Report: Indiana to Hire Aaron Wellman as New Strength and Conditioning Coach

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Written by Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)

As first reported by Matt Weaver of Peegs.com, the Indiana Hoosiers will hire Aaron Wellman to fill the hole left by David Ballou at strength and conditioning coach when Ballou left for Alabama. Wellman comes to IU after spending four seasons as the strength coach for the New York Football Giants of the NFL.

Prior to joining the Giants, Wellman was at Notre Dame as an assistant strength coach in 2015. The Ligonier, Indiana native is no stranger to the Big Ten conference. He began his coaching career in Bloomington as a graduate assistant at with IU football, baseball and softball for the 1997-98 seasons before being hired on full time with the Hoosiers as an assistant strength and conditioning coach from 1998-2001. He played four years of football at Manchester (Ind.) University.

Wellman has worked with sports outside of football as well as he worked with Michigan State’s football and assisted with the Spartans men’s and women’s basketball and ice hockey teams from 2001-2003. He returned to the state of Indiana as Ball State’s strength and conditioning coach from 2004-2009 under head football coach Brady Hoke before heading to San Diego State from 2009-2011. Wellman followed Hoke to Michigan in 2011 until 2014, before moving on to Notre Dame after Hoke was fired from Michigan.

According to his New York Giants profile on Giants.com, during his time at Michigan Wellman “was responsible for the yearly programming of strength, speed and football-specific conditioning. Wellman performed movement screenings to evaluate mobility and stability deficits along with subsequent programs to mitigate individual injury risk. He implemented athlete-monitoring systems including GPS and neuromuscular fatigue assessments.”