After more than four years at Newberry College, Erik Schwager joined the Northwestern State Athletic Department as its director of strength and conditioning In March 2020.
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Schwager comes to NSU after serving as the director of strength, conditioning and athletic performance at Newberry, where he helped the Wolves capture the 2016 Southern Atlantic Conference football championship.
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At Newberry, Schwager was in charge of a 22-sport program and directly designed and implemented all facets of strength and conditioning for the Wolves' football, women's soccer and softball programs while managing a staff of three assistants.
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Schwager comes to Natchitoches with a varied background that includes stops at Hartford, where he worked with Major League Baseball first-round selection Sean Newcomb, Limestone College and with the Batavia Muckdogs, a Class A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals.
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He also has experience at Princeton, Michigan State and South Florida and was the owner and director of H.I.T. Advanced Training, LLC.
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Schwager is a 2009 graduate of Lock Haven University and earned his master's from California University of Pennsylvania in 2012.
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He is a National Strength and Conditioning Association certified strength and conditioning specialist, a National Speed and Explosion Association certified speed specialist and the NASE state director for Connecticut, a National Academy of Sports Medicine PES certified performance enhancement specialist and is CPR/AED certified.
