Tyler Shumate was named Ohio Athletics' Director of Stength and Conditioning on May 24, 2024.
Shumate comes to Ohio by way of the University of New Mexico, where he served as the Associate Director of Sport Performance since Jan. 2024. Prior to working with the Lobos football program, Shumate was the Associate AD of Sports Performance at Northern Arizona from June 2021 – December 2023, where he planned and implemented all aspects of training for the football team on top of overseeing the NAU Sports Performance Department.
From Jan. 2018 – June 2021, Shumate was the Assistant Football Development and Performance Coach at his alma mater, Virginia. While there, he also served as the director of the UVA Sport Performance Internship program.
Shumate made his second of two stops at Arizona State in May 2017, returning as a sport performance graduate assistant after working as a sport performance intern during the summer of 2016. Between his two tours of ASU, Shumate assisted eight different sports, including football, volleyball, women’s gymnastics and water polo.
Shumate earned a bachelor’s in exercise science and a minor in coaching at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio. He continued his education at Virginia, where he earned a Master of Education, specializing in higher education and intercollegiate athletics administration.
