Football
Sam Coad
- Title:
- Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach
Sam Coad was hired as an assistant strength and conditioning football coach on Sept. 19, 2014.
Coad comes to Ann Arbor from Brisbane, Australia, where he served as strength and conditioning coach and sport scientist with the Brisbane Lions Australian Rules Football Club. Coad also was a teaching fellow in the sports and exercise science program at Bond University. Prior to working with the Brisbane club, he completed strength and conditioning and sports science internships with the Gold Coast Titans Rugby League and Queensland Reds Rugby Union.
With the Wolverines, he will be responsible for assessing and enhancing student-athlete readiness, performance and recovery as part of the comprehensive sports performance program. Coad also will collect and interpret data obtained from football student-athletes during workouts, practices and games to provide training recommendations.
Coad earned a bachelor of sport sciences degree from Bond University, graduating with honors in 2012 after earning Dean[apos]s Awards in 2011 and 2012. He is a PhD candidate at Bond, researching the neuroimmunological, physiological and biochemical responses of elite contact sports athletes to training and competition.
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