Northwestern State University of Louisana

Aaron Potoshnik enters his second year as the assistant director of strength and conditioning at Northwestern State.

Potoshnik, who spent part of his first season at NSU guiding the staff through a coaching transition, runs the strength and conditioning programs for NSU football, men’s basketball, softball, soccer and tennis. 

A 2015 graduate of Washington State in exercise science, Potoshnik spent the early part of 2016 as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Washington sports performance complex. 

As an undergraduate, Potoshnik was a strength and conditioning intern from August 2014-December 2015 at Washington State, working primarily with the Cougars soccer, swimming, rowing, baseball and track and field teams. 

During that time, Potoshnik also was an exercise physiology and performance laboratory research assistant. 
A Renton, Washington, native, Potoshnik is an NSCA certificed strength and conditioning specialist, a certified USA Weightlifting sports performance coach (level 1) and is American Heart Association CPR/AED certified.