Alex Tousignant

Alex Tousignant joined Nebraska Athletics in July 2024 as an assistant sport scientist with the Nebraska Athletic Performance Lab. Tousignant is responsible for utilizing data to enhance the coaches and Performance Team's ability to make effect decisions during training and return to play processes as well as establishing systems and assessments to monitor training loads and individual training responses to reduce the likelihood of injury, ensure training progress and optimize physical readiness for competition. 

Prior to Nebraska, Tousignant worked at the University of Pittsburgh as a sports science graduate assistant, automating and centralizing the reporting process of women's lacrosse GPS, performance and wellness data to create a sports science hub in Shiny. Tousignant also informed coaches, strength and conditioning, athletic training and nutrition departments by providing objective training, match, return to play, lifestyle, and seasonal reports. 

Tousignant spent three off-seasons with Noble Sports Performance, coaching detailed off-season performance programs for NHL, Olympic and elite junior hockey players as well as leading all sports science initiatives, including performance assessments and data analysis to inform training prescription. 

Tousignant started his career as a sports performance intern at Brock University during his undergraduate degree and included stops as head strength and conditioning coach for the Halifax Thunderbirds of the NLL, associate head of strength and conditioning at St. Andrews College, and lead strength and conditioning coach for Ridley College Prep Basketball.

Tousignant has his bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Brock University (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada) and his master's degree in sports science from the University of Pittsburgh. Alex grew up playing competitive ice hockey, football and lacrosse and enjoys hiking, reading, experimenting with new recipes, and playing with his dogs in his free time.