Temple University Athletics
Football
Ohrt, Brad
Brad Ohrt
- Title:
- Head Strength & Conditioning Coach
- Email:
- brad.ohrt@temple.edu
- Phone:
- 215-204-4694
Brad Ohrt has spent over two decades in college football joining Temple in 2019 following eight years at Northern Illinois University as Director of Sports Performance. Ohrt oversaw strength and conditioning efforts of the 17 Huskie Athletics teams and worked primarily with the NIU football program. In 2014, he received the prestigious title of Master Strength & Conditioning Coach by the Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association.
During his tenure, the Huskies appeared in six Mid-American Conference championship games (2011-15 and 2018), winning the league title in 2011, ‘12, '14 and '18. In addition to the team’s success, Ohrt has trained two league MVPs and one Heisman Trophy finalist, Jordan Lynch. Sixteen Huskies' players have gone on to play professional football during his tenure and 11 began the 2017 campaign on an NFL or CFL roster.Â
Before NIU, Ohrt spent three seasons at Western Carolina, where he was director of strength and conditioning from 2008-10. He spent the 2007 football season on the Miami Dolphins’ strength staff following tenures at Western Kentucky (2005-07) and Louisiana-Lafayette (2002-05).
Ohrt spent 2001-02 leading the staff at Western Carolina, helping to develop the WCU men’s and women’s basketball, football and baseball teams as well as seven other programs.
He served as an assistant strength coach at USC from 1998-2001, working primarily with the Trojan men’s and women’s basketball teams in addition to assisting with the USC football program.
Ohrt’s first head strength and conditioning coaching position was at Wingate University in 1997-98. He earned his master’s degree from Kansas in 1997, where he was a graduate assistant strength coach for the Jayhawks.
The New Ulm, Minn. native was an All-American offensive lineman at Appalachian State in 1994 and earned All-Southern Conference honors his junior and senior seasons. As a senior, he was named a first-team FCS All-American by The Sports Network and Don Hansen’s Football Gazette, and was a third-team Associated Press All-American. He was a three-year letter winner for the Mountaineers and earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise science.Â
Ohrt is Strength and Conditioning Coach Certified through the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCA) and also the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). Ohrt and his wife, Ashley, have a son, Carson.
During his tenure, the Huskies appeared in six Mid-American Conference championship games (2011-15 and 2018), winning the league title in 2011, ‘12, '14 and '18. In addition to the team’s success, Ohrt has trained two league MVPs and one Heisman Trophy finalist, Jordan Lynch. Sixteen Huskies' players have gone on to play professional football during his tenure and 11 began the 2017 campaign on an NFL or CFL roster.Â
Before NIU, Ohrt spent three seasons at Western Carolina, where he was director of strength and conditioning from 2008-10. He spent the 2007 football season on the Miami Dolphins’ strength staff following tenures at Western Kentucky (2005-07) and Louisiana-Lafayette (2002-05).
Ohrt spent 2001-02 leading the staff at Western Carolina, helping to develop the WCU men’s and women’s basketball, football and baseball teams as well as seven other programs.
He served as an assistant strength coach at USC from 1998-2001, working primarily with the Trojan men’s and women’s basketball teams in addition to assisting with the USC football program.
Ohrt’s first head strength and conditioning coaching position was at Wingate University in 1997-98. He earned his master’s degree from Kansas in 1997, where he was a graduate assistant strength coach for the Jayhawks.
The New Ulm, Minn. native was an All-American offensive lineman at Appalachian State in 1994 and earned All-Southern Conference honors his junior and senior seasons. As a senior, he was named a first-team FCS All-American by The Sports Network and Don Hansen’s Football Gazette, and was a third-team Associated Press All-American. He was a three-year letter winner for the Mountaineers and earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise science.Â
Ohrt is Strength and Conditioning Coach Certified through the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCA) and also the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). Ohrt and his wife, Ashley, have a son, Carson.
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