Strength Coach D1 Training Athens, Georgia, Georgia Tech University
Ed Ellis is entering his 35th year as a strength and conditioning coach, 25 of those years as a head strength and conditioning coach.
Ellis is currently a strength coach at D1 Training in Athens, Georgia. Prior to this, Ellis was the Sr.Associate strength and conditioning coach at the University of Arkansas fro 2020-2022.Prior to Arkansas, Ellis was the Sr Director of strength and conditioning at University of Georgia from 2015-2019. Prior to Georgia he was the Director of strength and conditioning at UCF from 2004-2015.
Ellis, who was honored as the 2000 College Strength and Conditioning Professional of the Year for the Atlantic Coast Conference by the National Strength and Conditioning Association, went to Tech in 2001 after seven years as the head strength and conditioning coordinator at Wake Forest.
Before going to Wake Forest in 1994, Ellis spent four years (1991-1994) as the head strength and conditioning coordinator at Illinois State and two years (1989-1991) as an assistant strength coach at Mississippi. He began his career as a graduate assistant at Arkansas from 1987-1989.
Ellis earned his bachelor's degree in physical education from Alabama in 1987 and added a master's degree in education from Arkansas in 1989. An all-SEC performer in the discus and shot put, he also held world and national drug-free power-lifting records, including a personal best of 620 pounds in the bench press.
Ellis is married to the former Dyann Edmondston, and the couple has four children, Jessica, Nicole, Eric, and Brian.
