The Strength Game

Justin Lima is a strength coach, high-performance consultant, as well as the president and CEO of Strength Coach Network. Lima has been at the helm of SCN since 2023, initially starting as a partner with the company from 2020-2022 and followed by serving as the general manager from 2022-2023. In addition, he is serves in dual coaching roles as the head strength and conditioning coach at Goldfinch...

Danny Strohm is the Director of Basketball Performance at Georgia Southern University. Strohm arrived in Statesboro in 2024 after spending the previous two years as the interim director of strength & conditioning at Southeast Missouri State University. He spent the 2021-2022 season as the director of basketball performance at the University of Northern Iowa. Strohm got his start coaching as an...

Shannon Boone is the Head Athletic Performance Coach for USA Women’s Volleyball National Team. She joined Team USA in summer 2025 after spending the previous five years as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Florida State University. Joining FSU in 2020, she oversaw training for the volleyball and beach volleyball programs. Prior to joining the Seminoles, she served as assistant direct...

Connor Truhitte is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach and Fitness Center Director at the University of Redlands. At Redlands Truhitte overseas the strength and conditioning department for all 21 sports in addition to the recreation fitness center on campus. He joined Redlands in 2021 after serving the previous year as an associate sports performance coach at Stanford University working with...

Rick Howard is an Associate Professor in Applied Sports Science at West Chester University (PA), Sports Performance Coordinator, and Coaching Minor Advisor. Starting at West Chester University in 2014, he is also a visiting professor at Reykhavik University, Iceland and a Fellow of the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Previously, Howard served as a teacher at Keilir Health Academy i...

Tanner Care is the Director of Performance for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL) as well as well as the Director of Performance for the Vancouver Bandits of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL). Care joined the BC Lions in summer 2025 and began working with the Bandits in early 2023. Previously, Care was the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at Simon Fraser University...

John Bloom is the Founder and Head Strength Coach of Elevated Athlete Development LLC. Based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Elevated Athlete Development offers coaching services for athletes and mentoring for coaches alike, and is committed to developing the whole athlete, fostering success in athletics and life. Bloom is the former Director of Sports Performance and head of men’s basketball at Or...

Brandon Reyes is an Assistant Football Strength & Conditioning Coach at Colorado University. Reyes came to Boulder in 2023 and in addition to his coaching responsibilities, he coordinates and oversees the sports science integration for the Buffs football program. He spent the previous season as an assistant director of football strength and conditioning at Purdue University and two seasons as...

Madison Peele is an Assistant Sports Performance Coach at the University of Southern California. Peele joined the Trojans in 2022 where she works with the beach volleyball, women’s tennis, women’s water polo, women’s cross country, and men’s cross-country programs. Peele arrived at USC, after completing a Graduate Assistant position at Florida State University. She first began as a student intern...

Conor Hughes is the Head Football Strength & Conditioning Coach at Army West Point. Hughes is in his eighth overall season and sixth as the Head S&C Coach for the Black Knights being named to his current role in 2019 after serving two years as an assistant. He was the head strength and conditioning at the University at Albany for six seasons, where he directed training for the football and...

Colin Kenyon is the Associate Director of Football Strength and Conditioning at Tulane University. Kenyon came to the Green Wave in spring 2024 after spending the previous two seasons working as an assistant football strength coach at Troy University as well as two seasons in a similar role at the University of Illinois from 2021-2022. Prior to joining the Fighting Illini, he spent two seasons at...

Cole Hergott is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC, Canada. He is entering his sixth season at TWU overseeing all 14 teams and over 300 athletes. Prior Trinity Western he spent time as an intern coach at Simon Fraser University in 2018 and student intern coach at TWU from 2015-2018. Hergott was the head strength coach at a private facility in Lang...

Jared Heumann is the Director of Strength and Conditioning at UT Permian Basin where he oversees the training for the football and the women’s basketball team. Heumann arrived at UTPB in 2020 as a graduate assistant coach and was promoted to full-time assistant in 2021 and later took over as the head strength and conditioning coach after one year before being named the director of strength and con...

Connor Gettemy is the Director of Sports Performance at Flagler College.  Arriving in in 2019, he is entering his sixth year overseeing the sports performance department where he is also in charge of training the men’s basketball, volleyball, women’s soccer, women’s tennis, and women’s lacrosse programs. Gettemy began his career in the collegiate sector as an intern coach at both Hofstra Universit...

Brian Roller is the Assistant Director of Sports Performance at Jacksonville University where he oversees the training for the Dolphins’ baseball, women’s soccer, and beach volleyball programs. Roller joined JU in 2021 first as an assistant coach before being promoted to assistant director in 2023. He spent two years as an assistant coach at High Point University after completed his graduate assis...

Rashan Chanyothi is an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at Temple University where he oversees the training for the field hockey, crew and gymnastics programs. In addition to his teams, he serves as the internship coordinator and an Adjunct Instructor in the Kinesiology Physical Activity Program at Temple. Prior to Temple, Chanyothi was an assistant sports performance coach at Georgetown...

Natalie Portwood is an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at the University of South Dakota. Portwood works with the ‘Yotes women’s basketball and women’s soccer teams in addition to being the first assistant for football. She joined South Dakota in the summer of 2022 after spending the previous year and a half as a sports performance graduate assistant at Southeastern Oklahoma State Univ...

Haili Wimer is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Saint Mary’s High School in Bismarck, ND. Prior to SMCHS, Wimer worked in the collegiate setting as an assistant strength coach at Florida International University from May 2023-January 2024 working with beach volleyball, women’s basketball, indoor volleyball, and assisted with football. Prior to FIU she was an GA transitioned into an assi...

Sam Romanski is the Assistant Director of Strength & Conditioning at Stetson University working directly with the men’s basketball, beach volleyball, Men’s Soccer, men’s golf, women’s golf programs in addition to assisting with football. Romanski came to Stetson in 2022 following a stint with the University of Wisconsin football team as an intern strength coach for the 2021 season. Prior to th...

Lilly Bernardi is an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at Hofstra University. Bernardi works with the Pride’s women’s soccer, baseball, women’s lacrosse, men’s golf, track & field and cross country teams in addition to being the internship program coordinator for the Hofstra strength and conditioning department and an adjunct professor. She rejoined the Hofstra staff in 2022 as a ful...

Nat Sauberan is the Assistant Director of Athletic Performance at Gardner-Webb University where he works with the men’s and women’s basketball and wrestling programs, in addition to supervising the intern coach over men’s soccer. Before GWU, Sauberan was the head football strength & conditioning coach at Morehead State University for one season. He served as a graduate assistant coach at Belha...

Sam Jeffries is the Director of Strength & Conditioning at the University of Detroit Mercy. Jeffries came to Detroit Mercy from Elizabeth City State University where he was the assistant athletic director for sports performance where he developed the university’s first sports performance program, integrating the athletic training, strength and conditioning and sports nutrition programs for the...

Ron Dickson is the Assistant Athletic Director for Strength & Conditioning for Olympic Sports at Virginia Tech. At Tech, he directly oversees the department as well as designs and implements S&C programs for men’s soccer, women’s lacrosse, and men’s golf.  Previously, Dickson spent five years at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where in addition to his coaching duties, he was in...

Mason Baggett is an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach for football at the University of Maryland. He returned to College Park to work with the Terps football program after previously serving as the associate director of football strength & conditioning for five season from 2016-2021. Most recently Baggett was the head strength coach for the Nevada football team for two seasons and th...

Mat Clark is the Director of Strength & Conditioning Coach for track & field and cross country at the University of Arkansas. Clark joined the Razorbacks as a strength and conditioning coach in 2014 before being promoted to director in 2023. During his tenure, the Razorback men’s and women’s teams have won eight NCAA team championships, including both the men’s and women’s team titles at t...