Raising the Bar: A Round Table Discussion on the Cares & Concerns of the Small College
Biography: Nathan Moe joined the South Dakota State staff as the head strength and conditioning coach in August 2005 and served in that position until being promoted to assistant athletic director for strength and conditioning in May 2011.
Moe works directly with the Jackrabbit football and volleyball teams, and also oversees the design and implementation of the year-round strength and conditioning programs for all of the Jackrabbits 21 varsity sports. The Jackrabbit football program has reach the second round of the FCS playoffs each of the last three years in no small part thanks to the efforts of coach Moe and his staff.
Moe came to South Dakota State after heading the strength and conditioning program at Eastern Illinois University for three years, where he oversaw the design and implementation of strength and conditioning programs for all 22 of the Panthers varsity sports.
Before his days with the Panthers in Charleston, Ill., Moe worked as the assistant strength and conditioning coach at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he worked with the Owls football strength program, while being directly responsible for men's and women's track, men's and women's tennis, women's swimming, women's soccer and men's golf.
From 1997 through the spring of 1999, Moe worked as a graduate assistant in the strength and conditioning program at the University of Texas in Austin, where he earned a MEd. in Exercise Physiology. He also worked in private business in physical fitness in Austin and Houston, Texas and in Fargo, N.D.
A Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and a USA Weightlifting Certified Club Coach, Moe also maintains certifications in the National Strength and Conditioning Association and the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association. In 2012, the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association honored Moe as a Master Strength and Conditioning Coach.
A Minnesota native, Moe graduated from Moorhead State University in Moorhead, Minn., in 1996, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Exercise Science. He also played football for the 1995 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference champion Dragons.
Moe and his wife Colleen live in Brookings with their son, Zachary and daughter Kylie.
Presentation Summary:
Coaches from Divisions I FCS, II, and III will be featured at this round table and will be discussing 3-5 issues that small schools face in their strength & conditioning programs.
