Jason Nehring

Biography

Jason Nehring joins the Racers for his first season in 2025-26 as men's basketball Strength & Conditioning Coach and also works with the men's golf program. He brings more than three decades of experience in the field of strength & conditioning. Prior to coming to MSU, he worked 12 years at Seton Hall with all programs including men's basketball. He had career stops at Penn State working with all sports including men's basketball and football, and at Kentucky, where he trained student-athletes with men's and women's basketball. Nehring worked in the National Football League in four seasons with the Minnesota Vikings, and was part of the 1998 Vikings team under Coach Dennis Green when the Vikings broke the NFL's season offense record with then rookie wide receiver Randy Moss. A 1996 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Nehring was a student-athlete with the UWL football team and was a member of two national championship teams at La Crosse. He earned a Master's of Science in Kinesiology and Health Promotion-Biomechanics Emphasis from Kentucky.