TicketsBrady Collins was named the director of football sports performance at the University of Cincinnati in January 2017.
He joins the Bearcats staff after spending the past two seasons at Ohio State as a strength and conditioning coach with the football program. It was his second stint with the Buckeyes, as he served as a strength and conditioning intern for five Olympic sports and football in 2009.
A 2009 graduate of Otterbein College, he played four seasons of football and was team captain as a senior, helping lead the Cardinals to the 2009 Division III playoffs. Collins went south after graduation and his Ohio State position to further his career.
In August 2009 Collins was a volunteer strength coach at the University of Kentucky and later spent part of that summer interning for the Cincinnati Bengals. He became a graduate assistant coach at Kentucky in 2010 and a year later was named an assistant strength coach, working with the football program and also the NCAA champion Wildcats’ basketball team.
In January 2013 he moved further into SEC country, accepting an assistant strength and conditioning position at Mississippi State University, where he stayed for two-and-a-half years before he was hired back at Ohio State in January 2015 by Mickey Marotti.
Collins grew up in Galena, Ohio, and is a graduate of Olentangy HS. He has degrees in health promotion and sports sciences from Otterbein and he has a master’s in kinesiology from Kentucky.
He is Strength and Conditioning Coach Certified (SCCC), is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and a Certified Sport Performance Coach with United States of America Weightlifting (USAW).
Collins and his wife, the former Allie Leet, from Powell, Ohio, are the parents of a daughter, Kaylee, and a son, Crew.