Terry O'Neill enters his 11th season as Washington University's first-ever Sports Performance coach.
A St. Louis native, he arrived on the Danforth Campus after spending two years (2013-14) at Yale University as Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach. Prior to Yale, O'Neill worked six years at the University of Maine. Hired in 2007 as the First Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach, he was promoted to Associate Head Strength & Conditioning Coach in 2011. While at the Maine, he oversaw the development of men’s and women’s ice hockey, field hockey, swimming & diving, baseball (2007-08), and volleyball (2007-08). While on campus at the University of Maine, he coauthored the study, Predictors of Speed using off-ice measures of College Hockey Players (published in the Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research in 2016).
O’Neill served as a graduate assistant strength coach at Canisius College for two years (2005-07) prior to working at Maine. During that two-year period, he also served as director of conditioning and performance enhancement expert at CAN/AM Hockey Camp. In 2004-05, O’Neill was an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Bucknell University.
O'Neill is a 2004 graduate of the University of Missouri with a bachelor’s degree in nutrition and fitness, and a 2007 graduate of Canisius College with a master’s degree in physical education. He holds certifications as a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), USA Weightlifting (Level 1), Functional Movement Systems (Level 2), Reflexive Performance Reset (RPR-Level 1), and is both CPR and AED certified.
