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Ryan Russell
Head Strength and Conditioning Coach

Ryan Russell serves as the director of strength and conditioning for Auburn football, continuing his professional partnership with Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn.

Russell held a similar position on Malzahn's staff at Arkansas State, where he served as director of athletic performance during the 2012 season.

From 2010-11, Russell served an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Auburn, working with the football program. He was also football's director of sports nutrition. He was an associate strength and conditioning coach for the Boise State football team from 2007-09.

He served professional internships as a strength and conditioning coach at Pitt (2005) and Louisville (2004-05) before coming to Auburn as a graduate assistant coach in 2005-06.

Russell played professional football in the Arena Football League for the Las Vegas Gladiators and the Louisville Fire in 2003.

Russell received his bachelor's degree in Exercise Science from West Liberty State in 2003. He played wide receiver for West Liberty State from 2000-02, receiving all-conference honors all three years. He earned his master's degree in Adult Education from Auburn in December 2006. He holds a number of professional certifications, including CSCS, SCCC, SNC, USAW Level 1, and FMS.

A native of Palm Springs, Calif., he met his wife, the former Sarah Porter (an Auburn graduate with a degree in nutrition and food science), during his first stint at Auburn.

Jeff Jones
Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach

Jeff Jones is the assistant strength and conditioning coach for Auburn football. He came to Auburn in December after serving in a similar role at Arkansas State, where he worked with head strength coach Ryan Russell assisting with the training of the football and baseball teams during the 2012 season.

From 2007-12, Jones was an assistant strength coach at Boise State, working with the BSU football, softball, gymnastics and men’s and women’s tennis squads. He worked as a graduate assistant at Boise State in 2006, after completing an internship with the Louisville strength and conditioning program.

A native of Rockford, Iowa, Jones is a 2006 graduate of Central College, where he played defensive back while receiving a bachelor’s degree in exercise science and health promotion. He earned a master’s degree in curriculum instruction in education from Boise State.

 

 

Bryan Tatum
Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach

Bryan Tatum enters his first year as assistant strength and conditioning coach
for Auburn football. He came to Auburn from NC State where he was the assistant
strength and conditioning coach for three years working with women’s basketball,
wrestling, men’s and women’s golf and rifle.
 
Prior to going to NC State, he was the assistant strength and conditioning coordinator
at Western Carolina (2008-2010) assisting with football and coordinating
women’s basketball, women’s soccer, softball, volleyball, women’s tennis, men’s
and women’s cross country, track and field and cheerleading.
 
Tatum spent two years as the graduate assistant strength and conditioning
coordinator at Western Kentucky (2006-2008), assisting with football while coordinating
men’s and women’s soccer.
 
He played football at West Liberty (W. Va.) State College and earned his
bachelor’s degree in exercise physiology with a minor in physical therapy in 2005.
A team captain as a junior and senior, he was part of the 2000 West Virginia
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champions. In 2002, he was an All-WVIAC
selection at defensive back.
 
Following graduation, Tatum served as the strength and conditioning coach
at West Liberty while also working as an assistant football and co-head track and
field coach.
 
He completed his Master’s degree in exercise physiology from Western
Kentucky in 2008. He holds a number of professional certifications, including
CSCS, USAW, FMS, CES, USATF, SAQ, ISSC, TPI. Tatum is married to the
former Alison Poe of Barboursville, W.Va., and they have three children, Jaxson,
Jett and Hensley.

Andre Wadley
Strength and Conditioning Intern

 

 

 

 

Anthony Kincy
Strength and Conditioning Intern