Tommy Christian is the co-owner and director of training for TCBOOST, a sports performance training facility specializing in the development of game speed and power for athletes of virtually every sport. Their state-of-the-art 5,700 sq. ft. indoor center opened its doors in August ‘08. His company is contracted by the Glenbrook School District to run the strength and conditioning programs for Glenbrook North and Glenbrook South High Schools.

He has been directing the speed and conditioning program for Northwestern University’s football team for 7+ years, and consulting in the speed development of all NU’s athletic programs. His work also involves an NFL Combine Preparation training program, the training of current NFL players trying to gain an edge in the off-season, high school football, softball and basketball speed programs, and individual work with a wide array of athletes.

Tommy is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist with the NSCA and is the former Assistant Director of Strength & Conditioning for Northwestern University.

Dennis Kline has been the Strength Center Director at the University of Wisconsin @ La Crosse since 1998 and Assistant Track coach from ’98-’07. During his track coaching tenure Kline coached 10 individual national champions in the throwing events while the team won 10 NCAA National Champions Championships. Kline and Andrew Rock (’04 4X400m Olympic Gold Medalist) in ’06 started www.usathlete.net to provide organized strength and conditioning services for maximal performance. Prior, Kline was at Oxford Chiropractic Center, owner Dave Zipko in Oxford, Ohio. He also serves as the Chairman for the College Strength and Conditioning Professionals.

As a Track & Field athlete (hammer thrower), Kline trained with Jud Logan (four-time Olympian and former American Record holder) and was ranked in the top 50 in the U.S. for a decade (‘87-‘97) and competed in the ’96 U.S. Olympic Trials. Kline received his Bachelor’s degree in 1990 and Master’s degree in 1992 from Miami University (Ohio). His graduate assistantship supervisor was Dan Dalrymple, current Strength and Conditioning Head Coach with the New Orleans Saints.

Nineteen-year coaching veteran Joe Kenn was named the strength and conditioning coach at the University of Louisville on January 4, 2008. Kenn joins the Louisville staff after spending seven seasons at Arizona State University, including five as head coach of ASU's Sports Performance program. Originally named ASU's head strength and conditioning coach for football in January, 2001, Kenn came to ASU after serving as the director of strength and conditioning at the University of Utah from 1999 -2000.

A member of the NSCA and AFCA, Kenn was the head strength and conditioning coach at Boise State from 1994-99, but spent nine years total at Boise State (1991-99). His first coaching assignment came as an assistant football and strength coach at Pine Crest Preparatory School in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (1989-1990). He then became the assistant strength and conditioning coach at Wake Forest University in 1991.

Kenn was named the College Strength and Conditioning Professional of the Year in 2002 and has been a finalist for the award four times during his career. He also earned conference recognition in 1998 (Big West Conference) and again in 2000 (Mountain West Conference). Kenn earned his Bachelor of Science degree in health and sports science from Wake Forest in 1988 and his strength and conditioning specialist certification in 1990. He then earned his Master of Arts degree in curriculum and instruction from Boise State in 1993.

Jed C. Smith joined UNI's staff as strength and conditioning coach in June of 2005. Prior to coming to the Cedar Valley, he was the explosive strength training coach for the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL. He also assisted the Minnesota Wild of the NHL, the Minnesota Thunder of the United Soccer League and Penn State football in an effort to incorporate explosive strength training into their individual programs.

Beginning in June of 2002, he was an exercise and sports science instructor at Dakota County Technical College in Rosemount, Minn. He also served as the Minnesota USA Weightlifting Regional Training Center director. He had several coaching assignments at Rosemount High School, including ninth grade boy's basketball and wrestling, starting in 1996. He served as Rosemount's strength training and conditioning coach for all sports from 1997-2002, was head boy's tennis coach from 2000-02, and coached the school's Olympic weight lifting from 1999-2002.

Smith is very active in the community, having worked on bringing an Olympic Development Center to the City of Waterloo. In July of 2007, Smith, UNI, Cedar Valley Medical, XL Acceleration and members of the Cedar Valley community opened a non-profit training center with the goal of developing athletes from the grass-roots level up to elite status, eventually to compete and National and World levels in the Sports of Weightlifting and Tae Kwon Do.

Named to his current position on January 22, 2004, Mike Clark joined the Seahawks in his first stint in the National Football League after 24 years of service coaching collegiate athletes in strength, conditioning and nutrition.

Clark came to Seattle from Texas A&M, where he spent 14 seasons as the head strength and conditioning coach, adding the title of assistant athletic director in 2000. During his tenure with the Aggies, Clark helped develop current Seahawks defensive lineman Rocky Bernard (1997-01) and Seahawks’ linebackers coach Zerick Rollins.

A 2003 inductee into the USA Strength and Conditioning Coaches Hall of Fame, Clark was twice named Strength Coach of the Year in 1993 and 2000. Also in 2000, he was the president of the Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association.

During Seattle’s Super Bowl XL run in 2005, his regimen earned the “Colonel” American Football Monthly’s NFL Strength & Conditioning Coach of the Year award. Before joining the Texas A&M coaching staff, he was head strength and conditioning coach at Southern California (1988-89), Oregon (1983-87), Kansas (1982), and Wyoming (1981). After two years as a graduate assistant at Kansas (1977-78), Clark coached linebackers and served as defensive coordinator at Topeka (Kan.) High School (1979-80).