Developing an Athlete for the Game of Baseball
The objective of this presentation is to offer a practical, science based, year round approach in training from toenails to fingernails while taking into consideration specific position demands in order to optimize the body's kinetic chain to enhance performance while minimizing injury potential.
Lance Sewell enters his second season with Tennessee baseball as the program's head strength and conditioning coach after joining the Volunteers in January 2016.
With more than 20 years of experience at the collegiate, minor league and Major League levels, Sewell returned to Rocky Top after spending 12 years as a strength and conditioning coach for the University of Texas Longhorns, where he worked with the baseball, football, softball and women's golf programs.
During his time with the Longhorns, Sewell helped Texas to a National Championship title in 2005, five trips to the College World Series in 2004, 2005, 2009, 2011 and 2014, as well as six Big XII Conference Championships. He also assisted the Longhorns football program from 2004-08.
Prior to his stint with Texas from 2004-15, Sewell spent the 2001-04 seasons as head strength and conditioning coach for the University of Miami Hurricanes baseball team. While with the Canes, he also worked with the football, track and swimming programs, helping to implement strength training and individualized nutritional programs for student athletes.
Following a two-year graduate assistantship with the University of Tennessee (1995-96), where he designed baseball-specific strength and conditioning programs for the Volunteers including injury prevention and speed enhancement techniques, Sewell began his professional career in 1997 as the director of conditioning for the Cincinnati Reds minor league affiliates.
In 1998, Sewell was promoted to work with Cincinnati's Major League staff and began working individually with the Reds player staff, designing in-season and off-season workout schedules. He coordinated with team medical directors, trainers and physical therapists to customize rehabilitation programs and consulted with Major League players to improve their nutritional diets, strength and speed.
A graduate of Baylor University with a degree in Health and Fitness, Sewell also received a Master's degree in Sports Administration from the University of Tennessee.
