Visser’s career path made her a perfect choice to speak Wednesday at the Our Turn to Play Luncheon at UNC Asheville’s Kimmel Arena. The annual luncheon helps raise money for the school’s women’s student-athlete programs. “Her story is so interesting and impressive. We always want speakers to inspire our female student-athletes, and we just felt …
Tulane’s new high-altitude chamber, which opened two months ago in the Hertz Center weight room right next to the basketball practice courts, simulates altitudes from 8,000 to 10,500 feet — nearly two miles high — for hypoxic (low-oxygen) training.
Lesley Visser introduces a cutting edge technology now available to help athletes improve their fitness.
The new chamber is from Altitude International. Tulane is the first school in the country to get this model. Air is sucked in from outside, then highly filtered and separated. It is then pumped into a glass enclosed workout room. Your red blood cell count goes up to carry more oxygen as you grow more …
Lesley sits down for a traditional Polish lunch with legendary Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s lifelong friends, and they talk about his early years.