Southland athletic departments list 48 strength and conditioning staff positions across 11 of the 11 covered schools as of 3 Nov 2026 — 4% of the conference's 1,111 tracked positions, an average of 4.4 per department that has the function. University of the Incarnate Word has the most (9). In the last 90 days Whistle detected 1 hire, 3 departures and 0 title changes in these roles.
Data as of 3 Nov 2026.
Source: the official athletics staff directories of the 11 covered Southland 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 the Incarnate Word | Division I | 9 | 123 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Lamar University | Division I | 8 | 112 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| McNeese State University | Division I | 6 | 115 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | Division I | 6 | 121 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northwestern State University | Division I | 4 | 98 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Southeastern Louisiana University | Division I | 3 | 101 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Stephen F. Austin State University | Division I | 3 | 130 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi | Division I | 3 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Houston Christian University | Division I | 2 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nicholls State University | Division I | 2 | 80 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| University of New Orleans | Division I | 2 | 54 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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 Southland schools have the function and they list at least 10 positions between them; smaller combinations are kept out of search indexes.
48 current positions across 11 covered Southland athletic departments as of 3 Nov 2026; University of the Incarnate Word lists the most (9).
University of the Incarnate Word, with 9 strength and conditioning staff positions out of 123 tracked positions.
4 changes in the last 90 days: 1 hire, 3 departures, 0 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.