Soccer
Mike Montoro
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia College soccer coach Wealthy Rodriguez has introduced that Parker Whiteman has been employed because the assistant head energy coach/director of ability improvement for the Mountaineer soccer program.
Whiteman reunites with Rodriguez, with whom he labored at 4 earlier stops. In 2024, he was the pinnacle energy and conditioning coach at Jacksonville State and was a part of Rodriguez’s staffs at West Virginia, Michigan and Arizona.
Final season, the Gamecocks completed with a 9-5 document, received the Convention USA championship and earned a spot in a second straight bowl sport.
Earlier than final season, Whiteman served a five-year stint as the pinnacle of soccer energy and conditioning at Sam Houston, the place the Bearkats had been one of the vital dominant applications in FCS. Previous to main SHSU into FBS and Convention USA alongside the Gamecocks in 2023, the Bearkats produced 4 successful seasons, two convention titles and the FCS Nationwide Championship in 2020.
The Keyser, West Virginia, native spent 11 seasons with Rodriguez, starting previous to the 2006 season when he was employed as an assistant energy and conditioning coach at WVU. After being a part of two seasons that noticed the Mountaineers go 21-4 with a Massive East Championship and journeys to the Gator and Fiesta Bowls, Whiteman made the transfer to Michigan to be Rodriguez’s assistant energy and conditioning coach for 3 seasons.
He spent the 2011 season as a energy and conditioning coach at BARWIS Strategies at Arizona earlier than being named the Wildcats’ director of ability improvement in 2012. He spent the following six seasons on Rodriguez’s workers at UA, serving to the Wildcats to 5 bowl video games and a Pac-12 Division title.
Whiteman spent one other transient stint at BARWIS Strategies earlier than becoming a member of the Bearkats previous to the 2019 season.
He performed soccer at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, the place he earned his diploma in bodily training and well being in 2004. He then acquired his grasp’s in train science from McDaniel Faculty in 2006.
He began his profession as a energy coach at Velocity Sports activities Efficiency in 2004 and spent two seasons as a energy intern/coach for the Baltimore Ravens earlier than becoming a member of Rodriguez’s workers at WVU.
