Coach Jon Hersel from York High school, Coach Hersel has coached at many different schools and many different levels and has taken away some great experiences from each. He is starting his 2nd year at York high school and has already taken the program to new heights. York High school is a 4AAAA high school located in York, SC. Here is a quick bio about Jon Hersel:
Coach Hersel is a graduated from Jamestown college located in North Dakota in 2000, then went on to be a an strength intern at Miami, a grad assistant at LSU and a grad assistant at Mississippi. He then got the position of head strength coach at Baldwin county high school located in Alabama before being an assistant strength & condition coach at the university of south Alabama. Coach Hersel trained the athletes for 3 years before getting the head strength coach position at York high in August of 2014.
Jon is a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) through the NSCA. He also has his USAW certifcation as well as his USATF. (USA track and Field)
Contact Coach Hersel at:
twitter: @jonhersel
Facebook: Jon Hersel
Email: jhersel@york.k12.sc.us
My info:
My name is Dane Nelson. I am a former college and high school strength coach. I created this podcast for strength coaches at any level but more specifically for High School Strength Coaches. I want strength coaches to be able to connect to each other and learn more about the growing field of full time high school strength coaching. Thanks for checking out the website. It would be great to connect with other strength coaches and talk about what works and what doesn’t work when training high school athletes. This is why I created this podcast. I hope you find it useful and valuable!
Website: www.hsstrengthcoach.com
Contact me at hsstrengthcoach365@gmail.com
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Westside High school has an awesome strength program with Coach Arron Cottingham. He talks about Ram Strength & Conditioning and some of the great successes he has had so far. He is currently in his 3rd year at Westside and they have had a great summer training program. Here is a little about Coach Cottingham.
Coach Cottingham started as a sports performance coach at Velocity sports for 3 years before moving on to teaching and coaching football and basketball at west oak middle school over near Clemson, SC. After leaving West oak he went on to Westside high school where he has been for 3 years serving as director of player development and the outside linebackers coach. Coach Cottingham holds his CSCS through the NSCA, he is a Certified specialist in speed and explosion with NASE and he is a level 1 USA weightlifting coach through USAW.
Contact Coach Cottingham at:
twitter: @coach_c_23
Facebook: Aaron Cottingham
Email: aaroncottingham@anderson5.net
Westside Athletics: http://goo.gl/jmNZfW
My info:
My name is Dane Nelson. I am a former college and high school strength coach. I created this podcast for strength coaches at any level but more specifically for High School Strength Coaches. I want strength coaches to be able to connect to each other and learn more about the growing field of full time high school strength coaching. Thanks for checking out the website. It would be great to connect with other strength coaches and talk about what works and what doesn’t work when training high school athletes. This is why I created this podcast. I hope you find it useful and valuable!
Website: www.hsstrengthcoach.com
Contact me at hsstrengthcoach365@gmail.com
Thank you so much for listening and I would appreciate it greatly if you could leave a 5 star review in iTunes as this really helps boost the show rankings and spread the word about the High School Strength Coach Podcast. That way other Strength Coaches like yourself can find the show and benefit from it too.
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Kevin Kaga from Marlboro County, and we talk today about how his training has helped the players develop both physically and mentally for life.
Here is a little background on Coach Kaga.
Coach K received his bachelors and masters in education from Western Carolina University and then also received a second Masters in Education from South Carolina state university. He became a grad assistant strength coach at Appalachian state university in 1984. Coach K got his start in coaching at Conway high school with Chuck Jordan in 1987. He then moved on to North Myrtle Beach high school for 5 years. After North Myrtle beach he coached at Sumter high school for 7 years before making his current stop at Marlboro county for the last 13 years. Coach Kaga was just the 2nd person in the state of South Carolina to be hired strictly for strength and conditioning of high school athletes.
Coach K has so much knowledge in the strength & conditioning field and has been able to change so many student athlete lives. He is very involved with the South Carolina strength coaches association, strength meets, and just trying to help every athlete and strength coach out there just get better.
Contact Coach Kaga:
email: kkrock1@aol.com
Facebook page: first name: SChighschool last name: strengthcoachesassociation
My info:
My name is Dane Nelson. I am a former college and high school strength coach. I created this podcast for strength coaches at any level but more specifically for High School Strength Coaches. I want strength coaches to be able to connect to each other and learn more about the growing field of full time high school strength coaching. Thanks for checking out the website. It would be great to connect with other strength coaches and talk about what works and what doesn’t work when training high school athletes. This is why I created this podcast. I hope you find it useful and valuable!
Website: www.hsstrengthcoach.com
Contact me at hsstrengthcoach365@gmail.com
Thank you so much for listening and I would appreciate it greatly if you could leave a 5 star review in iTunes as this really helps boost the show rankings and spread the word about the High School Strength Coach Podcast. That way other Strength Coaches like yourself can find the show and benefit from it too.
Thank you very much if you have already left a rating and feedback, I appreciate it greatly!
AC Flora in Columbia, South Carolina. Coach Micah Kurtz is in his 7th year at AC Flora and has had great success with the building and developing of his strength program and has really built a great athletic culture there. He goes to sleep every night thinking he has to be ready to be able to train the athletes the next day because they are relying on him to get them better. And he lives up to that motivation factor for sure!
Here is a little bio on Coach Micah Kurtz:
Micah Kurtz is in his 7th year as the Director of Strength and Conditioning at AC Flora high school in Columbia, South Carolina. In his role, Coach Kurtz has developed the school’s first ever school wide strength and conditioning program and created a school wide culture of vitality and fitness which includes not only student-athletes, but also the faculty, staff, parents and community.
In the past year, AC Flora was named the #1 athletic program in the Columbia metropolitan area by the State Newspaper. The baseball team has won 3 straight state championships; the basketball team won the state championship in 2014 and was upper state champions in 2015. The football team tied the school record for wins and won the region championship in 2015. It has won the region championship in 3 of the past 4 years and Coach Kurtz also serves as the team’s Associate Head Coach/Special Team’s Coordinator/Linebacker’s Coach. The boy’s soccer team won its first ever state championship. and the golf team has won 5 straight state championships.
Additionally, Coach Kurtz is the Strength and Conditioning Consultant Coach to the high school basketball power house Oak Hill Academy. The Oak Hill Basketball team is currently 45-0 and ranked #1 in the Nation.
Here is a short video STACK magazine did about Coach Kurtz and our Strength program:
http://www.stack.com/video/4003103505001/stack-impact-ac-flora-high-school/
Coach Kurtz has taken on the duty of overseeing Richland School District One’s new district wide strength and conditioning program. For this duty, Coach Kurtz presented at the Richland One Coaches Convocation and at multiple Athletic Director’s meetings.
Coach Kurtz took 50 athletes to the Region Speed and Strength Meet and 11 of them medaled. AC Flora had 5 athletes come in first place in their weight class and had a clean sweep of the 150 lb. division by winning 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. Of Flora’s 11 athletes that qualified, 9 were in the varsity division. At the State Meet, AC Flora was the ONLY school in the state with two varsity champions.
Coach Kurtz also organized the first ever Richland One Intra District Speed and Strength Combine and hosted South Carolina’s 2nd annual Female Speed and Strength Meet. At this meet AC Flora had 2 overall weight class winners and 4 other athletes came in the top 3. There were only 5 weight classes at this meet.
This past year, Coach Kurtz was named the State Director of the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s (NSCA) South Carolina Chapter. He was also named a member of the NSCA's Subject Matter Expert Committee to create a new NSCA certification. This group of 15 individuals is some of the most respected and well known fitness professionals in the country.
Coach Kurtz spoke at the Nike Coach of the Year Clinics in Atlanta and Orlando, the NSCA’s South Carolina State Clinic and the PGC/Glazier Basketball Clinic in Charlotte. Coach Kurtz will also be presenting at the South Carolina Coaches Conference in July.
Coach Kurtz is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), a USA Weight Lifting Sport’s Performance Certified Coach (USAW), a Functional Movement Screen Specialist (FMS), a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) and a Speed and Explosion Specialist (NASE).
Contact Coach Micah Kurtz here:
Email: kurtzmicah@gmail.com
twitter: @kurtzm3
instagram: @kurtzm3
Check out his 12 week vertical jump program here:
website: www.theathletemaker.com
My info:
My name is Dane Nelson. I am a former college and high school strength coach. I created this podcast for strength coaches at any level but more specifically for High School Strength Coaches. I want strength coaches to be able to connect to each other and learn more about the growing field of full time high school strength coaching. Thanks for checking out the website. It would be great to connect with other strength coaches and talk about what works and what doesn’t work when training high school athletes. This is why I created this podcast. I hope you find it useful and valuable!
Website: www.hsstrengthcoach.com
Contact me at hsstrengthcoach365@gmail.com
Thank you so much for listening and I would appreciate it greatly if you could leave a 5 star review in iTunes as this really helps boost the show rankings and spread the word about the High School Strength Coach Podcast. That way other Strength Coaches like yourself can find the show and benefit from it too.
Thank you very much if you have already left a rating and feedback, I appreciate it greatly!
Fred Eaves from Battle Ground Academy in Franklin TN is on the show today. Coach Eaves has been named the national strength & conditioning coach of the year for 2015. He has done some amazing things with his athletes and he continues to change athletes lives every single day he trains. I was able to talk to him at the Sorinex Summer Strong 8 Clinic held at the University of South Carolina.
Here is his bio:
Fred Eaves is currently in his 4th year as the strength and conditioning coach at Battle Ground Academy in Franklin, Tennessee. He is certified through the NSCA as a CSCS and RSCC. He is also certified through USA Weightlifting and USA Track and Field. He has 17 years of experience that includes coaching at LSU, Tennessee, and Tennessee-Chattanooga. Eaves has been the strength and conditioning coach for multiple state champions in various sports as well of hundreds of college signees. He was voted the 2015 NSCA High School Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year as well as the 2013 Samson Equipment and American Football Monthly High School Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year. Eaves is a STACK Expert contributor for topics in strength and conditioning and sport psychology, and he has a monthly blog about strength and conditioning on the American Football Monthly website. Eaves is a prominent speaker and presenter in the field of strength and conditioning.
Coach Eaves helped the football team win 3 football state championships at 2 different schools, and reach state finals at 3 different schools. And in recently with Olympic sports he helped boys basketball become state champs as well as boys soccer and girls soccer wining state and baseball making it to the final four in state.
Contact Coach Eaves for questions on training at
Facebook: Fred Eaves
Twitter @coacheaves
Email: fred.eaves@mybga.org
Cell: 865-335-5757
My info:
My name is Dane Nelson. I am a former college and high school strength coach. I created this podcast for strength coaches at any level but more specifically for High School Strength Coaches. I want strength coaches to be able to connect to each other and learn more about the growing field of full time high school strength coaching. Thanks for checking out the website. It would be great to connect with other strength coaches and talk about what works and what doesn’t work when training high school athletes. This is why I created this podcast. I hope you find it useful and valuable!
Website: www.hsstrengthcoach.com
Contact me at hsstrengthcoach365@gmail.com
Thank you so much for listening and I would appreciate it greatly if you could leave a 5 star review in iTunes as this really helps boost the show rankings and spread the word about the High School Strength Coach Podcast. That way other Strength Coaches like yourself can find the show and benefit from it too.
Thank you very much if you have already left a rating and feedback, I appreciate it greatly!