Dan Wirth

Biography

In his ninth year with Tennessee Athletics, Assistant Athletics Director of Sports Performance Dan Wirth is responsible for the supervision and development of all strength, speed, and conditioning programs for baseball, basketball, cheer/dance, golf, rowing, tennis, track & field/cross country, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, and volleyball. Wirth came to Rocky Top in November of 2017. He is instrumental in working with the Sports Performance staff to develop and coordinate Tennessee Athletics' performance science initiatives and serves on the Athletics Sports Performance Team and Sport Science Committee. A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Wirth, 55, was promoted to Director of Strength and Conditioning at the University of Arizona in 1994. He directed all aspects of UA's varsity athletic strength training program for six years and managed strength and conditioning facilities for 19 sports and more than 550 student-athletes. He also worked directly with Arizona's football and men's basketball teams. During his tenure at the helm of the Wildcats' strength and conditioning efforts, Wirth developed programming for numerous All-Americans and Olympic champions in swimming, golf, basketball and football, as well as world-record holders in Power Lifting. He trained Arizona's 1997 national championship men's basketball team as well as the Wildcats' 1998 football team, which went 12-1 and attained a No. 4 national ranking. In 2000, Wirth was selected as the NSCA Pac-10 Strength and