New technology on the effectiveness of external stimuli or training volume continuously develops to assist with enhancing athletic performance. Assessing the physiological responses athletes experience from training is crucial when developing programs to simultaneously optimize performance and improve fitness levels. By combining coaching expertise with scientific technology, coaches can monitor and obtain their athletes' individual objective physiological responses program(s). PURPOSE: To describe the physical training doses through heart rate monitoring of strength and conditioning (S&C) sessions compared to a game in female soccer and basketball collegiate athletes. METHODS: Participants were nine female soccer players [means ± wore a heart rate chest strap monitor during the summer S&C training sessions and pre-season games. Each subject's height, weight, age-predicted max heart rate, and player position were recorded into Polar Team 2 Pro system. After each training session and game, each subjects' data from the transmitter was uploaded for analysis. Data was subsequently analyzed to determine the training load (TL), average calories expended per minute (kcal/min), average heart rate, maximum heart rate, and percent of time spent in each training zone (Z1-Z5) for the selected S&C sessions (T1 and T2) and one pre-season game (T3). RESULTS: One-way ANOVA with repeated measures detected significant differences in women's soccer TL with post hoc comparisons revealing the TL in T3 One-way ANOVA with repeated measures detected significant differences in women's basketball kcal/min, average heart rate and percent of time spent in Z1-Z5. Post hoc comparisons revealed T3 had the lowest values in both kcal/min (9.7 ± 3.0) and average heart rate (134.6 ± 21.9). T1 had the greatest amount of time spent in Z4 (25.9 ± 10.0) had the greatest percent time spent in Z1 (44.0 ± 28.9) and the least amount of time spent in Z3 (11.3 ± 6.3) and Z4 (15.2 ± 7.1). CONCLUSION: Summer strength and conditioning sessions for soccer produced physiological responses that were relatively similar to the responses experienced in pre-season games. However, summer strength and conditioning sessions for basketball had similar training loads to the pre-season game but it did not replicate the physiological responses in the pre-season games. Heart rate monitoring systems may be useful in helping strength and conditioning coaches and the sport coaches to quantify physiological responses to game and practice sessions in their athletes. appreciation for their patience, assistance, encouragement, and beneficial critiques for this work. I would like to thank my chair member, Dr. Dale …