Mickey Marotti

Mickey Marotti is in his sixth year as the strength and conditioning coordinator at Notre Dame after joining the staff in February 1998. “Coach Mick”, as he is affectionately called by his student athletes, came to Notre Dame after serving as the strength and conditioning coach at the University of Cincinnati for eight years.

In his role at Notre Dame, he is responsible for the total development of many prominent Notre Dame and National Football League players including Anthony Weaver and Jeff Faine. Also under his auspices are the Notre Dame sports nutrition area and the sports specific speed programs.

Marotti coordinated the strength and conditioning program for 20 sports at Cincinnati and also worked in the areas of diet analysis and planning and assisted in student-athlete rehabilitation from injuries. He is certified through the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches association (CSCCa), as well as the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).

He previously spent two years, beginning in 1988, as assistant strength coach at West Virginia. Marotti spent 1987-88 as a graduate assistant strength coach at Ohio State, while at the same time served as head strength coach at Grove City High School in Grove City, Ohio. A speaker at numerous clinics and symposiums, he has published a number of articles in the strength and conditioning area and developed sport performance clinics for junior high and high school student-athletes.

The Ambridge, Pa., native earned four letters in football as a fullback at West Liberty State, serving as a team tri-captain in 1986 and winning first team NAIA All-Academic honors in 1987.

Born Dec.24, 1964, he earned his Bachelors of Science Degree in Exercise Physiology from West Liberty State in 1987, a Master of Arts in Strength Training and Athletic Conditioning from Ohio State in 1988 and a Master of Science in Sports Medicine from West Virginia in 1990. Marotti and his wife, the former Susan Laffey, have one son, Mitchell, and one daughter, Madison.