Bob Medina enters his 10th season as the team’s strength and conditioning coach. Before joining the Trail Blazers' staff at the start of the 1997-98 season, he served in a similar capacity with the Seattle SuperSonics for five years. Medina began his career in the strength and conditioning field at UNLV, serving for three years as a full time assistant. From 1985 through 1988 he worked in a similar capacity as an undergraduate student assistant, developing athletes in all sports.

Medina has written articles for several different publications for the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and, along with several members of the National Basketball Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association has been a contributing author in the books, "Condition the NBA Way" and "NBA Power Conditioning." He is currently in the process of writing a third book. Medina has a bachelor’s degree in athletic training with a minor in health education from UNLV. He was inducted along with the 1990 UNLV National Champion Basketball Team into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame in 2001.

Al Miller began his career as a full-time strength and conditioning coach at Mississippi State University in 1980. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Northeast Louisiana University, and then to the University of Alabama in 1982 as a strength coach under legendary head football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant.

Three years later, he took his first NFL job with the Denver Broncos. During his eight-year stint, the Broncos participated in four AFC Championship games, three Super Bowls, and one Pro Bowl. At this point, he took a position with the New York Giants for four years, followed by a position with the Atlanta Falcons. He worked with the Falcons for nine seasons, during which the team participated in two NFC Championship games, one Super Bowl, and one Pro Bowl. He retired in March of 2006 after completing 21 NFL seasons.

Mark Uyeyama enters his first season with the 49ers after he was hired as the team’s assistant strength coach on January 21, 2008. Uyeyama joins the 49ers after serving as the head strength and conditioning coach at Utah State University from 2004-07.

Uyeyama graduated from Utah in May of 2000 while working as a student assistant strength coach for two years. He then became a graduate assistant at USU before moving to another graduate assistant position at Arizona State from May 2001 through May 2003, when he was promoted to a full-time assistant.

Prior to working in the strength and conditioning field, Uyeyama played football at Butte Community College in Oroville, CA and Northern State University in Aberdeen, S.D. He earned a master's degree in higher and post secondary education from ASU in May of 2003.

Doug Elisaia is in his third year as Utah's director of strength and conditioning. He is in his fourth year overall at Utah, having spent one year as a Ute assistant strength coach. He is a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association and the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association. Elisaia was at Kentucky from 2002-04, where he was the head baseball strength and conditioning coach and also assisted with football.

From 2000-01, he was employed by Wayne State as the defensive line coach and football team's strength and conditioning coach. He served in a similar capacity at McPherson College for the 1998-99 seasons. Elisaia played defensive tackle at Iowa Wesleyan from 1991-95 and led the team in tackles as a senior while earning NAIA Academic All-America honors. The three year team captain graduated in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in physical education and a minor in athletic training and coaching.

Shannon Turley started as the head strength and conditioning coach for Stanford Football in 2007. Turley spent the 2006 campaign at the University of San Diego as the Director of Athletic Performance, where he lead a comprehensive injury prevention and athletic performance enhancement training program for all of the Toreros' 16-sport programs.

Turley served the University of Missouri (2001-05) for the five previous years, two as a graduate assistant and three as assistant director of strength and conditioning. During his tenure at Mizzou, he assisted with the player development program for the football team as well as directing the training of the women’s volleyball and wrestling programs. Prior to his stint with the Tigers, Turley served the Kansas City Royals Baseball Club during the 2001 season where he was directly responsible for the strength and conditioning development of the AA affiliate Wichita Wranglers.

A Virginia Tech alumnus, Turley earned a Bachelor’s degree in the Science of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise in addition to a minor in Chemistry in 2000. While with the Hokies, Turley served as President of the Exercise Science Student Organization and began his career in strength and conditioning as a student assistant coach following his track and field career. He is a certified member of the CSCCA and NSCA, as well as a certified sports nutritionist with the International Society of Sports Nutrition.

A member of the Texas A&M Class of ’94, Ellsworth returned to her alma mater in 1996 to assist in the strength and conditioning of Aggie athletes. In addition to volleyball, Ellsworth directs the nationally ranked softball team. Ellsworth is also the practicum coordinator for strength and conditioning in the A&M kinesiology department’s master’s exercise physiology program.

Throughout her 15-year association with the A&M athletic department, Ellsworth has been recognized for her leadership and dedication by being voted the 1999-2000 Texas A&M Coach of the Year. With the award, Ellsworth became the first non-head coach to receive the honor. In 2007, she also received the most prestigious honor award in her profession when named a Master Strength and Conditioning Coach by the CSCCA. At the time, she was one of only 60 in the country to hold the esteemed honor, and she is currently one of only three females to have earned the distinction.

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).