Madison Power News Archives
At our annual student-intern appreciation dinner we gave out the following 2013-14 awards:
Intern of The Year - Eric Rhodes
Female Student of The Year - Liz Zwicker
Male Student of The Year - Andrew Rogers
Congratulations Coach Eric Rhodes
for successfully earning his NSCA CSCS certification.
Coaches Nicholas Gounaris, Michael Bullis and Hans Werner attended the 2014 Washington Nationals Baseball sports performance clinic at the Nationals' training facility.
Our new Director of Football Strength & Conditioning is Aaron Burkart
Coach Burkart previously worked the last two years at the University of Illinois as an assistant strength and conditioning coach for football,
Steve Bamel (Former JMU Senior Assistant) has been hired to work as a strength and conditioning specialist for the U.S. Navy Seals in Coronado, CA.
We have a new Senior Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach - Christian Carter, PhD, is onboard and making an impact in the training of the Dukes.
Coach Nicholas Gounaris has been promoted up to a full-time 12 month contract as Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach. Nic has done a great job for the past year and we're happy he's on the 2013-14 staff making a big impact on the Dukes' performance.
Quintrel Lenore resigned his assistant position at JMU to take over the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach spot at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. Coach Q will make a big difference for the Hornets' development and performance.
To our 2012-13 Intern Award winners
Nicholas Gounaris, Lock Haven U. - Summer 2012
Josh Christovich, JMU - Fall 2012
Logan Cox, JMU - Spring 2013
These awards were given out at our annual Intern awards dinner.
Coach Werner spoke at the following in 2013
2013 Hammer Strength Clinic
Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA.
June 1, 2013
2013 Juniata College Strength & Conditioning Clinic
Huntingdon, PA June 14-15, 2013
View Clinic Schedule and Presenters
Josh Christovich for being accepted to ETSU to perform your Masters work under Mike and Meg Stone.
Quintrel Lenore and Nicholas Gounaris for earning their NSCA CSCS certifications.
Cliff Parkins, former JMU Intern, new assistant women's lacrosse and Strength & Conditioning coach at West Virginia Wesleyan College.
Dave Forman, JMU Alum and former Strength & Conditioning Assistant, for 1.) helping San Jose State football to a record 11-2 season in 2012 as the Head Football Strength & Conditioning Coach and 2.) recently becoming the new Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at the University of Colorado.
Coaches Werner and Bennett presented at this year's annual Valley Health Coaches Clinic. Our slides will be up here soon.
Coach Werner presented at the 2012 CSCCa National Conference in Orlando, on May 9.
Coach Werner took Nic Gounaris, Josh Christovich, Becky
Hotek and Andrew Rogers to the ETSU Center of Excellence
for Sport Science and Coach Education's 7th Annual Coaches & Sport Science
College, December 14-15, 2012.
Nicholas Gounaris, previous JMU Intern, has graduated from Lock Haven University and been hired at JMU as an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach.
Quintrel Lenore, previous JMU Student Assistant, is now a JMU Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach.
Scott Bennett, previous Senior Assistant at JMU, is Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at Radford University.
Cristi Bartlett, previous Assistant at JMU, is an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jim Durning, previous Director of Football Strength & Conditioning at JMU (12 years), is Director of Strength & Conditioning at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Donnie Smith, previous Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at JMU, is an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Mike Basgier, previous JMU Student Assistant, is the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for Men's Basketball at the University of Illinois
Jason Vest, previous JMU Student Assistant, is an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at Middle Tennessee State University (and newly married)
Ben Reynolds, previous JMU Student Assistant, is an intern at the University of South Carolina working with football.
Joe Valentino, previous JMU Student Assistant, is a G.A. Strength & Conditioning Coach at Florida Atlantic University.
Jillian Zeller, previous JMU Student Assistant, is a G.A. Strength & Conditioning Coach at Boston University.
Frank Tyree, previous JMU Student Assistant, is an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at Norfolk State University.
Summer 2012 Intern Trip to Virginia Tech and ProStrength & Speed
Coaches Bennett and Werner with legendary Coach Mike Gentry, Virginia Tech.
Summer 2012 interns with Coach Mike Gentry, Virginia Tech, Assistant A.D. for Strength & Conditioning, in the brand new V.T. Olympic Sports weight room.
Coaches Werner and Bennett took a group of Summer interns down to Rogersville, TN to do the Ultimate Athlete Clinic at ProStrength & Speed. It was a very rewarding experience for all. We will have a trip video up soon.
Our ten Summer Interns are doing an excellent job and getting a lot of hands-on expereince. This class includes students from Lock Haven University, Bridgewater College, Shenandoah University and Waynesburg University as well as JMU.
Congratulations to Jill Zeller (JMU '11) for her steady progress in the coaching ranks - internships at Athletes Performance, Mik Boyle and Northeastern U., and now she will be a GA at Boston U this fall. We're very proud of Jill, she's a great young coach.
Congratulations to our student assistants for earning Summer Internships:
Bret Hartnett, intern for University of Tennessee and Coach Ron McKeefery
Brian Shifflett, intern for Wake Forest University and Coach Ethan Reeve
Joe Valentino, intern for Carolina Panthers and Coach Joe Kenn
The Spring 2012 Intern class has done an outstanding job. Sixteen young coaches lead by Coach Scott Bennett, Intern Coordinator, and Coach Werner. Alex Valadja not pictured (on the road with baseball)
Congratulations To Coach Lee Rowland, Lee has accepted the position of Head Strength & Conditioning coach at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi. Lee will direct the entire program for the Islanders 13 athletic teams. JMU Strength & Conditioning and the entire athletic program thanks Lee for 5 great years of committed service.
Coach Scott Bennett attended the NCAA Safeguards Committee meeting (Jan), and the NATA sponsored Inter-Association Task Force Meeting on Preventing Sudden Death in Sport (Jan). Scott has been busy representing the CSCCa Board of Directors, and the strength & conditioning profession.
Congratulations to Phillip Brown (JMU '11) for winning the John Stucky award for demonstrating outstanding knowledge and mastery in taking the practical portion of the CSCCa certification exam in Orlando, FL on May 11. JMU Strength & Conditioning is very proud of Phillip and his accomplishment. Phillip is currently a GA at Auburn.
JMU
Strength & Conditioning has a new assistant
coach, Cristi Bartlett is onboard as a Duke now. Cristi comes to JMU
from the IVY League's U.Penn where she was an assistant for the past year.
Prior to Penn she was an assistant at Morehead State University. Coach
Bartlett has a true passion for athletic strength & conditioning
development. She played basketball at Winthrop U and Catawba U, and
then went on to complete her Masters degree from U.N.C.Charlotte.
Coach Scott Bennett completed the Saint Jude Marathon in Memphis, enduring the 26+ miles to raise funds for a worthy cause. Story coming soon.
Congratulations to Student Assistant, Joe Valentino, Joe has earned a Winter/Spring strength & conditioning internship with Coaches Joe Kenn and Adam Feit of the Carolina Panthers.
Welcome
to Coach Scott Bennett, our new Senior Assistant Strength &
Conditioning Coach. Scott comes to JMU having served as the
Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at most recently Marshall University.
Prior to Marshall Coach Bennett was the Head at Southern Mississippi, and
Wyoming prior to that. Along with Coach Werner, Coach Bennett is a
Master Strength & Conditioning Coach and serves on the Board of Directors
for the CSCCa. Scott will work with Baseball, Softball, Volleyball and
Men's Tennis, as well as coordinate our student intern program.
At this year's National Conference in Kansas City, Coach Werner was elected by his peers to the Board of Directors for the Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa).
Congratulations to Coach Callye Williams - Coach Williams served as our Senior Assistant for three great years and has now taken an Assistant post at Oklahoma State University. Callye did an outstanding job at JMU and we all miss her and wish her all the best.
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Congratulations to Jake Lowery - Winner of The Johnny Bench award. This award is given to the Nation's best catcher. "Jake worked very hard in the weightroom and in conditioning." C.Williams
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Congratulations to Student Assistant Jill Zeller - Jill graduated and is now at Athletes Performance in Arizona as an intern.
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Congratulations to Student Assistant Phillip Brown - Phillip graduated, went to Baylor University as an intern, and now has moved on to Auburn to be a G.A. for Coach Yoxall.
Congratulations to Student Assistant Bryan Shifflett - Bryan graduated and is now at Wake Forest University as an intern.
Congratulations to previous Student Assistant Jason Vest - Jason graduated, went to Wake Forest and then Auburn as an intern, then was a G.A. and earned his Masters at Troy University and he has now been hired as an Assistant at Wagner University.
Congratulations
to Dave Forman (JMU alum and former student
assistant strength coach) - Coach Forman
left Stanford to become the new Head Football Strength & Conditioning
Coach at San Jose State University.
Congratulations to Rickey Jackson, Graduate Assistant Coach, for earning a paid strength & conditioning Internship with the United States Olympic Training Center. Rickey will work at the Chula Vista training center beginning in January.
For the 16th
consecutive year, James Madison University
ranked as the top public, master's-level
university in the South in the highly
regarded annual poll on academic
quality conducted by U.S. News & World Report
for its guidebook, 2010 America's Best
Colleges. JMU also had the highest
graduation rate - 80 percent - among
both public and privates colleges in the South
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Congratulations to JMU Alum and
Strongman Competitor Mike Jenkins who won the 2010 Arnold Amateur World
Strongman Championship. 
After his win at the Arnold Mike has gone on to
take 2nd at the Pro Nationals and 2nd at Americas Strongest Man at the
Olympia in Vegas 3 weeks ago. The two guys that beat Mike were Derek
Poundstone and Travis Ortmayer, both have been finalists at the World's
Strongest Man for the past four years. Big Mike is prepping for the Pro
Arnold now.
(click here to read more
about Mike Jenkins)
Congratulations to Ashley Oursler, Affiliate Assistant Coach, for earning her NSCA CSCS certification, and for being accepted into Physician's Assistant school for this Winter.
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Congratulations to the following award winners for 2009-10:
Intern of The Year Award - Wayne Adams
Student Assistant of The Year Award - Phillip Brown
Student Commitment Award - Ashley Oursler
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JMU Strength & Conditioning Coaches Rowland, Brown, Werner, Jackson and Williams pictured with Dr. Michael Yessis at the University of Richmond's Sports Performance Symposium, 4/17/10.
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Former JMU Strength & Conditioning Assistant, Ally Bowersock
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Coach Werner will be speaking on February 26, 2010 at the 2nd Annual HBCU Exercise and Sport really is medicine conference at Virginia State University. NSCA President Dr. Jay Hoffman will be Keynote speaker for the conference. The conference is welcome to all, and the conference is one of the first to emphasize an increase in Women and Minorities in leadership engagements. Some of the forums will include how to increase job opportunities for Women and Minorities in Exercise Science Positions (Head Strength Coach, Head Athletic Trainer, Teacher, Coach, etc). (click here for speaker lineup and registration form)
Mike Jenkins, former JMU Football OL, takes 3rd place in Strongman National Championship. Click here for photo gallery of Mike's comp.
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CONGRATULATIONS to our
2008-09 Award Recipients
- JuWann James, MBB - NSCA All-American
- Kisha Stokes, WBB - NSCA All-American
- Shane Whitehead - Intern of the Year Award
- Jason Vest - Student Assistant of the Year Award
- Rachel Coleman - Intern Monster Award
- Mike Martin - Graduate Intern of the Year Award
and to all our Interns and Practicum students who Graduated.
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A belated Congratulations to Mike Basgier (former outstanding JMU Student Assistant '00), Mike joined Ohio University Athletics in the role of Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning
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Congratulations to Callye Williams for earning the NSCA Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) certification.
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Our NEW Strength & Conditioning Complex in the Claude E. Warren Fieldhouse at Memorial Hall is nearing completion. The complex will have a weightroom, spinner/cardio room and an indoor speed and agility area. Look for pictures soon.
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Coach Werner and Student Assistant Phillip Brown worked with Dr. Chris Calendine and the staff at Pro Strength & Speed in Rogersville, TN to put on The 2009 Ultimate Athlete Clinic on Friday, 8/24. The clinic was a big success with attendance over 100.
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Coaches Werner, Williams, Rowland and Brown all attended the 2009 Strength & Conditioning / Athletic Development Conference at Loyola College in Baltimore. "Coach Rob Taylor did an exceptional job running this conference. One of the best I've ever attended." GW
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CONGRATULATIONS to Jason Vest, our 2009 Student Assistant of The Year, he has earned a Graduate Assistantship position at Troy University. Jason is now working with Auburn University Strength & Conditioning and Coach Yoxall.
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CONGRATULATIONS to former JMU student assistant, Mike Basgier, he is now the Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning/Head Men's Basketball Strength Coach at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Mike has been an Assistant at Indiana for the past four years.
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We are currently developing a new Athletic Development Complex (weight room, cardio/plyo room, indoor training facility) in our new Baseball & Softball Complex at Memorial Hall.
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CONGRATULATIONS to former JMU Senior Assistant Coach,
Steve Bamel, he is now the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at the College of Charleston.
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Up Coming Conference:
Download PDF | About the Speakers
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We have another new set of the UCS G2 Plyosafe Plyometric Boxes 6"-60" being built for our basketball weightroom
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Dec. 06, 2008, Standardsville, VA. Callye Williams, JMU senior assistant strength & conditioning coach, Won the 2008 USAPL Virginia State Powerlifting meet. In this her first ever powerlifting meet, Callye set state records in all her lifts: 330* Squat, 175* Bench, 350 Deadlift. She successfully squatted 350 and bench pressed 185 but did not receive credit due to a hand movement on the squat and racking the bar too quickly in the bench. Click here for photo gallery. or here for Video of Callye's comp.
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2nd year, Student Assistant Jason Vest has been accepted to perform a Strength & Conditioning internship with Coach Ethan Reeve at Wake Forest University for the Spring semester.
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Steve Bamel, previous JMU Senior Assistant,
discusses training the U.S. Olympians with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Steve is a Strength & Conditioning Coach at the U.S.O.T.C. in Chula Vista,
California.
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Coaches Werner and Williams gave 4 presentations and a 2.5 hour hands-on workshop to the Harrisonburg High School P.E. Teachers and Sport Coaches on 8/20/08
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Former standout JMU defensive tackle ('04) and Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach Brandon Beach has been hired as the new Strength & Conditioning Coach at Hofstra University. Congratulations Brandon! JMU is a much better place because you where here.
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Elliott White, Student Assistant/Intern has earned a GA Strength & Conditioning position at the University of South Alabama. Congratulations Elliott! Thanks for all your hard work and dedication to JMU Strength & Conditioning.
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Congratulations to University of Minnesota Associate Strength & Conditioning Coach, Sara Wiley, for winning the 2008 NSCA Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Professional of The Year award. Sara is an excellent Coach and much deserving.
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Coaches Werner and Williams will be attending the Loyola College Strength & Conditioning Athletes Performance Conference July 18-19 in Baltimore.
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We have three new sets of the UCS G2 Plyosafe Plyometric Boxes 6"-60" being built
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CONGRATULATIONS to Coach Callye Williams for Winning the 2008 John Stucky Award, for Outstanding Performance on the practical portion of the CSCCa Certification Examination.
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Callye Williams has accepted the position of Senior Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach. Coach Williams comes to JMU from Mississippi State University.
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Abdulai Jalloh hit 44" and Kyle Swanston hit 42" on their Max Vertical Jump tests, both Basketball players.
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Coach Werner will be speaking at the 2008 University of North Carolina Strength & Conditioning Coaches Clinic May 2-3. click here for more information.
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Kevin Conlogue, senior assistant strength & conditioning coach, has left JMU to move back home to Pheonix, AZ to pursue a career in private fitness. Kevin has done an exceptional job here at JMU and we will miss him. Thanks for all your dedicated hard work Kevin.
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Ben Cohen, Junior Assistant, has been given a graduate assistant job working for Coach Tommy Moffitt at LSU. Congratulations and Thank you for all your hard work at JMU Ben.
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Assistant Coach Andrew Roeder has been accepted to perform an internship at The U.S. Military Academy at West Point for the Spring Semester. 3/08
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Assistant Coach Ben Cohen has been accepted to perform an internship at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO for the Spring Semester. 12/07
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Lee Rowland,CSCS has been hired as Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach. Lee has been with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization for the past two years, and is a graduate of Iowa State University. 9/07
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Kevin Conlogue,MS,CSCS,SCCC has been promoted to Senior Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach. 8/07
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Steve Bamel,MS,CSCS,SCCC has left
JMU to work for the U.S. Olympic Committee
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Steve will work with previous JMU Assistants Zach Weatherford and Patrick
Borkowski (all great Coaches) Thanks
for 2 great years of excellent service at JMU, we will all miss you. 6/28/07
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Junior Assistant Coach, Ben Cohen has been chosen to serve as an intern with Coach Tommy Moffitt at LSU for the summer of 2007. 4/5/07
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Ben Cohen has been promoted from student assistant to Junior Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach. 2/1/07
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Coach Nathan Wehunt has accepted a position with the United States Sports Academy as a Strength & Conditioning Specialist. He will be moving to Bahrain the first week in February. We wish Nathan all the best.
Thanks for two good years at JMU. 1/30/07
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Coach Wehunt earned the NSCA CSCS certification. Congratulations Nathan. 12/30/06
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The Basketball weightroom in the Convocation center has 4 new Ferrari Flat screen monitors, all new rubber coated grip plates, new hex deadlift bars, and an updated Sports Nutrition station. 9/15/06
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Coach Werner was a team member presenting a 4 hour pre-conference symposium on Strength & Conditioning for Soccer at the NSCA National Conference, July 12, 2006 in Washington, D.C.
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The Collegiate Links Page has been updated, see below, left column.
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Coaches Werner and Conlogue, and student assistant Ben Cohen attended the NSCA National Conference in Washington, DC. July 12-15, 2006
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Coach Bamel earned the Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa) Strength & Conditioning Coach Certification. Congratulations Steve.
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Coaches Werner and Bamel attended the 2006 Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches association (CSCCa) National Conference in Salt Lake City, May 10-12.
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Kevin Conlogue,CSCS has been hired as Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach. Coach Conlogue is finishing his MS in Exercise Physiology at Marshall University were he has been a graduate assistant. He will begin at JMU August 10.
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The Godwin
218 weightroom is getting a facelift. 22 new
VR3 strength
training machines.
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Senior
Student Assistant, John Fleming has been chosen to serve as
an intern at the United States Olympic Training Center in
Colorado Springs this summer.
Congratulations
John!
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We have
ordered all new
STS racks and
benches for the Bridgeforth weightroom.
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Matt Green left JMU April 11, to be the Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at U.T. Chattanooga.
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Steve Bamel has been promoted to JMU Senior Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach.
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We are completing work on our sixth weightroom. It's located in the new Memorial Hall training facility. It's a 2,400 sq.ft. room that has a new Dodge rubber floor, 8 power racks and benches, and a 5 bench dumbbell area.
Congratulations to Graduate Student Assistant Rickey Jackson - Rickey completed his MS, moved to the U.S. Olympic Training Center in San Diego and completed a summer internship and is now the top Assistant at The College of Charleston.