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Indianola High School Strength and Conditioning Coach Preston West has been named to the Iowa State Advisory Board of the National High School Strength Coaches Association. West will be one of 13 coaches from across the state to serve on the board, which will provide opportunities for professional development for all high school strength and conditioning coaches via state clinics, regional and national conferences, newsletters, and technology-based educational resources. The NHSSCA is an organization solely focused on the high school level of strength and conditioning, and works to provide the bridge between athletics and athletic development. For more information, click below.
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Fermi High School alum Billy McSheffrey has been honored by his peers in Massachusetts as a strength and conditioning coach. (St. John s Preparatory School)
DANVERS, MA When Billy McSheffrey played ice hockey and baseball at Fermi High School in the early 2000s, the team nickname was the Falcons. A decade after his graduation in 2005, he went to work as strength and conditioning coach of the Springfield Falcons, the American Hockey League affiliate of the NHL s Arizona Coyotes.
Since Fermi s consolidation with Enfield High School in 2016, the local teams are now known as the Eagles. Coincidentally, McSheffrey s current career stop finds him working with a different group of Eagles, as strength and conditioning coordinator at St. John s Preparatory School, about 20 miles from Boston.
St. John’s Prep strength coach receives national honor
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St. John’s Prep strength and conditioning coordinator Billy McSheffrey has been named the 2021 Massachusetts Coach of the Year by the National High School Strength Coaches Association.
The annual honor recognizes a scholastic strength and conditioning coach for achievements in the field and passion for the profession. State Coach Of The Year winners are chosen by their peers across the commonwealth.
“This is a great honor from the NHSSCA, but our program isn’t about one person,” said McSheffrey, 33, a native of Connecticut who now lives in south Boston. “This is a reflection of the talented, hard-working strength coaches we have on staff, the ceaseless support of our Mahoney Wellness Center staff and the Prep’s dedicated athletic staff and coaches. Most important are the hours of unsung blood, sweat and tears that our student-athletes, past and present, have labored through in our fitness fac