NG Yew Cheo

ACESS Executive Board Assistant Secretary General

NG Yew Cheo, FIFPEFSSA

Assistant Secretary General, Asian Council of Exercise and Sports Science (ACESS)
Executive Board Member, ACESS
Senior Young Leader (SYL), The Foundation of Global Community Health (GCH)
Fellow, International Federation of Physical Education, Fitness and Sports Science Associations (FIFPEFSSA)
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
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Ng Yew Cheo is working full-time and concurrently running and training competitively under her supervisor and coach, Dr. Balasekaran. She also does research that focuses on human performance, health and in physical education. Cheo has published numerous papers in peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters even though she had just completed her undergraduate degree. She is the Secretary General for 11th Asia Pacific Conference for Exercise & Sports Science (APCESS)-Kuching, Sarawak, and Assistant Secretary General for 10th APCESS-Kaifeng, China. She is the only Singaporean who recently won first place in the prestigious Young Investigators Award (YIA) at the 14th Asia Conference on Kinesiology & Sports Science (ACKSS), International Conference on Movement, Health and Exercise (MoHE) 2024. She has also won best oral presentation presentations at the Asia Association Sport Management conferences (2022-2023). Furthermore, she was recently awarded as Fellow, International Federation of Physical Education, Fitness and Sports Science Associations (FIFPEFSSA). Moreover, she is also an IAAF Youth level 1 certified coach and coaches voluntarily. She has also often gone beyond her time to help coach many young children and motivate their interest in running. She has also conducted workshops, developed videos and CDs on running tactics and prevention of injuries from running. She has also worked on the Brain Breaks study in Singapore and is helping local schools to make it the UNSGD lab of the future.