A Plane Plan for Baseball - How to Incorporate Rotation into the Weightroom
Kenna (Smoak) is in her sixth year as a member of Army West Point’s Sports Performance staff and works with the baseball, volleyball and wrestling programs. After joining the Black Knights as an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach, she was promoted to her current title of Associate Strength & Conditioning Coach in the summer of 2019.? Smoak arrived on the banks of the Hudson from Marshall University where she was the Associate Director of Olympic Strength and Conditioning. She led the training for women’s basketball, men’s soccer, volleyball, women’s swimming and diving as well as the men’s and women’s golf programs. During the 2015-16 season, she worked at Southern Methodist University with the women’s basketball team, the American Athletic Conference champion swim program and the women’s tennis team. Before arriving in Dallas, Minnici (formerly Smoak) was at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. She worked with volleyball, softball, women’s tennis and women’s basketball while assisting with football. In her time with the?Mocs, the softball team and nationally-ranked women’s basketball squad won the SoCon Championship and NCAA tournament berths. Minnici completed a graduate assistantship for strength and conditioning at Gardner-Webb University in December 2013 and earned her Master’s in Sport Science and Pedagogy. She was the primary coach for women's basketball, women's soccer, men's and women's swimming and track/cross country and assisted with football. Prior to Gardner-Webb, Minnici went through an internship program at Georgia Institute of Technology to complete her undergraduate education in Kinesiology from the University of Alabama. While at Alabama, she was a student intern from spring of 2009 to the summer of 2011 and focused on softball, women’s basketball, rowing and golf. She also handled the training for the men's wheelchair basketball team. She is certified through the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS). Minnici is also USAW, RPR, FMS, and NASM-PT certified, as well as Collegiate Strength and Conditional Coaches Association certified as Strength and Conditioning Coach (SCCC). She completed her International Society of Sports Nutrition CISSN February 2021 and became Pre and Postnatal certified exercise specialist (PCES) in July 2022. A native of Atlanta, Ga., she has been a National Level NPC Figure/Physique competitor since 2009, is a pro-total powerlifter and a two-time Boston Marathon qualifier. Minnici now resides in Stormville, New York with her husband Dom, son Dom Jr, and two German Shepards Nimbus and Pola.
