Discussing the changing landscape and realities of college sports and strength & conditioning. How do we evolve and prepare as a profession?
Rhonda Watts is a 10 year veteran Division 1 strength and conditioning coach, who joined the Northern Illinois University Athletics Department as the Director of Sports Performance in March of 2021. Watts was promoted to Associate Athletic Director of Sports Performance April of 2022, where she works with men’s basketball, gymnastics and volleyball. She oversees the administrative functions for the strength and conditioning unit and serves on the student- athlete wellbeing committee. Watts created the first full time nutrition position that serves all nutritional needs of the student-athletes and programs as well as oversight of the fueling station.
Prior to arriving to NIU, Watts spent nearly six years at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she was the Associate Director of Sports Performance working with Women's Basketball, Volleyball and Softball.
Watts is a former Women's Basketball student athlete who earned a bachelor's degree in exercise physiology from Saint Francis University (Pa) and a master's in education from Jacksonville State University.
