Legends of the game
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Strength & Conditioning Legends – John williams Jr.
02/22/26 John Williams begins his first season as the Assistant AD for Sports Performance at Alabama A&M University. Williams has extensive experience at various levels of athletics. He’s worked with numerous teams, including those at the collegiate and professional levels, and is recognized for his expertise in speed, agility, power, and strength training. Before coming to The Hill,…
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Strength & conditioning legends – jeff “mad dog” madden
02/22/26 Jeff Madden, who has been honored by his peers as one of the nation’s leading authorities on physical development, is in his 16th year as the assistant athletics director for strength and conditioning at The University of Texas. He was inducted into the USA Strength and Conditioning Coaches Hall of Fame in June 2003,…
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sport science legends – dr. michael h. stone
02/15/26 Michael H. Stone PhD is currently the Exercise and Sports Science Laboratory Director and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at ETSU. Prior to joining ETSU he was the Head of Sports Physiology for the USOC. From 1999 through 2001 he was Chair of Sport at Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland.…
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sport science legends – dr. andrew c. fry
02/15/26 Andrew C. Fry is a professor in the Department of Health, Sport & Exercise Sciences at the University of Kansas. He received his degrees from Nebraska Wesleyan University, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Penn State University. During his two-year post-doctoral training, he studied cellular and molecular muscle physiology at Ohio University. This was followed…
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sport science legends – yuri verkoshansky
02/15/26 Professor Yuri Verkhoshansky is predominantly known to most westerner readers as the Russian researcher who invented plyometric training (Shock Method). Many coaches and sport scientists around the world, however, recognize Y.Verkhoshansky as a prominent figure in the field of explosive strength training, one of the greatest experts in the theory of sports training whose…
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Sport Science legends – vladmir zatsiorsky
02/15/26 Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky, PhD, is a world-renowned expert in the biomechanics of human motion. He has been a professor in the department of kinesiology at Pennsylvania State University since 1991 and was a director of the university’s biomechanics laboratory. Before coming to North America in 1990, Dr. Zatsiorsky served for 18 years as professor and…