Dierking Promoted to Director of Olympic Sports Performance
September 20, 2018 | General
Dierking is in his 14th year with the University of Louisville sports performance team
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - University of Louisville vice president for athletics Vince Tyra announced Thursday the promotion of Jason Dierking to Director of Olympic Sports Performance.
Dierking is in his 14th year with Louisville's sports performance team, where he is responsible for attracting and retaining a team of performance specialists, organizing and executing a comprehensive portfolio of athlete development services, and creating the culture, environment and atmosphere to optimize athlete, team and employee success. He is also charged with creating organizational structure, implementing training systems and protocols, managing and evaluating program and staff progress, managing infrastructure and continuously advancing the program and department agendas, both internally and externally. Dierking assumed the role previously held by Teena Murray, who is now the Senior Director of Athlete Health and Performance for the NBA's Sacramento Kings.
"We are extreme grateful to have Jason step into the leadership role as the Director of Sports Performance," said UofL Senior Woman Administrator/Assistant Athletic Director Christine Herring. "He brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in this industry and will continue to create continuity for all of our Olympics sports in strength and conditioning."
Prior to his promotion, Dierking served as an assistant director of Olympic sports performance at UofL where he worked directly with men's and women's swimming, men's soccer and men's golf. Dierking joined in 2005 after serving as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Indiana University from 2001-05. He also was a graduate assistant strength coach at Indiana from 1998-2001. During the summer of 2000, Dierking worked as the strength and conditioning intern at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, NY, where he helped train athletes that were preparing for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Dierking is certified through the National Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCS) and the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (MSCC), as well as USA Weightlifting (USAW), Functional Movement Systems (FMS), and Precision Nutrition (PN).
Dierking earned his master's degree in exercise physiology from Indiana University and a bachelor's degree in adult physical fitness from Eastern Kentucky University, where he also played baseball for the Colonels. Dierking is a competitive runner and triathlete, and is a marathon finisher, a two-time Ironman triathlon finisher, and a 10-time half-Ironman finisher. During his second Ironman, he started a charity for spinal cord injury patients at the Frazier Rehab Institute in Louisville, which has since raised over $250,000 to pay housing and transportation costs for individuals in the Outpatient Spinal Cord Medicine Program.
