Tyler Farwell Named Assistant Strength Coach
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Tyler Farwell was named Wednesday an Assistant Strength Coach at the University of Miami. Farwell will primarily work with the school’s women’s basketball and swimming teams.
Farwell holds certifications from the American Red Cross, Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association, National Strength and Conditioning Association, and USA Weightlifting.
“I am grateful and excited to be a part of the University of Miami family,” Farwell said. “It is truly an honor to join such a prestigious athletics department. I look forward to helping our student-athletes compete at the highest level possible on the court, in the pool and in the classroom.”
Most recently, Farwell has been an exercise physiologist at Homestead Air Reserve Base since March 2014. He worked on physical activity programs with government personnel, provided training to support units and was the expert on exercise science, among other responsibilities.
In addition, Farwell has owned and operated Tyler Farwell Strength Inc. in Miami since May 2013. There, Farwell developed individual work and nutrition plans, created and implemented injury prevention, flexibility and mobility protocols, performed tests on USA Sailing Team members, and oversaw all aspects of athletic performance. Through Tyler Farwell Strength Inc., he was also the head strength coach at Gulliver Prep from November 2013 to May 2015.
“The strength and conditioning coach is an integral part of every top-level women’s basketball program, as that is the person who sets the tone of your culture in the offseason and summer,” Miami head women’s basketball coach Katie Meier said. “Tyler is an excellent addition to this amazing staff. Our players will have discipline and will play with a high level of energy and toughness.”
Prior to coming to South Florida, Farwell was a graduate assistant/assistant strength and conditioning coach at Illinois State University for three years. He worked with nearly a dozen Redbird athletic programs, including men’s and women’s basketball, swimming and diving, football, and baseball. Farwell’s responsibilities with different sports ranged from implementing nutritional supplementation programs to coordinating yearly strength programs, along with additional work such as helping design the Redbird Performance Nutrition program.
From October 2009 to May 2011, Farwell was a performance coach at the Orthopedic and Sports Enhancement Center in Bloomington, Ill. He conducted resistance training demonstrations, supervised workouts and administered Frappier Acceleration protocols.
“Tyler is going to be a great addition to our athletics department and our swimming program. His driving force is the athletes and their success, and you can sense his passion when you are around him,” Miami head swimming coach Andy Kershaw said. “When you combine that passion with his diverse knowledge, you get someone who is going to make a major impact on our swimming program and our women’s basketball program.”
Farwell also has additional experience with the United States Armed Forces. From July 2004 to December 2008, he was the leading petty officer/range safety officer on the USS Peleiu in San Diego. There, Farwell earned the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal and was certified as an Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist.
A native of Sterling, Ill., Farwell graduated Suma Cum Laude from Illinois State in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in in Exercise Science. He returned to his alma mater for graduate school and earned his Master of Science in Exercise Physiology in 2012. Farwell is also nearing completion of Didactic Program in Dietetics Coursework at Illinois State.
