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Lily Alder is a BYU distance runner and longtime member of the Roadrunner Junior Club. She competed nationally with the Nike Elite Program after becoming one of Utah’s leading high-school distance runners and setting a state record for Timpview. She brings firsthand experience in athlete development, high-level competition, and balancing ambitious goals with long-term growth
Heather Thayer is a BYU PRISM member and research assistant for developing and testing performance apps. A nationally ranked high-school discus thrower, she brings firsthand experience in collegiate athletics. Her work emphasizes athlete outreach, longitudinal data collection, injury-pattern analysis, and sharing performance insights through accessible digital content.
Kaden Chidester is a BYU business management student and offensive lineman on the university’s football team. A three-star recruit from Richfield, Utah, he brings experience with high-performance training, teamwork, and the demands placed on collegiate athletes. He supports IRSRI athletes by helping them establish meaningful goals, remain accountable, and connect daily training with long-term development.
Bradley Greenhalgh is a BYU student who contributes to the AI form analysis project. He developed an early version of the project’s Streamlit application, created tools for extracting video frames, collected training footage, and annotated hundreds of images used to train a model. His work connects data preparation, software development, and practical biomechanics analysis.
Bryce Greenhalgh is an Electrical and Computer Engineering BYU student serving as a mentor with the Data-Driven Coaching initiative. He helps athletes build individual profiles, clarify their motivations, and connect training goals with consistent daily habits. His work emphasizes personal communication, accountability, and using athlete information thoughtfully to support healthy, sustainable development.
Cambria McLeod is a BYU student serving as a mentor in the AI Data-Driven Coaching program. She works with athletes to develop personal profiles that capture their goals, motivations, training history, and individual needs. Her athlete-centered approach helps ensure that performance data is interpreted in context and translated into supportive, practical coaching guidance.
Ashley McKay is a BYU student mentor supporting athlete development. She helps athletes identify the deeper purpose behind their participation in sport, establish meaningful goals, and reflect on their training experiences. Her work combines personal encouragement with data-informed feedback to promote confidence, consistency, and long-term engagement in athletics.
Ethan Daugherty is a BYU student serving as a mentor with the AI Data-Driven Coaching initiative. He helps athletes organize their goals, training history, motivations, and performance information into useful individual profiles. Through regular communication and thoughtful review of athlete data, he supports informed training decisions and steady, sustainable progress.
Chloe Garrett is a BYU student mentor who supports athletes through goal-setting, profile development, and individualized feedback. She helps athletes recognize the motivations behind their participation in sport and connect those motivations with constructive training habits. Her work contributes to the effort to combine supportive relationships with insightful use of athlete data.
Ryan Lay is a BYU student mentor in the AI Data-Driven Coaching program. He works with athletes to define their purpose, identify short- and long-term goals, and use training information to evaluate progress. His mentoring emphasizes consistency, accountability, and helping athletes understand how everyday choices contribute to sustained improvement.
Carson Halls is a BYU student mentor supporting athlete-development efforts. He helps athletes clarify their goals, build comprehensive profiles, and interpret training feedback in light of their individual circumstances. His work emphasizes practical accountability and the importance of developing athletes as people while pursuing measurable improvements in performance.
Jacob Petersen is a BYU student serving as an athlete mentor. He helps athletes build profiles that bring together their goals, motivations, training experience, and performance trends. Through regular communication and data-informed reflection, he supports athletes in developing consistency, confidence, and a clearer understanding of the purpose behind their training.
Nathan Brimhall is a BYU student researcher and former collegiate distance runner who leads IRSRI research in throwing-event biomechanics and step detection. He has developed data-extraction tools, engineered machine-learning features, trained multiple detection models, and integrated discus analysis into the main software pipeline. He brings experience in both endurance athletics and applied sports technology to athlete development.
Aaron Thayer is a BYU student and app engineer supporting IRSRI’s pole-vault biomechanics research. He has developed video-analysis tools for athlete-height calibration, step detection, cadence, stride length, and maximum hip height. His work helps translate computer-vision measurements into practical information that coaches and athletes can use to understand technique and improve performance.
Bryan Hamson is a BYU student mentor with a background in middle-distance running and cross-country. He competed for Bear River High School in events ranging from the 400 meters through the 5K, giving him experience with both speed- and endurance-oriented training. He uses that perspective to help athletes understand their goals, progress, and training decisions.
Lena Johnson is a BYU student serving as an athlete mentor. She helps create individualized athlete profiles that consider goals, motivation, training experience, and personal circumstances alongside performance measurements. Her work supports a whole-athlete coaching approach in which data informs decisions without replacing communication, encouragement, and individual judgment.
Evelyn Scott is a BYU student mentor who helps athletes develop personalized profiles and meaningful performance goals. She supports athletes in understanding why they participate, recognizing the habits that influence their progress, and communicating their individual needs. Her work helps connect objective training information with the personal context required for effective coaching.
Emily Young is a BYU student serving as a mentor with the AI Data-Driven Coaching initiative. She works directly with athletes to document their goals, motivations, training backgrounds, and development priorities. By combining attentive communication with performance information, she helps athletes better understand their progress and take greater ownership of their training.
Elisha Jones is a BYU student mentor who contributes to IRSRI’s individualized coaching program. She helps athletes articulate their motivations, identify development goals, and organize relevant training and performance information. Her work supports a collaborative approach in which athletes participate actively in evaluating progress and making thoughtful decisions about their development.
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