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University of Massachusets Athletics
Staff Directory
- Title:
- Assistant Strength Coach
Jeff Stern joins the Massachusetts football program as a Sports Performance Coach after spending two years as the assistant strength and conditioning coach at Iowa. He also spent the 2019 season with Iowa football as a strength and conditioning intern.
During Stern’s time with Iowa, the Hawkeyes won 18 games across two seasons, including 10 wins and capturing the Big Ten West Division in 2023. Iowa earned berths to the Citrus and Music City Bowls after the 2023 and 2024 seasons, respectively, and finished the 2023 year ranked No. 24 nationally.
Prior to Iowa, Stern served as an assistant director of strength and conditioning at Central Michigan. There, he implemented strength and conditioning programs for softball and volleyball student-athletes, and assisted football’s strength, speed and conditioning drills. Stern was also responsible for the refueling station for the Chippewas.
Stern had two stints at Merrimack College, first spending the 2020-21 year as a graduate fellow, followed by the 2021 fall semester as an assistant strength and conditioning coach. While on staff, he executed speed, strength and conditioning programs for football, track and field throwers, women’s basketball and women’s tennis.
Before Merrimack, Stern was an assistant strength coach at Toyota Racing Development in Cornelius, North Carolina, and held a strength and conditioning internship with the football program at the University of North Carolina.
Stern, a Marblehead, Massachusetts, native, earned his bachelor’s degree in applied exercise science with a concentration in sports performance in 2020 from Springfield College and his master’s in exercise and sport science from Merrimack in 2021. Stern was a running back for four seasons with the Springfield Pride football team.
Stern is a certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), is Strength and Conditioning Coach Certified (SCCC), is United States Weightlifting Certified (USAW-1) and is certified for CPR and AED.
