Ervin Young returned to Miami as associate strength and conditioning coach in 2025 after one season at Tennessee.
Young was on the Hurricanes’ staff in 2022-23 after spending the previous two seasons on the Missouri Tigers’ strength & conditioning staff, most recently as the associate director of football athletic performance.
Prior to his time with the Tigers, Young also worked as an assistant strength & conditioning coach at Vanderbilt (2019-20) and an assistant director of strength & conditioning at the University of Kansas (2014-19).
Young graduated from Cumberland University, where he played running back for the Phoenix, in 2011. He went on to earn his master’s degree in sport exercise pedagogy from Cumberland in 2014.
Young is a certified strength & conditioning coach by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa) and is also a certified strength & conditioning specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).
