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Madison Power News Archives

We have three new sets of the UCS G2 Plyosafe Plyometric Boxes 6"-60" being built

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CONGRATULATIONS to Coach Callye Williams for Winning the 2008 John Stucky Award, for Outstanding Performance on the practical portion of the CSCCa Certification Examination.

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Callye Williams has accepted the position of Senior Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach. Coach Williams comes to JMU from Mississippi State University.

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Abdulai Jalloh hit 44" and Kyle Swanston hit 42" on their Max Vertical Jump tests, both Basketball players.

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Click here to see pictures of the Basketball Sports Nutrition Station located in the basketball weightroom

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Coach Werner will be speaking at the 2008 University of North Carolina Strength & Conditioning Coaches Clinic May 2-3. click here for more information. 

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Kevin Conlogue, senior assistant strength & conditioning coach, has left JMU to move back home to Pheonix, AZ to pursue a career in private fitness.  Kevin has done an exceptional job here at JMU and we will miss him.  Thanks for all your dedicated hard work Kevin.

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Ben Cohen, Junior Assistant, has been given a graduate assistant job working for Coach Tommy Moffitt at LSU.  Congratulations and Thank you for all your hard work at JMU Ben.

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Assistant Coach Andrew Roeder has been accepted to perform an internship at The U.S. Military Academy at West Point for the Spring Semester.  3/08

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Assistant Coach Ben Cohen has been accepted to perform an internship at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO for the Spring Semester.  12/07

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Lee Rowland,CSCS has been hired as Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach.  Lee has been with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization for the past two years, and is a graduate of Iowa State University. 9/07

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Kevin Conlogue,MS,CSCS,SCCC has been promoted to Senior Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach.  8/07

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Steve Bamel,MS,CSCS,SCCC has left JMU to work for the U.S. Olympic Committee. Steve will work with previous JMU Assistants Zach Weatherford and Patrick Borkowski (all great Coaches)  Thanks for 2 great years of excellent service at JMU, we will all miss you. 6/28/07

 

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Junior Assistant Coach, Ben Cohen has been chosen to serve as an intern with Coach Tommy Moffitt at LSU for the summer of 2007.  4/5/07

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Ben Cohen has been promoted from student assistant to Junior Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach.  2/1/07

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Coach Nathan Wehunt has accepted a position with the United States Sports Academy as a Strength & Conditioning Specialist.  He will be moving to Bahrain the first week in February.  We wish Nathan all the best. 

Thanks for two good years at JMU.  1/30/07

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Coach Wehunt earned the NSCA CSCS certification. Congratulations Nathan. 12/30/06

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The Basketball weightroom in the Convocation center has 4 new Ferrari Flat screen monitors, all new rubber coated grip plates, new hex deadlift bars, and an updated Sports Nutrition station. 9/15/06

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Coach Werner was a team member presenting a 4 hour pre-conference symposium on Strength & Conditioning for Soccer at the NSCA National Conference, July 12, 2006 in Washington, D.C.

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The Collegiate Links Page has been updated, see below, left column.

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Coaches Werner and Conlogue, and student assistant Ben Cohen attended the NSCA National Conference in Washington, DC.  July 12-15, 2006

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Coach Bamel earned the Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa) Strength & Conditioning Coach Certification.  Congratulations Steve.

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Coach Werner is one of six finalists for the 2006 NSCA Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Professional of The Year Award.

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Coaches Werner and Bamel attended the 2006 Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches association (CSCCa) National Conference in Salt Lake City, May 10-12.

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Kevin Conlogue,CSCS has been hired as Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach.  Coach Conlogue is finishing his MS in Exercise Physiology at Marshall University were he has been a graduate assistant. He will begin at JMU August 10.

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The Godwin 218 weightroom is getting a facelift.  22 newCybex LogoVR3 strength training machines.

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Senior Student Assistant, John Fleming has been chosen to serve as an intern at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs this summer.  Congratulations John! 

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We have ordered all new STS racks and benches for the Bridgeforth weightroom.

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Matt Green left JMU April 11, to be the Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at U.T. Chattanooga.

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Steve Bamel has been promoted to JMU Senior Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach.

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We are completing work on our sixth weightroom. It's located in the new Memorial Hall training facility.  It's a 2,400 sq.ft. room that has a new Dodge rubber floor, 8 power racks and benches, and a 5 bench dumbbell area.