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Dr. Gros has been a certified athletic trainer and preceptor for 15 years and has experience in a variety of settings; they include secondary school, physical therapy clinic, arena football, collegiate club sport, and summer collegiate baseball league settings. She is a certified and licensed athletic trainer, CPR Instructor, earned her Instrumented Assisted Massage certification, QPR Suicide Prevention certification, and is certified by Â鶹ҹÊÐ for Distance Learning.

She has been awarded the Â鶹ҹÊÐ advising award 4 times and is currently the recipient of the Vesta Bourgeois Professorship in Health and Physical Education.

Dr. Gros is on multiple Â鶹ҹÊÐ committees, interprofessional and athletic training committees, and is a PRN athletic trainer for local events.

Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, concentration in Health Professions Education, 2020
UL Monroe

M.S. in Recreation and Sports Science, concentration in Athletic Training, 2008
Ohio University

B.S. in Athletic Training, 2007
University of Southern Mississippi

• Healthcare education
• Injury prevention and well-being
• Students' emotional factors dealing with testing

• Aldret, R., McDermott, M., Hoffpauir A., Corley, H., Mattox, A., Aldret, S., & Bellar, D. (2018). In-season examination of sleep quality, hormone function, strength and affective state of Division I volleyball athletes. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 50, 259. 
• Aldret, R., McDermott, M., Aldret, S., Alwert, A., Corley, H., Hoffpauir, G., Mattox, A., Bellar, D. (2018). The relationship between cortisol levels, positive mental affect and rate of force development in Division-I women’s volleyball athletes. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 32.

• Â鶹ҹÊÐ’s Vesta Bourgeois Professorship in Health & Physical Education (2020-2022)
• Outstanding Advisor Award recipient (2020, 2019, 2018, 2016)
• Who’s Who in Health Sciences Higher Education (2015)
• Acadian Ambulance Service Award (2010)
• Lafayette Parish’s Everyday Hero (2010)