MAC athletic departments list 81 strength and conditioning staff positions across 13 of the 13 covered schools as of 3 Nov 2026 — 4% of the conference's 1,990 tracked positions, an average of 6.2 per department that has the function. University of Massachusetts Amherst has the most (10). In the last 90 days Whistle detected 3 hires, 2 departures and 3 title changes in these roles.
Data as of 3 Nov 2026.
Source: the official athletics staff directories of the 13 covered MAC schools, re-read on a rolling schedule; roles classified from published titles; changes from successive reads.
One row per covered department. "Positions" counts current (non-departed) staff whose classified role or published title places them in strength & conditioning; changes are non-baseline hires, departures and title changes in those positions over the last 90 days, with same-day directory re-reads excluded.
| School | Division | Strength & conditioning positions | All tracked positions | Hires (90d) | Departures (90d) | Title changes (90d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | Division I | 10 | 189 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Miami University | Division I | 8 | 150 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ball State University | Division I | 7 | 163 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northern Illinois University | Division I | 7 | 133 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ohio University | Division I | 7 | 149 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| University at Buffalo | Division I | 7 | 160 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Western Michigan University | Division I | 7 | 158 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Eastern Michigan University | Division I | 6 | 164 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bowling Green State University | Division I | 5 | 144 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Central Michigan University | Division I | 5 | 151 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Akron | Division I | 5 | 130 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Toledo | Division I | 4 | 148 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kent State University | Division I | 3 | 151 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Strength & conditioning is the buying group for weight-room equipment, force plates and velocity-based-training systems, athlete-monitoring and GPS platforms, nutrition suppliers. Typical titles in this group: Director of Strength & Conditioning; Assistant Strength Coach; Head Olympic Sports Strength Coach. Whistle customers filter these positions by conference, school, state and sport, see each person's name, title and contact details where the directory publishes them, and get an alert when one of the positions changes hands.
Positions are counted from each person's published job title, classified into Whistle's role vocabulary (shared/staff-roles.ts); this group is the "strength_conditioning" role.
Change counts compare successive reads of each school's official directory; a school's first extraction and any day on which 25% or more of a roster appears or disappears at once (a re-read, not turnover) are excluded. This page is published when at least 3 covered MAC schools have the function and they list at least 10 positions between them; smaller combinations are kept out of search indexes.
81 current positions across 13 covered MAC athletic departments as of 3 Nov 2026; University of Massachusetts Amherst lists the most (10).
University of Massachusetts Amherst, with 10 strength and conditioning staff positions out of 189 tracked positions.
8 changes in the last 90 days: 3 hires, 2 departures, 3 title changes, after excluding first reads and same-day re-reads.
From the staff directories athletic departments publish on their official websites, read automatically on a rolling schedule (NCAA Division I roughly weekly, Division II and III every three to four weeks). Whistle never publishes names, emails or phone numbers on public pages; staff can remove their details at any time at gowhistle.io/remove-my-info.