Alvin Roy Award for Career Achievement

Mike Greenwood, PhD, FNSCA, CSCS,*D, FISSN, FACSM

Dr. Mike Greenwood’s career spanned over forty years as a coach, teacher, researcher, administrator, and leader in many professional and service organizations. He began his career teaching high school physical education and coaching football, track, and basketball. Mike served as an assistant professor, baseball, and basketball coach at Hardin Simmons University. After completing his doctoral degree, he was as an associate professor and Head Baseball Coach at Barry University where he was named the 1995 Sunshine State Conference Baseball Coach-of-the-Year. Mike was tenured as a full professor at Arkansas State University and began collaborating with the Exercise and Sport Nutrition Lab (ESNL) at the University of Memphis. He continued as a research associate with the ESNL when it relocated to Baylor University where he served as a professor, and graduate coordinator. At Texas A&M University, Mike was a clinical professor, director of the West Point Faculty Development program, and continued as an ESNL research associate. During his career, Mike’s research focused on physical education, coaching, motor control, sport psychology, and professional development of strength and conditioning specialists. In collaboration with ESNL researchers and doctoral students, Mike’s research also included seminal work on creatine supplementation as well as significant research on the safety and efficacy of β-hydroxy β-methylbutyrate (HMB), conjugated linoleic acids (CLA), ribose, nutrient timing, and many other nutritional interventions designed to optimize strength training and performance. Mike was CSCS,*D Certified and RSCC*D Credentialed. He contributed chapters related to facility management and safety for the NSCA’s Essentials of Strength and Conditioning textbook and wrote several sport nutrition–related books and contributed to several highly cited position stands published by the International Society of Sports Nutrition. He has more than 225 publications and 5,000 citations in the literature. Mike was also very involved in his professional organizations serving on over 50 state, regional, and national committees. His service to the NSCA, included service as the state director in Arkansas and Texas and a member of numerous committees (e.g., education committee, curriculum director for NSCA educational recognition programs, committee for disabled populations, undergraduate and gradu-ate education recognition subcommittee, educator of the year award subcommittee, executive council of the NSCA certification commission, research, and education committee). In addition, Mike served as an abstract, scholarship, and grant reviewer for the NSCA as well as a reviewer, editorial board member, and/or associate editor on multiple journals, including the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research and the Strength and Conditioning Journal. In addition, Mike received numerous departmental, college, university, and professional awards and fellowships throughout his career in recognition for his teaching, scholarship, and service. He was a fellow of the International Society of Sport Nutrition, the American College of Sports Medicine, and he was very proud to also be a fellow of the National Strength and Conditioning Association and to have received the NSCA Educator of the Year Award in 2004. Dr. Mike Greenwood’s dedication to teaching, scholarship, and service will live on through the thousands of lives he has positively influenced throughout his career.