dr. Van Horne will discuss methods of concentration and confidence enhancement that can improve free throw line performance.

Barbara A. Van Horne, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in the State of Wisconsin, is registered with the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, and has been in independent practice as a consulting psychologist in Madison, Wisconsin since 1979. Since 1984, she has been developing an expertise in the psychology of sports and is a member of Division 47 (Exercise and Sports), as well as six other divisions of the American Psychological Association. She has presented a number of workshops on exercise and mental health.

Dr. Van Horne currently is President of the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) and is former chair of the Wisconsin Psychology Examining Board. In addition, she is a clinical consultant to the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Wisconsin.




Sports Medicine Expert

Dr. Mark Timmerman
Since the beginning of HMO's in the 1980's, it has been increasingly difficult for Coach Terry Roach, both as a coach and athletic trainer, to get injured athletes to the best sports medicine specialist associated with each of the three HMO's in Madison. To know who is best at each HMO was kind of like, trial and error with athletes injuries. Within only a few experiences of sending injured players to Dr. Mark Timmerman, injured players were returning to Coach Roach with an accurate diagnosis, a rehabilitation plan and an accurate a safe estimated time of return to the court. Because of the many years that have since followed, Coach Roach asked Dr. Timmerman to join the Shot Perfect staff of “Experts”. As our sports medicine expert, Dr. Timmerman will be featured as part of a special segment, immediately following “Shooting for Perfection from the Line”, of care and management of athletic injuries. While highlighting Dr. Timmerman's expertise in this segment, we hope to include different modalities offered by Mueller Sports Medicine.