Tom Palumbo is in his 6th year as a Strength and Conditioning Coach for The Ohio State Buckeyes. His team responsibilities include: Women’s Lacrosse, Women's Ice Hockey, Men's and Women's Golf, and Softball.

Tom comes from the Pittsburgh Pirates organization where he served as a Minor League Conditioning coach for the 2001 season. His team, the Williamsport Crosscutters won the NY/Penn League championship. From 1999-2001 Tom was the Assistant Strength and Conditioning coach at the University of Georgia. While earning his master's degree in Physical Education and Sport Studies, Tom was a graduate assistant for the P.E. department and a volunteer Strength and Conditioning Coach at UGA.

Allan has 25 years experience at the high school, collegiate and professional level as a strength and conditioning professional. He coached collegiately at West Virginia and Ohio State University – where he helped lead the Buckeyes to win the 2002 National Championship. He has also coached in 16 post-season football and basketball bowl games and sweet-16 NCAA tournaments.

As the first strength and conditioning coach in the history of the Baltimore Orioles and a 2003 inductee into the Strength and Conditioning Coaches Hall of Fame, Allan is certified through the NSCA, CSCCA and NASE.

Coach Hill was promoted from Head Football Strength Coach to Director of Strength and Conditioning in 2006 at the University of Kentucky. He has been with the University of Kentucky athletic program since February of 1999. Prior to that, he was the Head Assistant Strength Coach at the University of Arizona. While at Arizona, Hill worked with football, baseball, women’s tennis, gymnastics, women’s volleyball, and the 1997 NCAA champion Men’s basketball team. His teams have reached six bowl games, including the 1994 Freedom Bowl, 1997 Insight.com Bowl, 1998 Holiday Bowl, and the 1999, 2006, and 2007 Music City Bowls. Marc has trained athletes from the high school ranks to the collegiate ranks to the NFL, and the LPGA.

Coach Hill’s experience in the field of strength and conditioning is vast and still growing. Hill is certified by both the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches association and by the National Strength and Conditioning Association. In addition, he holds a masters degree in Exercise and Sport Science from the University of Arizona. He currently serves on the Gatorade Sports Science Institute, Educational Advisory Board.

Eric Ciano is in his fourth season as Georgia Tech’s Director of Player Development. He oversees Tech’s strength and conditioning program for all sports while working primarily with the football team. Ciano came to Tech in 2004 from the University of Tennessee, where he served as associate head strength and conditioning coach since 2002. He previously spent two years (2000-02) as the head strength and conditioning coach at Louisiana Tech, following two years (1997-99) as a graduate assistant at Tennessee.

Ciano earned his bachelor’s degree in 1997 from Springfield (Mass.) College, where he lettered in football. He added a master’s degree from Tennessee in 1999. A certified collegiate strength and conditioning coach, Ciano is a member of the CSCCA and the NSCA.

John Patrick took over the YSU strength program in June 2008. He handles the strength and conditioning duties for all 18 YSU athletic programs. Partrick is certified by the NSCA, ISSA and USWA. He is also a member of the CSCCA. Prior to coming to Youngstown, Patrick spent three years as head strength & conditioning coach for Jacksonville University, where he was responsible for the development of all 18 athletic programs.

Before his arrival at Jacksonville in 2004, Patrick spent two years at Georgia Southern University, where he designed and implemented programs for women's soccer and track and field, men's tennis and golf, and assisted with football, baseball, women's volleyball and basketball. Prior to joining the Georgia Southern staff, Patrick served as a volunteer assistant strength & conditioning coach at YSU and New Mexico State University.

Patrick also spent a year as a graduate assistant at The University of Texas at El Paso designing programs for women's tennis, rifle and track & field, while assisting with football, women's volleyball, soccer and basketball. Prior to his experience in collegiate athletics, Patrick worked as a strength & conditioning intern with the Detroit Tigers Baseball Organization before working with the Cleveland Indians Minor League Team, the Mahoning Valley Scrappers.