Zack is in his third year with the Miami Hurricanes baseball program and his first overseeing the analytics department. He also serves as the program’s biomechanist, operating the stadium-mounted KinaTrax motion capture system.
Zack earned a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from Penn State University in 2016, completing his studies as a biomechanics intern in the university’s Golf Teaching and Research Center.
He went on to complete an M.S. in Exercise Science at Appalachian State University, where he worked as the graduate research associate in the Injury Neuromechanics lab. He moved to Miami in 2019 and started his doctoral work as a graduate assistant in the Sports Medicine and Motion Analysis lab within the Department of Kinesiology and Sport Sciences.
His dissertation work focused on the KinaTrax markerless system and its application in clinical gait analysis. He completed this work in 2022, earning a PhD in Exercise Physiology. After graduation, Zack started his postdoctoral research training with the UHealth Sports Medicine Institute, focusing on lower extremity injury and recovery.
He completed this in August of 2024 and joined the Miller School of Medicine faculty as an instructor in the Department of Orthopaedics, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Kinesiology and Sport Sciences. Zack’s primary objective as supporting staff is to evaluate in-game movement data of pitchers and batters and provide deliverables for coaches to optimize performance and reduce injury risk in their athletes.