Lorena Martin is a sports performance consultant helping professional athletes optimize their performance using analytics. She is the first-woman in professional baseball to be Director of High Performance, overseeing the medical team, strength and conditioning coaches, athletic trainers, sport scientists, and nutritionist. Prior to working in professional baseball, she was the Director of Sports Performance Analytics for the Los Angeles Lakers where she analyzed data and developed algorithms to help select players in the draft and monitor on court load to help reduce the risk of injury.

 

Dr. Martin completed her postdoctoral fellowship in the field of analytics; GIS spatial analysis, biostatistics, and epidemiology from the University of California San Diego. She earned her Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology from the University of Miami where she had also obtained her bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Her master’s degree was attained in Mental Health Counseling from Nova Southeastern University.

 

She has been awarded consecutive research funding by the National Institutes of Health including the National Cancer Institute, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities along with having a strong record of publications in peer-reviewed journals. Lorena has also been a contributing author in the following books, Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation 2nd edition, and Improving Exercise Adherence. She then sole-authored the book, Sports Performance Measurement and Analytics.

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Lorena is a former collegiate tennis player and nationally ranked bodybuilder. She is certified by USPTA, PTR, and ACE. She has been invited to speak at international conferences in the area of sports performance and analytics at prestigious institutions such as MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference and NASA.