Director of Sports Performance Men's Basketball
Erick Schork begins his first season with the Runnin’ Utes program as the director of men’s basketball sports performance after joining Alex Jensen’s staff in May of 2025.
Schork comes to SLC with familiarity having lived in the Beehive State since 2016. He joins the Runnin’ Utes staff after spending the last two seasons at Snow College where he oversaw the development for eight different programs.
Prior to that, Schork was down the road at BYU where he served in the same role from 2016-23 under Dave Rose and Mark Pope.
His relationship with Jensen started at Saint Louis where he was the director of strength and conditioning for men’s basketball from 2007-16 that encapsulated the entire Rick Majerus Era for the Billikens.
Before joining Majerus’ staff, Schork spent four years (2003-07) as the director of strength and conditioning at Wright State. During his time in Dayton, Ohio, Schork was in charge of training for all 16 programs at Wright State. In addition, Schork also served as an adjunct professor in the college of education at WSU.
His first stop at the collegiate level came at The Ohio State (1997-03). While in Columbus, he designed and implemented training programs for a slew of teams that included men’s and women’s ice hockey, men’s volleyball, diving, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s golf and softball. Schork also served as a graduate assistant from 1995-97 at Western Michigan.
In addition, he has also worked with the Buffalo Bills (NFL) and designed the first weight room for the Columbus Blue Jackets (NHL).
Schork is a member of both the National Strength and Conditioning Association and Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association. He also earned the title of master strength and conditioning coach by the CSCCa in May of 2013.
Schork graduated from Springfield College in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in health and fitness before obtaining his master’s in exercise science at Western Michigan in 1997.
