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Young caters to all varsity teams with new role
By Chris Losey
On April 10, 2013
The Buffalo State athletics department hired Nate Young as head strength and conditioning
coach in January, bringing 10 years of experience in strength and conditioning to the athletics
program.
Young is responsible for creating specific workouts for the 19 varsity teams on campus, which
consists of around 400 student-athletes. Being the lone strength and conditioning coach with so
many student-athletes, the position has had its challenges the first few months.
"The biggest challenge is running workouts for 19 teams and luckily men's and women's
basketball are two teams with the same or very similar workouts, so I pair (the workout plans)
up," Young said.
Jeff Ventura, sports information director and chair of national searches to fill vacant positions in
the athletics department, said that Young was chosen for the position because he had a unique
background. The hiring made Young the first full-time head strength and conditioning coach on
campus.
"Nate brought an interesting background and prior experiences in collegiate strength and
conditioning, which is important, and working with multiple sports," Ventura said. "It gave him a
diverse background."
Young started working as an intern for Binghamton University in upstate New York for four
months after attending Liberty University, where he participated on the football and track and
field teams. He said he received a great amount of hands-on experience during the internship,
along with gaining leadership skills needed as a coach.
After his internship, he was an assistant strength coach at Florida International University
and the strength and conditioning coach for the Murray State University men's and women's
basketball teams.
Prior to getting hired by Buffalo State, Young spent the last two years working as a civilian
musculoskeletal action team coach with the U.S. Army at Fort Sill in Lawton, Okla. There, Young
primarily worked with the physical therapy team, helping injured soldiers with physical exercise,
stretching and core workouts.
Although he does not use military workouts for the training programs on campus, his experience
helped him grow as a coach.
"Learning how to be more authoritative and running the workouts in the fashion the Army did
it is definitely helping me now," Young said. "And being more vocal than I had in the past and
definitely a little more structure."
Young's workout plans are very specific to the individual, which gives student-athletes the
opportunity to make themselves bigger, stronger and faster, according to Ventura.
There is a growing trend that more student-athletes are committed to their respective sports
year-round and with Young, the student-athletes can get more structure to their workout plans.
To accommodate that trend, Young holds optional open sessions to work on specific workouts
during the student-athletes' offseasons in an attempt to improve their play.
Young has already implemented new offseason workouts for the football team. Sophomore
kicker Alex Debbins said he appreciates how specific the workouts are to each position on the
team and that proper technique is enforced.
"I like that (the workouts) are very specific with the weights we have to use," Debbins said. "He
calculates the percentages to be very specific on what we should use."
Chris Losey can be reached by email at losey.record@live.com.
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