Randy Towner enters his second season as the team's strength and conditioning coach. Towner oversees the strength, conditioning and nutrition of the student-athletes on the men's basketball team.
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Towner has helped the players become stronger in a number of ways, including strength, agility, overall health, team unity and mental toughness. He has also applied some power development phases to the student-athletes' regime, along with a system to track and monitor the load that each student-athlete is currently facing.
Towner has implemented a myriad of new strength training strategies with a number of physical challenges where the players compete as both individuals and as a team to earn points. The competitions include weight lifts, vertical leaps, sled pushes, tire flips, and 225-pound track bar lifts.
Additionally, Towner has helped contribute to the decline of injuries. Prior to his arrival, the team suffered through three season-ending injuries and 80-plus missed games due to various setbacks. Last season, with Towner's help, the team had players miss just eight total games due to injury.
Towner most recently worked as the assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Utah where he worked with the softball, swimming and diving, volleyball, and men's and women's basketball teams. He also spent three years coaching basketball at Rowland Hall High School in Salt Lake.
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Towner is a graduate of the University of Utah. He has a degree in exercise and sports science.
