Shawn Griswold - Head Coach of Sports Performance
Shawn Griswold enters his second season as the Arizona State University head coach of sports performance. Griswold came to ASU from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was one of Sun Devil head football coach Todd Graham's first hires upon taking over that program. Graham has called Griswold "the best strength and conditioning coach in America.”
Griswold was instrumental in procuring brand new equipment and flooring in the Lawrence Strength and Conditioning Center, helping it remain on par with its reputation as one of the elite weight rooms in the country. Addiitionally, the Sun Devils showed immediate improvement on the field with Griswold as strength in a high octane system. The explosive defense lead the nation in tackles for loss at 9.00 per game while also posting a 4.00 sacks per game clip that was second nationally. The offense average over 77 plays per game while posting 58 scoring drives in three minutes or less out of 75 scoring drives on the season, exemplifying the conditioning necesary to get up and down the field in a hurry.
Prior to joining the Pitt staff, Griswold spent three seasons as the Director of Strength and Conditioning at Tulsa under Graham. Griswold's efforts were instrumental in helping Tulsa field one of the country's most explosive teams over the past decade. The highly-conditioned Golden Hurricane averaged nearly 80 plays a game in 2010, ranking fifth nationally in total offense, sixth in scoring and 15th in rushing yards. Tulsa's mentally tough defense ranked third in turnovers forced.
Griswold had two stints at Tulsa (2004-06 and 2008-10) as Director of Strength and Conditioning. During that time the Golden Hurricane earned four bowl berths and captured the 2005 Conference USA championship. In addition to working with the football team, he also had oversight of the entire strength and conditioning program for Tulsa athletics. He spent the 2007 season in Louisville as an assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Cardinals.
Prior to Tulsa, Griswold spent five years as head strength and conditioning coordinator at his alma mater, Utah State. He oversaw the athletic development for 16 varsity sports and was directly responsible for designing the strength and conditioning programs for football, basketball and volleyball.
A former football student-athlete at USU, Griswold's career began as a graduate assistant coach for the Aggies before he was promoted to Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coordinator.
Griswold earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Utah State. He received a bachelor's degree in exercise science in 1996 and a masters of science degree in 1998.
Arizona Republic Story on Shawn Griswold - January 14, 2012
Doug Haller (Arizona Republic) Story on Strength and Conditioning - July 15, 2013
Josh Storms - Assistant Head Coach of Sports Performance
Josh Storms is in his eighth year on the Sports Performance staff at Arizona State. In his role, Storms serves as the lead assistant to Head Sports Performance Coach Shawn Griswold in the physical development of the Sun Devil football team. Before arriving at ASU in January of 2005, Storms was an assistant strength coach at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas for more than two years, where in addition to assisting with football team, he worked with the Rebel track and field, men’s soccer and men’s and women’s tennis teams. Prior to his time at UNLV he was a seasonal assistant strength and conditioning coach with the Minnesota Vikings in 2001. Storms graduated from the University of South Dakota (2001) where he played tight end, and completed his Master’s degree at ASU in 2006. Josh is certified through both the CSCCa and the NSCA. He is married to Darcie, his wife of ten years, and they are expecting their first child this summer.
Rich Wenner - Associate Head Coach of Sports Performance
Rich Wenner, a 1986 ASU alumnus with a bachelor of science in Physical Education, has been a sports performance coach for more than two decades at ASU. After serving as an assistant strength and conditioning coach from 1987- 1985, he was the head strength coach (Olympic Sports) from 2000 until 2003 when he took the title of Associate Head Sports Performance Coach in 2003. Wenner has received many awards, as he was named Pac-10 Strength Coach of the Year in 1996. In 2005, the National Strength and Conditioning Association named Wenner as an Elite Strength and Conditioning Coach through its Coach Practitioner Program, a list of only 32 from across the country and the world. He is also a certified strength and conditioning specialist through NSCA and also a Certified Sports Performance Coach through USA Weightlifting. Wenner has authored a half dozen strength training articles and was a guest speaker at the 1988 NSCA National Conference. A 13-time national power lifting champion, Wenner was the 1986 junior world power lifting champion and a bronze medalist in the 2004 master's bench press world championship. He has a established 15 national power lifting records and including his 1986 Collegiate National power lifting record which stood for 18 years.
During his two-plus decades at ASU, Wenner has worked with four NCAA Championship teams, 13 individual NCAA Champions, 19 Pac-10 team champions, 11 Pac-10 individual champions and All-Pac-10 first team selections and 158 All-Americans. Some of these teams include the 1997 Rose Bowl team, the 1988 and 1998 College Baseball World Series Championship game teams and the NCAA men and women's basketball Sweet Sixteen teams. Wenner has been married to wife Pauley for 17 years. He is currently working on his master's degree in Health and Wellness.
Chris Desrosiers - Senior Assistant Coach for Sports Performance
Chris enters his third year at Arizona State University and was recently promoted to Senior Assistant Coach for Sports Performance. He assists with the Sun Devil football program and is personally responsible for the men’s and women’s track and field programs. Chris earned his undergraduate degree from Springfield College in Applied Exercise Science (2008). During his undergraduate term he interned with several schools throughout the northeast including the University of Maine, University of Massachusetts, College of the Holy Cross, and also spent time with the NFL's Buffalo Bills. He then moved on to become a graduate assistant at Florida State University where he earned a masters degree in Sports Administration (2010). While at Florida State, Chris worked with several teams including football, swimming and diving, track and field, baseball, softball, tennis, volleyball and golf. Chris then joined the Florida State Football strength staff for the 2010 season. Chris holds certifications with USA weightlifting, the National Strength and Conditioning Association and the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Association.
Tyler Friedrich - Assistant Coach for Sports Performance
Tyler enters his first year at Arizona State University. He assists with the Sun Devil football program and is personally responsible for the men’s and women’s swimming and wresting programs. Prior to coming to Arizona State, Tyler worked as an Assistant Strength and Conditioning coach at the University of Dayton where he assisted with football, volleyball, track and field, women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer and women’s cross country. He was also directly responsible for implementing the strength and conditioning programs for men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s tennis and the women’s rowing program.
Tyler had various internships first at an Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, NY (2010) and at LSU (2011) working primarily with the football strength and conditioning program. He started his strength and conditioning career at the University of Dayton working as a student assistant while he also was a four-year letterwinner in football, part of three Pioneer Football League championship teams, twice named First Team All-PFL and voted tem captain as a senior.
Tyler earned both his undergraduate degree in Exercise Physiology (2010) and graduate degree in Exercise Science (2012) from the University of Dayton. In 2011 he worked as a Graduate Assistant for the Health and Sport Science Department at the University of Dayton where he taught exercise physiology lab courses and worked as a graduate student assistant strength coach. Tyler holds certifications with USA weightlifting and the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Kody Cook - Graduate Assistant
Kody enters his first year as a graduate assistant on the Sports Performance staff at Arizona State University. Kody earned his B.S. in Exercise Sports Science from the University of Tulsa (2011) where he was a member of the Tulsa football team for 3 seasons after transferring from the University of Oklahoma. Kody assists with the Sun Devil football program, as well as, wrestling, track and field, and swimming and diving. Kody is pursuing his masters in Higher and Post-Secondary Education and his certification with the National Strength and Conditioning Association.