Vice Chair
Yolanda Berryhill is the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach of Women’s Basketball at Texas A&M. She began her tenure at Texas A&M in June of 2021 as a sports performance coach. She comes from Georgia Tech where she served as a player development coach from 2019-21, working with the Yellow Jacket women's basketball team. Berryhill previously held a strength and conditioning internship at Georgia Tech in 2011 while completing her undergraduate work at Georgia State, assisting with women’s basketball and volleyball under the supervision of Scott McDonald. The Leesburg, Georgia, native returned to The Flats after working with women’s basketball and women’s tennis for three years at SMU in Dallas, Texas. Her resume also includes two years as the director of Olympic sports at Appalachian State (2014-16) where she held oversight of all Olympic sports, program design, implementation, and preparation for student-athletes, working directly with women’s basketball, volleyball, softball and men’s and women’s track & field. A 2011 graduate of Georgia State, Berryhill remained with the Panthers for three years, first as a graduate assistant (2011-12) before becoming full-time as an assistant strength and conditioning coach (2012-14), overseeing women’s basketball, women’s tennis and women’s track and field. A member of Georgia State’s track & field team (2007-11), Berryhill was a two-time Colonial Athletic Association discus conference champion (2008, 2011) and CAA shot-put champion in 2011, and a three-time NCAA discus qualifier (2007, 2010, 2011). Berryhill also earned several academic accolades, including CoSIDA Academic All-District first-team honors. Berryhill graduated from Georgia State with a Bachelor of Science in exercise science (2011), and a Master’s of Science in exercise science in 2012.
