Joined Georgia State Staff: May 2008
Georgia State head strength and conditioning coach Ken Coggins possesses more than two decades of experience developing collegiate and professional athletes.
Coggins joined the Georgia State staff in May 2008 from Charleston Southern, where he was the program’s first full-time strength and conditioning coach and worked with all sports in one year there.
He previously worked as head strength and conditioning coach at Jackson State (2003-07), Belhaven College (1999-2003), Southwest Missouri State (1995-99), Arkansas Little Rock (1990-95) and Delta State (1988). He also served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Memphis State (1988-90).
Coggins has worked high-profile professional athletes, including NBA standout Derek Fisher of the Los Angeles Lakers, with whom Coggins worked at Arkansas Little Rock.
Coggins, 47, earned his B.S. degree in fitness management and exercise physiology from Mississippi State University in 1986.
A member of the Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Association, he is certified by the National Association of Speed-Strength & Conditioning and the International Sports Association (Speed-Strength Certification) and is a graduate of the Speed-Strength & Quickness Training Seminar at the Sports Conditioning Institute.
He has also traveled extensively to broaden his knowledge, studying at the Lenin Institute for Physical Culture in Moscow, Russia; the German Institute of Physical Culture and Sports Science in Leipzig, Germany; and the Bulgarian Institute of Physical Culture and Sports.
Coggins and his wife, Tina, have a 13-year-old daughter, Lauren.
