Assistant Director of Basketball Performance

Towson University (TU) is one of the nation’s top 100 public universities. Located north of Baltimore, TU currently enrolls over 19,000 students and is the second-largest university in the prestigious University System of Maryland.  Towson University fosters a climate that is grounded in respect to cultivate the intellectual and personal growth of the entire university community.

Under the supervision of the Director of Basketball Performance, the Assistant Director of Basketball Performance will lead, administer, and oversee the comprehensive strength and conditioning services for women’s basketball student athletes as well as additional teams assigned by the Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Performance. This position will serve as an integral member of the Athletic Department’s multidisciplinary Performance Team and will directly communicate and collaborate with head coaches, assistant strength and conditioning coaches, team physicians, athletic trainers, dietitian, sport psychologist, and other exercise science and allied health personnel to deliver comprehensive, practical, and evidence-based performance optimization strategies that foster an environment for injury prevention, performance enhancement, recovery, and reconditioning.

The Assistant Director of Basketball Performance will evaluate and supervise women’s basketball; create periodized strength and conditioning programs to reduce injury; facilitate comprehensive movement assessments; enhance total athlete performance; and ensure safe equipment usage. This position will also be responsible for travel duties with women’s basketball; the utilization of GPS monitoring systems to create daily/weekly GPS reports; conducting routine Bod Pod body composition assessments and weekly force plate assessments; and assisting in providing nutritional services. Emphasis will be placed on implementation, supervision, and teaching progressions for resistance training, cardiovascular, speed, plyometric, flexibility and functional movement, as well as maintaining accurate electronic records for each team and student-athlete to monitor progress. 

Responsibilities for the Assistant Director of Basketball Performance include the following:

• Designs and implements comprehensive year-round programming (movement assessments, speed, strength and conditioning) for the athletic development and enhancement of student-athletes; maintains accurate and timely electronic records for monitoring prescribed and completed program variables
• In coordination with the Sr. Associate Athletic Director for Sports Medicine and Performance and Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Performance, leads the development and implementation of comprehensive injury prevention, performance enhancement, and functional performance screening and testing; utilizes performance monitoring technology (e.g., body composition, force plates, NordBord, heart rate monitoring, GPS, sleep monitoring, velocity-based training modalities, etc.) as a tool to better plan and adjust training plans; continuously seeks continuing education opportunities and explores current tools and techniques; and utilizes evolving advances in technology to benefit and enhance each sport's training philosophy and serve the sport coach by providing specific and tangible information regarding athletes' physical status and abilities
• Works in conjunction with the Assistant Athletic Director of Sports Performance and sports medicine staff on collaborative performance screening on a yearly basis; serves as an advocate for the high-performance model within the Athletic Department for assigned teams; collaborates on rehabilitation p