The Strength Game

Andrew Wentz is an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at High Point University where he oversees the training for the men’s lacrosse, volleyball, and women’s soccer teams. He arrived at High Point in late 2021 by way of nearby Wake Forest University where he was an intern coach. Wentz began his coaching career personal training in 2016 and served in similar internship positions at both UN...

Henry Adelman joined the Cal Poly staff as an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at the start of 2022 where he works with the football, men’s soccer, women’s basketball, wrestling, and throwing programs. Prior to returning to the west coast he most recently served as the head football strength coach at Maryville College in Tennessee, after spending time as a volunteer coach at the Univers...

Sarah Cerami is an Athletic Trainer at Mississippi State University working directly with the women’s volleyball team. She joined the MSU staff in 2020 after previously working at Fresno State University, first as a graduate intern with the water polo, and swim dive team before transitioning into a graduate assistant role with the water polo team from 2018 to 2020. Cerami also served as the athlet...

Alec Olson is an Assistant Sports Performance Coach at Western Oregon University where he directs all aspects of performance for the women’s volleyball, track and field, women’s basketball, and men’s soccer teams in addition to assisting with all other sports. Olson began his coaching career at his alma mater, Western Oregon, as a student intern coach before returning in 2020 at a full-time capaci...

Michael De La Pava is a strength coach and owner of The Battle Axe Gym in Miami, Florida. Michael opened The Battle Axe Gym’s doors in 2012 and the invite-only gym is home to athletes of all various disciplines including powerlifting, MMA fighters, Strongman, officers of multiple authorities and military personnel. Prior to opening his facility he has also worked as a personal trainer and social w...

Angelo Gingerelli has been a Strength Coach at Seton Hall since 2005 and oversees all aspects of training and conditioning for the Olympic Sports. Prior to arriving at Seton Hall, he spent the 2005 season with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization and was an assistant strength coach at NC State from 2001-2005. He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant strength coach at Virginia Tech. In a...

Zach Fears is the Assistant AD for Sports Performance at Southeastern Oklahoma State. Prior to arriving at SEOSU in 2019 he served as the head coach at Lincoln University in Missouri since 2017. Fears got his start coaching first as the director of sports performance in the private sector at Sterling Sports Performance in Pella, Iowa before getting into collegiate sports working at North Carolina...

Shane Sutherland is a track and field coach as well as teacher at Walhalla High School in Walhalla, South Carolina. Prior to Walhalla, Sutherland previously served as a both the track and field as well as cross country coach and teacher at Stratford High School in Goose Creek, SC. From 2002-2019 he not only led training for both teams on the field and in the classroom as an economics, history and...

Cameron Dietz is currently an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at Utah Valley University where he oversees training for the baseball, softball, wrestling, men’s soccer, men’s golf and women’s golf programs. Prior to arriving at UVU he was a post-graduate intern at the University of North Texas and a graduate assistant coach for two years at the University of Northern Colorado. Dietz got...

Jon McNemar is a Sports Performance Coach at Duke University. He joined the Blue Devils in July of 2021 and works directly with the field hockey, track & field sprints-jumps groups, as well as men’s tennis team. McNemar previously worked at Jacksonville University where in 2015 he worked his way from intern to graduate assistant before being promoted to a full-time assistant strength coach in...

Chris Messina is the Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Boston Red Sox. Messina was promoted to the Major League level in 2021 after serving strength coaching roles with Red Sox affiliate teams in the AAA, Arizona Fall League, and Eastern League team level. He joined the Red Sox organization in 2016 after serving as a minor league strength coach with the Bristol Pirates of the App...

Aaron Wood is the Director of Strength & Conditioning at Belhaven University where he oversees all 15 teams. Prior to arriving at Belhaven in 2019, Wood served as a strength coach at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, TX for a season overseeing both the football and baseball programs. He spent time working with both ice hockey programs at the University of Minnesota following three years in...

Justin Blatnik is the Head Strength Coach and Owner of the Strength Empire Gym in Indian Trail, NC as well as Firefighter for the Charlotte Fire Department. Prior to opening Strength Empire in 2017, Blatnik was a self-employed strength coach and personal trainer, working with clients out of his garage since 2015. In addition to coaching at his own training facility, he’s worked as a personal train...

Chris Norman is the Head Coach of Training and Chief Operating Officer of Capital SUP in Annapolis, MD where he has been in those roles since 2014. In addition to his position at Capital SUP, Norman is a physical education teacher at St. Mary’s elementary school. He has also spent time in the private sector, high school level, as well as college setting prior to working in the youth school system....

Tom Evans is an assistant strength & conditioning coach at the University of Delaware. He oversees the training for the women’s lacrosse and men’s lacrosse teams in addition to assisting with the football program. Prior to arriving at UDel in 2017, Evans was an assistant strength coach at Elkin Sports Performance in Richmond, VA.  In addition to Evans coaching experience, he has an extensive a...

Brandon Bullett is the head coach and owner of Bullett Performance Training gym in Clovis, CA. Brandon opened Bullet Performance Training in 2016 while also working as an assistant coach for the Fresno Monsters hockey team in addition to leading their strength & conditioning program. Since opening Brandon has also worked with local high schools Memorial, Kerman, and Buchanan’s baseball teams....

Matt Tometz is the Sports Science Coordinator and Sports Performance Specialist at TCBoost Sports Performance in Northbrook, Illinois. At TCBoost, Coach Tometz works with youth, middle school, high school, college, and professional athletes from all sports as well organizes the sport science efforts and experiments for the performance staff. Prior to his current position, he was a sport scientist...

Guillermo Blanco is a tactical strength & conditioning coach currently working with the Army’s H2F Program at Fort Bragg, NC. Prior to his time in the tactical setting, Coach Blanco served multiple roles at McKendree University (DII) as the head powerlifting coach, assistant athletic performance coach as well as adjunct instructor. In the collegiate setting he’s also been an assistant coach at...

Sam Whitney is the Athletic Operations Coordinator and Strength & Conditioning Coach at The Agnes Irwin School in Philadelphia, PA. Prior to his current position, Whitney spent 9 years as first an assistant coach before being promoted to the Associate Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for Olympic Sports at Temple University where he oversaw training for the 15 varsity sports. He served as...

Randy Flores is an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Los Angeles Lakers. Prior to arriving at his current position he spent his time in the college ranks first as a student assistant coach at Texas Tech University before being elevated to full-time assistant coach. After his time at Texas Tech he spent three season as the head strength coach for men’s basketball at the University...

Andy Ward is the Assistant Director of Football Strength & Conditioning at the University of Colorado. He arrived at Colorado after four years at Fresno State as the head strength coach and then the director of sports performance for football. Prior to Fresno State, Ward was a sports performance Coach at Stanford University. He began his coaching career splitting time between Custom Built Pers...

Kara Concheck is the Head Coach for the Women’s Lacrosse team at The Savannah College of Art and Design. Prior to her joining SCAD in the summer of 2021, Concheck was an assistant, interim head coach, and head coach at Fresno State University. She began her coaching career with the Major Force lacrosse Club in Columbus, Ohio before working as an assistant coach at Oberlin College and then the head...

Dustin Dailey is an Assistant Sports Performance Coach at Georgetown University working with the football and men’s lacrosse programs. Prior to his arrival at the Hilltop in 2021 he was the head speed and strength coach at D1 Sports Training in his home state of Texas. Additionally, he’s spent time as an assistant coach at Saint Leo University, professional performance intern at the NSCA headquart...

Kyle Lillie is an Assistant Track & Field Coach at Sacramento State University working with the throwers. He began his coaching career at Division III Husson University in Bangor, ME in 2015 and soon after, Mesa Community College in Arizona before arriving at his current role at Sac State in 2018.  A two-time junior college All-American, Lillie claimed the outdoor title and placed 2nd in indoo...

Regan Quaal is an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at the University of Minnesota where he assists with both the men’s and women’s hockey programs in addition to departmental research. Prior to his current role he’s spent time as a sports performance coach at the University of Providence and Georgetown University, a head strength coach at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA as well...