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Steve Gisselman joined the UNC strength and conditioning program in 1999 and has been a full-time assistant since 2003. He assists the Director of Strength and Conditioning for Olympic Sports, Greg Gatz, in the daily operation of the Olympic Sport weight room. His primary responsibilities include developing and implementing strength and conditioning programs for field hockey, men's and women's golf, women's lacrosse, softball, men's and women's swimming, and the multi-event athletes and jumpers in track and field. In 2007 Gisselman helped the field hockey team to the NCAA Division I National Championship and ACC Championship. The team went 24-0 and allowed just 14 goals on the season. Leading the way was 2007 National Player of the Year Rachel Dawson, with whom Gisselman had the pleasure of working for five years. Gisselman has also helped the track and field, swimming, men's golf and women's tennis teams to ACC Championships. Along with those championship teams he has worked with multiple individual ACC champions and NCAA All-Americans. He has been fortunate enough to work with a select few NCAA champions, Olympians and NFL and MLL players. Gisselman utilizes technological innovations to enhance the functional assessment of each athlete. He also employs it to aid in designing exercise prescriptions for improving athletic performance and concomitantly reducing the incidence of injury. He has incorporated digital media and a number of computer software programs to improve his coaching abilities since arriving at UNC. He was able to acquire most of these skills while in the Human Movement Science master's degree program at UNC. Prior to arriving at UNC Gisselman worked at the University of Wisconsin at Madison as a strength and conditioning intern. He was part of the strength coaching staff that helped the Badgers win a Big Ten championship and Rose Bowl Title in 1998-99. While at Wisconsin Gisselman was privileged to work with many outstanding young athletes who currently play in the NFL including Heisman Trophy winner Ron Dayne. Gisselman is a 1999 graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology. Gisselman is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association and a Level 1 Club Coach through USA Weightlifting. In an effort to stay active Gisselman competes in many local, regional and national triathlons, mountain bike and road cycling races. He has competed for the past five years in the XTERRA Off-Road Triathlon Series and is a three-time national championship qualifier, having his strongest showing in the Midwest Regional Championship in 2005. He currently races for the Independent Fabrication Grassroots Team out of Somerville, Mass. Along with designing his own training plan he currently provides personal instruction to a number of multi-sport athletes and cyclists. |
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