The Strength Game

Matt Mitcheroney is the Associate Director of Olympic Sports Strength and Conditioning Coach as James Madison University working directly with the baseball and softball programs. Mitcheroney joined the staff in 2022 after serving as an assistant coach for three years at the United States Military Academy working with the hockey, men’s rugby, softball, and strength teams. Prior to joining West Point, he worked at American University for a year as well as had stops at UMass and Saint Francis in graduate positions. Mitcheroney also served as a soldier in the United States Army Reserves from 2011-2018 while also completing internships at Harvard, Army West Point, Boston University and Evolution Sports Performance. Mitcheroney stayed active as a Horizontal Construction soldier. Following his service, he has since shifted his athletic focus to competing in Olympic weightlifting.Samson EquipmentSamson Equipment provides Professional Weight Room Solutions for all your S&C needs.Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Andy Brown is a Sports Performance Coach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he oversees training for the men’s soccer, men’s and women’s swimming & diving, and tennis programs. Prior to arriving at UMass, Andy was a strength and conditioning coach at American University from 2019-2022.  Andy also worked at Franklin Pierce University for 2 years. First arriving in 2017 he spent his first season as an assistant before being promoted to head coach going into his second year. He also had previous stops as an intern at the University of Maryland in 2016, at James Madison University in 2014, as well as experience working at the high school level. Andy is an avid strength athlete and has previous experience competing in both powerlifting and Olympic weightlifting over his career. Samson EquipmentSamson Equipment provides Professional Weight Room Solutions for all your S&C needs.Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Gio Grassi is an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at Monmouth University where he is responsible for optimizing player readiness and performance through load management as well as implementing, analyzing, and interpreting all technology used with the Monmouth Football team, including Polar Heart Rate/GZPS system and Sparta Science Force Plates. He is also the head for programming strength speed/agility and conditioning programs for the baseball, men’s and women’s swim, and rowing teams. Before arriving at Monmouth, he was an assistant coach at Fordham University from 2018-2021 as well as assistant at Fairleigh Dickinson University from 2014-2017. Between those stops, he spent the 2017 season with the New York Giants as a strength and conditioning intern. Grassi got his start in the profession in 2010 as a strength coach and NFL combine preparatory coach at the Parisi’s Speed School, before working at Hackensack UMC Health and Wellness in NJ where he was the ACL return-to-sport coordinator spanning from 2015-2019. He’s also completed an internship working with the football program at Rutgers during the 2016-2017 seasons.In addition to his coaching, Grassi is the host of the “Toes on the Line” Podcast. He has presented at conferences, most recently the NSCA New Jersey State Clinic and has written multiple articles for his own website as well as Stack.com. Grassi is a former college football player at Delaware State University and continues to train during his downtime.Samson EquipmentSamson Equipment provides Professional Weight Room Solutions for all your S&C needs.Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Anthony Paradis is the Performance Dietitian for the US Army at Fort Jackson, SC. Paradis has spent time in multiple sectors of the sport nutrition space. Prior to taking his current role with the US Army’s H2F program in early 2023 he was the director of Olympic sports nutrition at the University of South Carolina from 2021-2023 and the director of sports nutrition at Tennessee Tech for 5 years from 2016-2021. Before entering the collegiate realm, he spent 8 years in the private space. He was a dietary technician at Lewisville Medical Center, a nutrition instructor in the school of human ecology at South Carolina, dietetic intern at Texas Woman’s University, and personal trainer. His time in the private sector culminated as the owner of “Food and Fitness LLC” where he built a six-figure and three-employee business from the ground up. Food & Fitness LLC, was Texas’s premier fitness training and nutrition studio where Paradis was both a private practice RD and personal trainer for over six years. In addition to his businesses, registered dietician work, and personal training, Paradis is himself an athlete in multiple different ventures. He’s tried his hand in many different strength sports, endurance-based sports and more. He is both a Tennessee state and Texas state record holder powerlifter, has completed a solo 500-mile consecutive hike on the Colorado trail in 2015, and has competed on American Ninja Warrior in 2012, in addition to continuing to be an avid strength lifter. Samson EquipmentSamson Equipment provides Professional Weight Room Solutions for all your S&C needs.Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Jimmy Stitz is the Head Olympic Strength and Conditioning Coach at Utah State University. Stitz joined Utah State in 2021 after spending the previous eight seasons as an athletic performance coach for USA Volleyball Women’s Senior National Team. He began his first season with the program as a seasonal assistant in 2014 through their mentorship program and took over the team the following year prior to their 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil where the team earned a bronze medal. In 2020 at the Summer Olympic Games, played in 2021 in Japan, the team won the gold medal. Stitz first started coaching as a volunteer assistant strength coach from 2009-2011 at his alma mater, Minnesota State University. From there he became the first-ever head strength and conditioning coach for Charter Oak High School in Covina, CA. He was then selected to serve as an assistant coach through the National Strength and Conditioning Association assistantship program in 2013 before interning at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, CA, prior to joining the national team. Stitz continues to train as a coach. He is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu blue belt and enjoys lifting and training on the mat in his free time.  Samson EquipmentSamson Equipment provides Professional Weight Room Solutions for all your S&C needs.Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Ryan Metzger is the Assistant Director of Olympic Sports Performance at the University of Tennessee where she is directly responsible for the strength and conditioning efforts for women’s soccer and women’s tennis as well as having direct oversight of all volunteer interns. Metzger arrived at Tennessee in 2022 after spending the previous three seasons at Clemson University as their senior assistant strength and conditioning coach where she was in charge of softball, women’s soccer and the volunteer interns. From 2015-2019 she served as an assistant sports performance coach at Virginia Commonwealth University. Metzger’s first role was as an intern coach at her alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 2011. She then went on to the University of Kentucky as a volunteer the following season working with their Olympic staff prior to being promoted to graduate assistant from 2012-2014. She also spent time as an intern strength coach working with the Kentucky football team in 2015.Metzger has been featured on many other sports performance and coaching podcast, has written articles for SimpliFaster and TeamBuildr, as well as being awarded the 2022 NSCA Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year.A former gymnast at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Metzger continued to stay competitive in athletics following her collegiate career competing in Olympic Weightlifting. She has been competing on the national stage since 2012 and has earned a handful of National medals, with her best competition finish at the 2018 American Open Finals earning 2nd in the snatch and 3rd in total as well as most recently taking bronze in the 49kg class at the 2023 Senior National Championships. She has competed as a 53kg, 55kg and now in the 49kg class she frequently ranks among the top 5 in the nation for her respective weight class. Samson EquipmentSamson Equipment provides Professional Weight Room Solutions for all your S&C needs.Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Chris Slater is a teacher at Baldwin County board of education in Alabama as well as wrestling coach. He has been teaching and coaching for over 13 years. Slater took a break for teaching in the high school setting to be a gym owner, personal trainer and strength coach at Alabama Strength before returning to high school coaching and teaching. He has also been an independent professional trainer at Results Gym in Gulf Shores, AL and at Fairhope Fitness in Fairhope, AL. In addition to his dual roles coaching and teaching, Slater is the Alabama State Chair for Strongman Corporation and current NSCA Strongman Special Interest Group Chair.Slater is a former collegiate wrestler competing for four seasons at Eastern Michigan University. Since his time competing on the mat, he has been heavily involved in strength training and is both a National level MW strongman competitor with Strongman Corporation and powerlifter in the USAPL. Samson EquipmentSamson Equipment provides Professional Weight Room Solutions for all your S&C needs.Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Bobby O’Mullan is the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at Rollins College as well as Performance Specialist at Spectrum Performance in Orlando, FL. Starting at Rollins in 2021, O’Mullan arrived from nearby UCF where he served as an adjunct instructor in the kinesiology department from 2017-2021 teaching courses in exercise science and strength and conditioning. In 2019 he served as a football sports performance intern at UCF before being elevated to assistant sports performance coach leading the cheer and men’s soccer programs for the 2020-2021 season, in addition to his teaching responsibilities. O’Mullan has held multiple other positions outside of the collegiate coaching realm, including being a strength and conditioning coach at Optimal Performance Training Center in Orlando, FL for one year, serving in a variety of roles at Spectrum Performance and Physical Therapy since 2016, coach at Alpha Knights CrossFit from 2016-2017 and both weight room supervisor and group exercise instructor at his alma mater, Loyola University Chicago. He got his start in the coaching world first interning at Loyola University Chicago in 2013 and has also interned with VCU Athletics in 2017. He was a graduate assistant with the UCF’s Recreation and Wellness Center from 2015-2017 while pursuing his master’s degree. The club football Founder & President at Loyola University Chicago he played 4 years on the team as well as a season of semiprofessional football with the Leyden Lions. Since then he is still heavily involved in lifting and training. A true hybrid athlete, O’Mullan has competed in powerlifting, CrossFit, triathlons, flag football tournaments and recently a relay half ironman. Samson EquipmentSamson Equipment provides Professional Weight Room Solutions for all your S&C needs.Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Jon Heck is a Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Houston Texans. First arriving with the Texans in 2023, he spent the previous 5 years at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina, as an assistant football strength and conditioning coach. Concurrent to his work on the Tar Heel’s strength staff, he served as a strength and conditioning coach and nutritionist at D1 Sports Training in Raleigh, NC since 2018. Heck got his start in the coaching profession interning under Joe Kenn and his staff at the Carolina Panthers for the off-season and 2017 football season. Heck is a former four-year starter and 2x All-ACC selection at right tackle for the University of North Carolina football team. Following his collegiate career, he shifted his training to the platform and has been competing competitively at both strongman and powerlifting. Samson EquipmentSamson Equipment provides Professional Weight Room Solutions for all your S&C needs.Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Grant Broggi is a Marine Officer, owner of The Strength Co., Starting Strength Coach and a member of the Starting Strength Seminar staff. Working in multiple other industries initially, Broggi joined the Marine Corps in 2012 and commissioned as an Artillery Officer the following year. Over the course of his nearly twelve year career in the service, he has moved up the ranks and has held many different roles. While at The Citadel and early into his military career, he learned the benefits and importance of strength training. Grant took his own experience and principles from Starting Strength, to first implement them as a young Lieutenant with his platoon. Seeing the impact it made on his Marines, this eventually led him to training civilians in his home garage gym before officially opening the doors to The Strength Co. in 2017, which now has two locations in Southern California. Broggi found a need for equipment for his gyms. He sought out to bring back quality manufacturing of Olympic weight plates to America and in 2020, he did did just that, producing their first line of high quality, American Made iron plates under The Strength Co. brand. Today, the company has expanded to offer a range of training products including plates, barbells, weight trees, collars, mats and more. All of which are Made in the USA.Alongside coaching in-person at the gyms two locations, Grant provides live online coaching as a Starting Strength Coach. He has competed in powerlifting and is still an avid lifter and strength athlete. He boasts personal best lifts of 500lb squat, 265lb press, 360lb bench press, and a 560lb deadlift. Samson EquipmentSamson Equipment provides Professional Weight Room Solutions for all your S&C needs.Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show