{"id":43628,"date":"2022-01-31T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/?p=43628"},"modified":"2022-01-30T23:28:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T04:28:24","slug":"ysus-new-strength-and-conditioning-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2022\/01\/31\/ysus-new-strength-and-conditioning-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"YSU’s New Strength and Conditioning Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the biggest part about playing college and professional football is your form and strength. \u00a0Off-season weight room and conditioning sprints are important parts, especially keeping your body hydrated with the right amount of water and Gatorade\/Powerade. \u00a0The athletic trainers are important, but the leader in that category is the strength and conditioning coach. YSU’s new strength and conditioning coach has work to do.<\/p>\n

In the past few seasons, YSU’s strength and conditioning program was led by Terry Grossetti<\/strong><\/a>, who runs his own program in New Castle, Pennsylvania called Grossetti Performance. \u00a0However, after this past season, coach Doug Phillips needed a change at the position.<\/p>\n

The Change<\/h3>\n

On January 28th it became official. \u00a0Jimmy Rodenberg<\/strong><\/a> became the Head Football Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for the Penguins. \u00a0Rosenberg brings experience with him especially in the Ohio Area. \u00a0His experience is extensive. He was the Strength and Conditioning coach at Grand Valley State<\/a> University, and an assistant at Cincinnati The Bearcats just made it to their first ever college football playoff. He now joins the Youngstown State Penguins.<\/p>\n

Rodenberg played football at Archbishop Moeller High School in Cincinnati and continued his academic and athletic career at Ashland University<\/a>. \u00a0He is also a graduate from Ohio State University, earning his degree back in 2017. \u00a0According to his Linkden profile, he helped out a bit with their strength and conditioning as well. \u00a0This experience can prove beneficial for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

At Archbishop Moeller<\/a>, Rodenberg had big success in his senior season in 2012. \u00a0He was named second team All-Greater Catholic League, had 86.5 tackles, three sacks and two forced fumbles.\u00a0 He also won a state championship in both football and baseball.<\/p>\n

What To Expect<\/h3>\n

The hire is expected to bring an FBS\/Division I level workout regimen to the Youngstown State program<\/a>.\u00a0 The players should expect to be ready for tiring and harder workouts day in and day out. \u00a0The goal this season is to upgrade the conditioning of the players to a higher level of fitness and endurance. , great attitude, great perseverance and a chance to make something great.\u00a0 This is expected to be a chance for the staff to have players ready to perform at a higher level. It’s nearing the end of January, so Spring camp is not that far off, followed by the Red and White game. YSU, like all teams will then head into intense Spring\/Summer workouts. The results will show when the season starts in the Fall.<\/p>\n

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One of the biggest part about playing college and professional football is your form and strength. \u00a0Off-season weight room and conditioning sprints are important parts, especially keeping your body hydrated with the right amount of water and Gatorade\/Powerade. \u00a0The athletic trainers are important, but the leader in that category is the strength and conditioning coach. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3128,"featured_media":22247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"This post should cover the new hire of YSUs football program","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"366","footnotes":""},"categories":[4162,8],"tags":[5302,6233,6232,139,8737,73,4935],"class_list":["post-43628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fcs","category-fbs","tag-cfb-playoffs","tag-cincinnati","tag-doug-phillips","tag-fcs","tag-grand-valley-state","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-ysu"],"modified_by":"Tony Siracusa, CFB Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}