Your body has unique needs—and understanding them can help you train, compete, recover, and stay in the game.

Join local sports medicine and performance experts for a free event created for female athletes who want to better understand their bodies and take a more informed approach to performance.

Through four focused presentations, you’ll learn how nutrition, movement, pelvic health, injury prevention, and rehabilitation work together to support performance at every stage of an athlete’s life.

Whether you are building your game, returning from an injury, or looking for ways to stay healthy throughout your season, you’ll leave with practical information you can put to work.

This event is free, but seating is limited. COMPLETE THE FORM BELOW TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT!

What You’ll Learn

• How to fuel for performance, recovery, and long-term health
• Why female athletes face distinct injury risks
• What jumping, landing, cutting, and other movement patterns may reveal
• How the pelvic floor contributes to force transfer, load management, and stability
• Why hormonal changes can influence health and athletic performance
• What athletes should know about ACL injury risk, treatment, rehabilitation, and return to sport
• How athletes, parents, coaches, and medical professionals can work together to support healthier performance

TOPICS & FEATURED SPEAKERS

Under Pressure: Rethinking the Pelvic Floor in Sport and Fitness

Becca Sutton, PT, DPT, OCS, MSc, ATC
Doctor of Physical Therapy and Clinic Director
Spooner Rockwall

The pelvic floor plays an important role in much more than bladder function. It contributes to force transfer, load management, and dynamic stability throughout athletic movement.

Becca Sutton will explore the relationship between pelvic floor function, orthopedic care, and athletic performance. She will also discuss how expected and unexpected hormonal changes can affect the pelvic floor across the lifespan, along with conditions that disproportionately affect female athletes, including Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport, or RED-S.

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Beyond the Statistics: Understanding and Reducing ACL Injuries in Female Athletes

Kushal Patel, MD
Board-Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon
Orthopaedic Specialists of Dallas

Female athletes experience ACL injuries at disproportionately high rates—but risk is not determined by one factor alone.

Dr. Patel will explain why these injuries are more common among female athletes, the roles of anatomy, biomechanics, training demands, and other contributing factors, and what athletes can do to reduce modifiable risks. He will also discuss what today’s athletes should know about ACL treatment, rehabilitation, and returning to sport with confidence.

Dr. Patel is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine and shoulder surgery. His experience includes treating Division I and world-class athletes and helping athletes return to high levels of competition.

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Built for Her: Assessing and Reducing Injury Risk in the Female Athlete

Katie Sloma, PT, DPT, CSCS
Research Physical Therapist
Movement Science Lab Frisco
Scottish Rite for Children

Female athletes can demonstrate movement patterns that influence both performance and lower-extremity injury risk.

Katie Sloma will explain what clinicians evaluate during jumping, landing, cutting, and other athletic tasks. Using examples from sport-specific assessments, she will show how factors such as quadriceps-dominant movement strategies and dynamic knee valgus can inform individualized exercises and recommendations.

Athletes and parents will learn how a comprehensive movement assessment can help identify modifiable risk factors and guide strategies for safer, stronger performance.

Katie is a former collegiate softball athlete whose clinical and research interests include biomechanics, injury prevention, and return-to-play decision-making. She has authored multiple peer-reviewed manuscripts and presented nationally on ACL rehabilitation, softball outcomes, and return-to-play assessment.

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Fueling Her Performance: Nutrition for the Female Athlete

Kaylie Campbell, MS, RDN, CSSD, LD
Sports Dietitian
Curis Functional Health, Rockwall and Plano

Training harder cannot make up for consistently underfueling.

Kaylie Campbell will discuss the nutritional needs of female athletes, including important nutrients, fueling around training and competition, and how the menstrual cycle may influence nutrition needs. She will also address the importance of developing a sustainable relationship with food and body image.

A former collegiate soccer player, Kaylie has eight years of experience helping female and collegiate athletes translate nutrition science into practical habits that support performance, recovery, and long-term health.

Performance Fueling Experience

McKenzie Boroughs, BSN, RN
Certified Nutrition Coach and Founder of McKBoroughs Nutrition

Come early or stay after the presentations to sample athlete-friendly fueling and recovery options provided by McKenzie Boroughs, including:

• Cold brew with protein foam
• Protein bars and meat sticks
• Clear protein drinks
• Post-workout recovery protein samples

Light food and drinks will also be provided.

Who Should Attend?

This event was created primarily for female athletes of all ages and levels. Parents and coaches are also encouraged to attend.

Members of the sports medicine community—including physicians, physical therapists, athletic trainers, strength professionals, and other healthcare providers—are welcome to join the conversation and connect with fellow professionals supporting female athletes.

Event Details

Saturday, October 24, 2026
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Spooner Rockwall
3101 Fit Sports Life Boulevard
Suite 102
Rockwall, TX

Admission is free. Seating is limited, and advance registration is recommended.