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Job overview

Area of Responsibility
Sports Performance
Type
Full-Time
Location
Durango, Colorado

Sports Performance Coach

Fort Lewis CollegeFull-TimeDurango, CO

Performance Coach will develop and manage effective individual and team sports performance programs for student-athletes participating in FLC’s NCAA Division II intercollegiate athletic program.

Essential Functions:

  • Develop sport-specific, comprehensive training programs that are scientifically based, and involve periodized/cycled regimens of exercises and drills to optimize strength, power, flexibility, mobility, agility, speed, and/or work capacity designed to enhance sports performance and decrease the incidence of non-contact injuries.

  • Oversee specific teams as assigned by the Assistant AD - Sports Performance / Wellness.

  • Demonstrate and implement safe, effective, and proven exercise techniques at each training session and deliver programs in an organized manner using the field’s best practices.

  • Collaborate with the Wellness & Nutrition Coach to help educate assigned sports teams.

  • Facilitate a collaborative relationship among sport coaches, sports medicine, wellness coaches, and the sports performance staff.
    Develop systems for tracking athlete progress and attendance in assigned sports teams.

  • Adhere to all FLC, RMAC, and NCAA guidelines and policies, and provide student-athletes with an exceptional collegiate experience while competing for championships.

  • Employ effective communication skills to establish relationships and conduct work at a high level with a wide range of constituents (coaches, student-athletes, administrators, etc.).

  • Enforce the Skyhawks Sports Performance standards and expectations to assigned sports teams.

  • Other duties as assigned.