John Patrick

    Youngstown native John Patrick returns to his hometown to assume duties as the Penguins' strength and conditioning coach. Patrick took over the YSU strength program in June 2008.
    Patrick handles the strength and conditioning duties for all 18 YSU athletic programs, working primarily with the football program on a daily basis.
    He is a National Strength and Conditioning Association certified strength coach. Patrick is also certified by the International Sports Science Association and the United States Weightlifting Association. He is also a member of the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association.
    Prior to coming to Youngstown, Patrick spent three years as head strength & conditioning coach for Division I Jacksonville University, where he is responsible for the strength and conditioning development of all 18 Dolphin athletic programs.
    Patrick went to Jacksonville in May 2004 after spending almost two years at Georgia Southern University, where he designed & implemented the strength and conditioning programs for women's soccer, women's track and field, men's tennis and men's golf, while assisting with football, baseball, women's volleyball and women's basketball. His development program covered all aspects of strength & conditioning including weight training, conditioning, flexibility and sports nutrition.
    Prior to joining the Georgia Southern staff, Patrick served as a volunteer assistant strength & conditioning coach at YSU, under former strength and conditioning coach Todd Burkey, and New Mexico State University. While at both universities he assisted in the design and implementation of programs for football, men's and women's basketball, softball and men's and women's track & field.
    Patrick also spent a year as a graduate assistant at The University of Texas at El Paso, designing programs for women's tennis, women's rifle & women's track & field, while assisting with football, women's volleyball, women's soccer & women's basketball.
    Prior to his experience in collegiate athletics, Patrick worked as a strength & conditioning intern with the Detroit Tigers Baseball Organization (Spring Training), before moving on to work with the Cleveland Indians  Minor League Team, the Class A Mahoning Valley Scrappers. While working in professional baseball, Patrick assisted in the development of pre-season and in-season strength and conditioning programs, working with specific athletes on warm-up, stretching, strength training and conditioning and nutrition.
    Patrick earned his bachelor's in exercise science from Mount Union College in 1999 and his masters in kinesiology from Georgia Southern in 2004.