Andrew Swasey Named Strength & Conditioning Coach
March 6, 2001
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (www.hurricanesports.com) – Andrew Swasey has been named UM’s Head Strength & Conditioning Coach, UM head football coach Larry Coker officially announced today. Swasey, 29, will be in charge of Miami’s strength and conditioning operation for football, an undertaking that involves intensive work with a team consisting of more than 100 individuals on a year-round basis.
“Coach Swasey will assume complete control of our strength and conditioning work,” Coker said. “Really, this is just a continuation of a role he shared with Rob Phillips last season. Andrew has a unique combination of experience, having previous experience as a defensive backs coach along with his strength and conditioning background. He is the right man to address the specific needs of our football student-athletes. We’re lucky to have him.”
Phillips, who shared the title of Co-Strength and Conditioning Coach at UM last year, left recently to join the staff of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns. Swasey takes the reins of the operation after spending the 2000 football season in charge of speed and agility for the Hurricanes. He also will be in charge of UM’s strength and conditioning staff of four coaches who supervise all the conditioning needs of Miami’s other scholarship sports.
A former defensive back at Baylor University, Swasey is in his second stint at UM. He first worked as an assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Hurricanes from 1997-99. That was before spending one season at the University of Houston as defensive backs coach in 1999. Swasey’s coaching career began with at Copperas Cove (Texas) High School, where he was defensive backs coach from 1995-97.
Swasey was born in Miami on June 15, 1971. He lettered two seasons for the Bears, playing extensively at strong safety in 1992 and 1993. Swasey, a graduate of Miami’s Carol City High School, started for Baylor in 1993 after spending the 1992 season as a backup. He arrived at Baylor after an outstanding junior college career at Fort Scott (Kansas) Junior College where he was a second-team JC All-American in 1991 and earned first-team all-conference honors.
A 1995 graduate of Baylor, Swasey received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology in 1995.
