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PLAYERS & STAFF
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HISTORY & RECORDS
Erin Cash joined the Hokies in April 2016
as Senior Director, Sports Medicine.
She previously served as the women’s
basketball athletic trainer at James Madison
University for the past five years. In addition,
she supervised the cheerleading graduate
assistant, was a Preceptor for the Athletic
Training Program and was an advisor for the
Madison Athletic Training Student Association
and the Gatorade Manager for the summer
camp program.
HEAD S&C COACH FOR
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
SENIOR DIRECTOR,
SPORTS MEDICINE
Greg Werner became the head strength
and conditioning coach for Virginia Tech
women’s basketball in May 2016. He is
responsible for the year-round development of
the Hokies in all areas of athleticism and injury
prevention. Werner was head strength and
conditioning coach for most of Kenny Brooks’
14-season head coaching tenure at JMU.
Prior to Tech, Coach Werner was the head
strength and conditioning coach for women’s
basketball at Auburn University for one season
where he helped the Tigers move up several
spots in the SEC standings and make it to
the NCAA tournament where they won their
opening round game and had a 20-win season. For twenty years Werner
was the head strength and conditioning coach at James Madison. He
began that role in 1995 after working as an assistant in the program the
previous three years. While at JMU, Werner directed the program for all
sports. He was inducted into the JMU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014 with
the 1994 NCAA national champion field hockey team. Before working at
JMU, Werner was an assistant strength and conditioning coach for one
year at the University of The Pacific in Stockton, California where he worked
with football, volleyball, baseball, softball, tennis, swimming and water
polo, and additionally taught classes in the sport sciences department.
Werner received his master’s degree in kinesiology with a concentration
in exercise science from JMU in 1994. He became interested in the science
of speed, strength and conditioning while earning his bachelor’s degree in
human performance with an emphasis in exercise science at Austin Peay
State University (’91). While at APSU he worked as an assistant strength
coach for two years.
In his tenure as the head strength and conditioning coach at JMU,
Werner grew the program from one part-time assistant to its impressive
current size, with six full-time coaches working out of five weight rooms
and two multi-purpose/cardio rooms, nearly 20,00 square feet of space,
serving 19 teams. In addition to directing JMU’s strength and conditioning
program Coach Werner was an adjunct professor for the School of
Kinesiology where he designed and taught “KIN 425, Concepts of Strength
& Conditioning,” for 15 years. In 2014 he was awarded the Kinesiology
Department’s Professional of the Year award.
Outside of the collegiate ranks Werner has instructed several NFL,
MLB, MLS, pro basketball and Olympic athletes. In 2011 he was elected
by his peers to be a board of director’s member for the CSCCA, and
again in 2015 he was re-elected to the board for a second term. In 2006,
Werner received the highest professional honor by earning the title of
Master Strength & Conditioning Coach from the Collegiate Strength and
Conditioning Coaches Association. That same year he was nominated
by his peers to be one of three finalists for the NSCA’s College Strength
and Conditioning Professional of the Year Award. In 2005 he received
the highest honor from the National Strength & Conditioning Association
and earned the Coach Practitioner distinction. In 1999 he was selected
the National Strength and Conditioning Association, Colonial Athletic
Association Strength and Conditioning Professional of the Year, and
was nominated by his peers to be one of three finalists for the national
professional of the year award. Also in 1999, he was selected to be the
strength and conditioning specialist for the US National Field Hockey team.
Werner has been active in the National Strength and Conditioning
Association for several years. He served as the Virginia state director for
the maximum term, and has been an active speaker at the NSCA sport
specific training conference, CSCS symposium and several other coach’s
clinics and camps. In 2014, the NSCA honoredWerner with the registered
strength and conditioning coach Emeritus distinction and awarded him
the honorary 20-year ring. In addition to coaching and teaching, Werner
has published over 30 articles in various coaching journals, magazines
and websites. Werner is a National Strength and Conditioning Association
certified strength and conditioning specialist and is certified through
the Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association. He is an
American College of Sports Medicine certified health/fitness instructor.
Werner and his wife Cyndi have two grown children, Hans Christian and
Heidi Faith.
Ten NCAA Tournament basketball teams that Greg Werner has worked
with:
Men’s Teams: APSU 1987 2nd round,
JMU 1994, 2013 2nd round
Women’s Teams: JMU 1996, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2014 2nd round,
2015,
Auburn 2016 2nd round
WNIT Teams: JMU 2001 Final Four, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012 Final,
2013 Final Four
Prior to her time at JMU, Cash was a graduate assistant at Virginia Tech
from 2006-2009 where she worked with various athletic teams. Upon
graduation, she moved on to Florida State University, where she was an
assistant athletic trainer from 2009-2011.
A 2006 graduate of Central Florida’s Athletic Training program, Cash
also has a MSed in Health Promotions (2007), and PhD in Curriculum
and Instruction (2009) from Virginia Tech.