Sam Daoust was named Northwestern State’s director of Olympic sports strength and conditioning in December 2021.
Daoust made an immediate impact upon his arrival, taking over strength and conditioning programming and implementation for NSU baseball, soccer, volleyball and softball while also assisting with the Demon football team’s strength and conditioning program. He has added men’s and women’s basketball responsibilities for the 2022-23 seasons while managing the NSU strength and conditioning interns and graduate assistants.
Daoust came to Northwestern State after a short stint as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Newberry College, a Division II school in South Carolina. While at Newberry, Daoust designed and implemented year-round strength and conditioning programs for Newberry’s men’s basketball, men’s soccer, wrestling and volleyball teams while assisting with football.
Daoust began the American portion of his coaching career as an intern at Boston College where he worked with the Eagles football team, including 2022 first-round NFL Draft pick Zion Johnson.
Prior to coming to the United States, Daoust was a strength and conditioning coach at his alma mater, Laurentian University, in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
At Laurentian, Daoust coached five provincial medalists, five Canadian national qualifier swimmers and helped the men’s soccer team qualify for the 2019 playoffs.
A two-time Laurentian graduate (B.S. in Kinesiology and master’s in human kinetics), Daoust also was the head strength and conditioning coach at Healthy Living Elite Training for two years and was a strength and conditioning intern with the Ottawa Fury FC of the North American Soccer League.
He is a National Strength and Conditioning Association certified strength and conditioning specialist. While earning his master’s degree, Daoust had an article published in the Journal of Exercise and Nutrition.
