Interview With Jay DeMayo

For the past couple of years, my University’s (Bucknell) men’s basketball team has played the University of Richmond and there has been some really competitive games between these two teams.  This year Richmond traveled up to Bucknell and my long time friend and Richmond’s Head Strength Coach Jay DeMayo contacted me to let me know he was traveling up with them.  I jumped at the opportunity to meet up with Jay to catch up and talk shop.  He is a wealth of knowledge and respected in the College Strength Coach community.

I asked Jay if he would mind sitting down with me for a non-scripted chat/interview and we recorded it to share with you.  Below is Jay’s bio that I stole off his website www.CVASPS.com .  I would recommend checking it out, it is full of good training information from a variety of contributing strength coaches and weight training professionals.  I am also going to ask Jay for a guest post that I will share with you when he is able to get us one during his busy schedule.

Jay DeMayo has been the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for Men’s and Women’s Basketball at the University of Richmond since October 2005.  Jay is a graduate of the State University of New York College at Cortland where he was a two year starter on the Men’s Soccer team.  Prior to taking over the responsibilities of Men’s and Women’s Basketball at UR Jay worked with every team on campus as the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach working.  During his tenure at Richmond, Coach DeMayo has worked with five All-Americans, and 10 Atlantic 10 championship teams.  Presently Jay is also responsible for the dry land training for NOVA Aquatics LLC, one of the top youth swim clubs on the eastern seaboard where he has coached over twenty athlete’s whom have qualified for Olympic Trials.

Coach DeMayo’s constant effort to better himself as a coach has brought him numerous certifications.  Coach DeMayo has his Level I coaching certification from USA Track and Field, is certified as an American Kettlebell Club Coach, United States Weightlifting Sport Performance Coach and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

Coach DeMayo has also been a presenter for four consecutive years at the Pennsylvania State Clinic at Juniata College.  At the PA State Clinic Coach DeMayo has spoken on “Training Soccer Players, Developing a 3 Day Strength Training Program,”  “Max Effort Training for Sports,” and “Lift Preparation, The Next Evolution of the Warm Up,” “Developing a Progression for Auxiliary Lifts” and “Teaching the Squat and Deadlift.”  Coach DeMayo has also presented at the University of Richmond Sports Performance Clinic and with the Cal Ripken Jr. Baseball Academy.  Coach DeMayo has also been involved in developing the Basketball Strength Symposium in Raleigh, NC, and the Central VA Sports Performance Seminar.

I would personally like to thank Coach DeMayo for taking the time to sit down to have this discussion.

Hope this helps!

To your health,

Jerry