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Strength & conditioning staff in the Southern Conference

Southern Conference athletic departments list 43 strength and conditioning staff positions across 10 of the 10 covered schools as of 3 Nov 2026 — 4% of the conference's 1,063 tracked positions, an average of 4.3 per department that has the function. Samford University has the most (8). In the last 90 days Whistle detected 4 hires, 1 departure and 2 title changes in these roles.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Source: the official athletics staff directories of the 10 covered Southern Conference schools, re-read on a rolling schedule; roles classified from published titles; changes from successive reads.

Strength & conditioning in the Southern Conference at a glance

Conference: Southern Conference — NCAA Division I
Schools covered: 10
Schools with strength & conditioning staff: 10 (100%)
Strength & conditioning positions: 43 (4% of 1,063 tracked positions)
Average per department with the function: 4.3
Changes, last 90 days: 4 hires · 1 departures · 2 title changes

How many strength and conditioning staff does each Southern Conference school have?

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)
Samford University	Division I	8	125	0	0	0
Furman University	Division I	7	122	0	0	0
Wofford College	Division I	6	103	0	0	0
Western Carolina University	Division I	5	117	1	0	0
Mercer University	Division I	4	140	1	0	0
The Citadel	Division I	4	89	2	1	2
East Tennessee State University	Division I	3	81	0	0	0
University of North Carolina at Greensboro	Division I	3	82	0	0	0
Virginia Military Institute	Division I	2	70	0	0	0
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	Division I	1	134	0	0	0

Who sells to strength and conditioning staff?

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.

Other staff functions in the Southern Conference

Ticketing in the Southern Conference — 15 positions at 9 schools
Marketing & fan experience in the Southern Conference — 18 positions at 10 schools
Communications & media relations in the Southern Conference — 33 positions at 10 schools
Compliance in the Southern Conference — 16 positions at 10 schools
Development & fundraising in the Southern Conference — 24 positions at 8 schools
Facilities & event operations in the Southern Conference — 30 positions at 9 schools
Video & analytics in the Southern Conference — 28 positions at 8 schools
Athletic training & sports medicine in the Southern Conference — 115 positions at 10 schools
Equipment in the Southern Conference — 15 positions at 9 schools

Strength & conditioning in other conferences

Strength & conditioning in the ACC — 18 schools
Strength & conditioning in the Big Ten — 18 schools
Strength & conditioning in the Lone Star — 16 schools
Strength & conditioning in the SEC — 16 schools
Strength & conditioning in the Big 12 — 15 schools
Strength & conditioning in the Carolinas — 15 schools
Strength & conditioning in the Great Lakes Valley — 15 schools
Strength & conditioning in the Atlantic 10 — 14 schools
Strength & conditioning in the Big Sky — 14 schools
Strength & conditioning in the CAA — 14 schools
Strength & conditioning in the California Collegiate Athletic Association — 14 schools
Strength & conditioning in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate — 14 schools

Method

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 Southern Conference schools have the function and they list at least 10 positions between them; smaller combinations are kept out of search indexes.

Frequently asked questions

How many strength and conditioning staff work in the Southern Conference?

43 current positions across 10 covered Southern Conference athletic departments as of 3 Nov 2026; Samford University lists the most (8).

Which Southern Conference school has the largest strength & conditioning staff?

Samford University, with 8 strength and conditioning staff positions out of 125 tracked positions.

How much turnover is there in Southern Conference strength & conditioning roles?

7 changes in the last 90 days: 4 hires, 1 departure, 2 title changes, after excluding first reads and same-day re-reads.

Where does this staff data come from?

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.

Selling to strength and conditioning staff in the Southern Conference? Whistle lists every one of these 43 positions with name and title, emails and phones where the directory publishes them, and an alert when one changes. Or buy the conference as a one-time dataset.