D I-AA: Kyle Speer • Sam Houston State Kyle Speer has been the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Sam Houston State University for three years. He has one assistant coach, Brian Wiseman, working with him, and together the two are responsible for 16 sports with more than 350 athletes. In 2005 and 2006, Sam Houston State won the Commissioner’s Cup Championship Award, which is a performance-based award for the best overall athletic program in the Southland Conference. Speer and Wiseman take great pride in that award and they believe the rewards at the end start with the hard work in the beginning. “We want to improve athleticism using specific training methods, both in the weight room and on the conditioning field based upon sport, position, training age, etc.” he said. “We use ground based, multi-joint athletic movements with an emphasis on the Olympic lifts. Supplemental
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