Director of Football Sports Performance
Collins is entering his third season as the Director of Football Strength and Conditioning at University of Wisconsin. He arrived in Madison in January of 2023 after six seasons at Cincinnati, and a handful of stops around college athletics.
With the Bearcats, Collins revolutionized the program’s comprehensive sports performance efforts, playing an instrumental role in Cincinnati’s back-to-back AAC championship squads in 2020 and 2021, a trip to The College Football Playoffs, and its nine NFL Draft picks in 2022.
Before Cincinnati, Collins spent two seasons at Ohio State as a strength and conditioning coach with the football program working under Mickey Marotti. The stint was his second with the Buckeyes; He served as an intern in Columbus for Olympic sports during his senior year of undergrad in the winter of 2009. Prior to his time at Ohio State, he spent 2.5 years as an assistant at Mississippi State working with Matt Balis and Rick Court. Before his time in Starkville, MS, he worked as an intern, graduate assistant, and assistant strength coach at University of Kentucky from 2009-2012, working under Ray “Rock” Oliver and Ted Lambrinides with Football and Men’s Basketball, and was the Head Rifle Strength Coach as a GA, when they won the National Championship.
Collins grew up in Galena, Ohio, and is a graduate of Olentangy HS. He has degrees in health promotion and sports sciences from Otterbein University, where he played college football, and he has a master’s in kinesiology from University of Kentucky. Collins and his wife, Allie, are the parents of a daughter, Kaylee (8) and a son, Crew (5).
