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N11: Thomas Beckett, Lessons From Former Yale Director of Athletics

Thomas Beckett joins The Hawkin Podcast in Episode 11 to discuss his tenure at Yale University which includes 24-years as the Director of Athletics for the Bulldogs, 118 Championships, 73 first-place Ivy League finishes, 43 Olympic Athletes, 337 All-Americans during his time on campus. 

 

Beckett also significantly grew the department financially. In 1994, there was an athletics endowment of roughly $20 million. In 2017, when he retired the endowment was $283 million, an increase of $263 million or $11 million growth per year. This included the expansion of the department where he oversaw the renovation or construction of 20 key facilities spanning across 2,000 acres of land used for athletic activities. 

 

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N12: Hewitt Tomlin ─ The TeamBuildr Story, Reflecting on the 10-Year Journey

In Episode 12 of The Hawkin Podcast we are joined by Hewitt Tomlin, Co-Founder of TeamBuildr. Founded in 2012, TeamBuildr is a SaaS company that saves strength & conditioning coaches time by automating program building, tracking, and auditing.    Key topics from this episode include: • How the TeamBuildr idea evolved into a business • Picking the right software to build, and how it changed overtime • Determining what features are impactful & important for all users • The evolution of strength coaches & analyzing community trends from a different lens.  • Competing with the Googles and Apples in the hiring process • Thomas' experience with TeamBuildr and onboarding new staff with TeamBuildr at Yale University Learn more about Hawkin Dynamics at www.HawkinDynamics.com Learn more about TeamBuildr at https://www.teambuildr.com/en/     

 

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N13: Dr. Larry Wilen & Vince Wilczynski - Idea to Working Solution, Learning From Yale University Center for Engineering Innovation & Design

In Episode 13 of The Hawkin Podcast we are joined by Dr. Larry Wilen & Vince Wilczynski from Yale University Center for Engineering Innovation & Design (CEID).

 

Since 2012, the 8,700 square foot CEID design lab serves as a hub for collaborative design and interdisciplinary activity at Yale University. Its goal is to enable the design, development, and actualization of ideas, from the whiteboard to the real world. It is a "Maker Space" and a one of a kind resource for Yale students, staff, and faculty to take ideas to the next level.

 

Vince is the CEID Director and Deputy Dean for the School of Engineering & Applied Science. Dr. Wilen serves as a Senior Research Scientist and Design Mentor for CEID. Our host, Thomas Newman has direct experience in the "Maker Space" at Yale CEID with both Vince and Dr. Wilen. In this episode, they discuss inventions that were made during Thomas' time at Yale to track & train athletic performance. 

 

Key topics from this episode include:

• History of Yale Engineering (since 1852)
• What is CEID?
• From idea to working product
• Working with athletics to engineers solutions
• Failure as part of the design process
• And much more

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Learn more about Yale University CEID at: http://ceid.yale.edu

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N14: Beau Bartone - From College to Tech

Beau Bartone joins us in Episode 14 of The Hawkin Podcast! Beau is currently a Performance Coach at Future. Future offers one-on-one digital training with fitness coaches at home, the gym, or on-the-go. Learn more about Future at www.future.co.

 

Beau starting his coaching career as a student-assistant football coach at Southern Connecticut State University before interning with Yale University Football & Lacrosse in the summer of 2017. Shortly after, Beau entered the private sector at Competitive Edge Sports Performance in Milford, Connecticut. A year later he rejoined Yale University as the Assistant Director of Football Performance where he worked for nearly 3-years before joining Future.

 

In this episode, Beau & Thomas talk about:

• The things not talked about in strength & conditioning
• Attacking the lowest hanging fruits first
• Auditing your strength programs
• How they both ran and organized training at Yale
• And much more...

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N15: Joe Staub ⎯ Mastering Goals in Performance & Business

Joe Staub joins us in Episode 15 of The Hawkin Podcast! Joe is currently the Executive Director at The Zenta Group. The Zenta Group is a Business & Management consulting group that has a focus on Management and Leadership. Previously, Joe ran Track & Field at the University of Connecticut during his undergraduate program. During this time, Joe also worked as an intern for the strength and conditioning department. Joe continued his education at UConn for this graduate program in Kinesiology, before moving to Kansas under Andrea Hudy for 2.5 years.

Staub later on became the Director of Strength and Conditioning at Hofstra University for 5-years, and also obtained his MBA before transitioning out of Strength & Conditioning into the Business World.

In this episode we cover:

• Integrated Strength & Conditioning Departments at UConn
• Auditing Programs in S&C and also Business
• Using the knowledge and skills from strength and conditioning, and applying them to business.
• Staub’s intake on failing.
• Weight room techniques that aren’t “popularized”.
• Strategies to implement into programming.
• And much more….

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N16: DJ Dolan - Pushing Your Performance Into The Next Frontier, A Mindset From a High Level Operator

DJ Dolan describes himself as an Athlete, Leader, & Teammate.  

As an Athlete, DJ was a former collegiate football player (at Merrimack College), and professional boxer for All-American Heavyweight (in California). 

As a Teammate and Leader, and shortly after his athletic career, he joined the US Army as both an enlisted and commissioned officer. Post Army, he joined the Massachusetts State Police working primarily on two teams. The first as a detective with the violent fugitive apprehension section attached to the US Marshals fugitive task force, as detective he was responsible for planning and carrying out hundreds of operations with the mission of locating and apprehend fugitives who are wanted for violent offense as well as safely locating victims of human trafficking and kidnapping. The second as a member of the statewide full-service Special Tactical Operations Team as a breacher. 

Expanding on his Leadership experience gained from the MA State Police and US Army, Dolan now serves as a social impact entrepreneur who empowers leaders, high performers, and organizations to help elevate HUMANITY. DJ is involved with multiple companies and missions. He is the founder and lead coach at EMPWR Coaching & Consulting where he specialized in helping leaders, teams, and organizations to discover their full potential to create a lasting impact on the world. He believes that this can be accomplished as a byproduct of living and leading authenticity and creating relationship-based systems aimed to enhance & nurture engagement, meaning, performance, well-being, and resilience. Additionally, DJ is the founder of One Tribe, which is a non-profit mentorship service with the mission of building purposeful relationships between servant leaders and youth leaders from at-risk communities guided with a curriculum from positive psychology, health science, Neuroscience and leadership development. DJ serves as a leadership instructor with a company named The Program working collegiate, professional athletic teams and corporations across North America. 

DJ is a lifelong learner working toward a doctorate in neuropsychology and human performance as well as competing at Brazilian Jui Juitsu. Most importantly, DJ serves as the co-captain of “Team Dolan” with his wife Jenn and three little teammates, Savannah, Jack, & Charlie. Team Dolan resides north of Boston, MA. 

We think you’ll enjoy this episode! Brought to you by Thomas Newman.

 

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N17: Pat Dixon - Director of Applied Sports Science at Momentous

Pat Dixon is the Director of Applied Sport Science at Momentous - a company who engineers athlete focused supplements.

 

Dixon began his career in exercise science at the University of Connecticut while pursuing a Master’s Degree and also working in athletics as a strength and conditioning coach. Previous publications, online and in print, have focused on athlete development with a focus on improving power production and performance. He spent 18 years working with college athletes at UConn, Cal-Berkeley, St John’s University and Loyola Marymount University with a focus on improving performance and decreasing the incidence of injury. While working with athletes, Dixon’s efforts helped shape multiple NCAA tournament appearances and Sweet Sixteen finishes in Women’s Basketball, Soccer and Volleyball.

While coaching, Dixon was a consultant and advisor to multiple biotechnology companies (Fitgenetix, Dyve Biosciences, Masimo Medical Technology). Efforts focused on developing products that better support physiological development and improve objective feedback leading to more efficient training protocols. Since leaving collegiate athletics, his work with Momentous has been focused on improving adaptation to training through nutrient intervention, specifically focused on bioavailability and timing of nutrient administration. 

 

Link to Collagen Shot Referenced in Episode:

• Collagen Shot: https://www.livemomentous.com/collections/shop-all-products/products/collagen-shot-15-servings

 

 

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N18: James Mcfarland - High School Strength Coach of the Year

James McFarland is a Teacher of Health and Physical Education and Strength and Conditioning Coordinator at Hillsborough High School, NJ. He was the National High School Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year 2018, and Hillsborough High Schools Teacher of the Year in 2008. Jim has been responsible for the health and physical education planning and implementation of Hillsborough High School’s Strength and Conditioning Program since he began in 1997. In 1999 he was given the charge of coordinating the year round afterschool strength and conditioning program for students in grades 9-12, and given permission to begin the intermediate school and middle school year-round co-curricular programs. While continuing these programs, James has been involved with 8 collaborative research studies in youth exercise science with The College of New Jersey and has over 20 published works. He has been a speaker for the NSCA since his start as a certified strength and conditioning specialist in 2001, and has been an adjunct professor for The College of New Jersey’s practical exercise science course for 4 years. His practical experience is fortified with his USAW Senior Level Certification, and extensive experience in youth competitive Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting. James holds in high regard his professional relationship with Yale Strength and conditioning for football, lacrosse, field hockey and soccer, as well as the New Balance sponsored Northeast Kingdom Running Camp. Twitter: @Raider_SC

 

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N19: Trey Hall - Director of Football Strength and Conditioning University of Maine

Trey Hall is the head football sports performance coach. Hall joined the Black Bears after spending a season as the assistant football strength and conditioning coach at Yale University. While with the Bulldogs, he played a key role in conducting weight room and on-field warm-ups while advancing Yale Athletics to the next level through the utilization of leading sports science technology.  Prior to his stint at Yale, he served as a strength and conditioning assistant at Delaware State University where he worked primarily with women's soccer, women's tennis, women's golf, women's equestrian while assisting with the men's and women's basketball programs and the football team.  Hall also developed key knowledge in the field through internships at Yale, Gannon University, and Edinboro University where he worked with former Pittsburgh Steelers and Miami Dolphins strength and conditioning coach, Ryan Grove.

 

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N20: Guy Hornsby - The Paradigm of S&C and Sport Science

We are joined in Episode 20 of The Hawkin Podcast by Guy Hornsby.

 

Guy Hornsby is currently the Assistant Professor of Coaching and Performance Science and is also the Head Coach of West Virginia Weightlifting for WVU. He graduated from East Tennessee State University (ETSU) with his Ph.D. in Sports Physiology & Performance. Additional responsibilities include Coaching Science Coordinator at the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, Human Performance Innovation Center, and West Virginia State Director of the National Strength and Conditioning Association. With a Ph.D. in Sports Physiology and Performance, Dr. Hornsby’s research is centered around optimizing the training process for strength power-based athletes.

 

Time Stamps for this episode:

• 0:10 Introduction to today's episode
• 0:52 Who is Guy Hornsby?
• 5:36 How technology & data is affecting strength & conditioning
• 14:08 Developing Athletes
• 26:40 Over Training and Physical Over Reaching
• 28:22 Relative VS Absolute Intensity
• 34:59 Force Plate Data in a team setting
• 45:40 Can monitoring athletes become dangerous?
• 49:44 Importance of Athlete Buy-In
• 50:58 Proper Set-Up of an isometric Mid Thigh Pull
• 1:00:39 Paradigm of Strength & Conditioning
• 1:11:42 Consistency from the start
• 1:16:22 How can science adapt to the new evolution of quick turnover in strength & conditioning
• 1:22:24 Gaining Respect from a Sports Coach as a Sports Scientist
• 1:41:19 Guy Hornsby outro

If you are interested in learning more about Guy, he can be found on LinkedIn here, and on Twitter here. 

 

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