Clarion Athletics

Jeremiah Welch enters his first year at the head strength & conditioning coach for the Golden Eagle in 2021-22. He came to Clarion with years of experience in the field, most of it coming at the NCAA Division I level.

Welch has a CSCS certification from the National Strength and Conditioning Association, is a USA Weightlifting Level 1 coach, and holds CPT and EP-C certifications from the American College of Sports Medicine. Earlier in 2021 he worked as a strength & conditioning intern with Notre Dame’s football program, and before that spent a year as the director of men’s basketball strength & conditioning for Tennessee-Martin. He oversaw all aspects of the men’s basketball team’s strength & conditioning program, including performance, recovery, nutrition and corrective exercises. He also worked as a strength & conditioning intern at Clemson in 2020.
 
Before going to Clemson, Welch was the head strength & conditioning coach and men’s basketball assistant coach at University of Valley Forge from 2019-20. He directed performance for eight sports there while also helping the men’s basketball team to an 11-win improvement from the previous season. From 2017-19, Welch was the strength & conditioning coach for Clarke University’s women’s volleyball team, helping them to a 52-18 record, and prior to that was a sports performance coach at Pure Athletics in Folsom, Calif.
 
Welch was a two-sport athlete at University of Providence, where he competed in both men’s basketball and men’s track & field. He was named Most Outstanding Student in 2017. In 2020 Welch was named an NCAA Emerging Leader. He graduated from University of Providence in 2017 with a Bachelors of Science in Human Health and Performance. In 2021 he completed his Masters of Science in Exercise Science/Sports Performance from Concordia.