TAMPA, JULY 14, 2020 – University of South Florida men’s basketball head coach Brian Gregory announced Tuesday that Travis Wallace has been hired as the program’s Strength and Conditioning Coach.
Wallace arrives in Tampa following two seasons as the Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for the men’s and women’s basketball programs at Florida Gulf Coast University. During his two seasons in Fort Myers, Wallace won back-to-back Atlantic Sun championships with the women’s team and helped the Eagles to the 2019 NCAA Tournament.
“Travis is a great addition to our coaching staff,” Gregory said. “He has the technical and relationship skills that are critical in strength and performance coaching, plus he brings an unmatched passion for helping student-athletes develop. The fact that he was a highly successful collegiate and professional player, and has trained players at the NBA level gives our program a unique advantage. I am looking forward to the positive impact Travis will make on South Florida basketball.”
Prior to joining the coaching staff at Florida Gulf Coast, Wallace worked as the personal strength coach for Toronto Raptors star Kyle Lowry since September 2017. Wallace developed and assisted with Lowry’s in-season program, traveled with him to help maintain an optimal fitness level and was key in him being able to play in 78 of 82 regular season games. Wallace continues to work with Lowry in the offseason.
In addition to those duties, Wallace helped play a role in assisting Toronto’s head strength and conditioning coach in pre-draft workouts and the NBA Summer League.
Prior to his time with the Toronto Raptors, Wallace served as a sports performance intern at UCF in the summer of 2017. In that role, he assisted with the men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball and baseball programs.
“I am extremely excited to join the USF men’s basketball staff as the strength and conditioning coach,” Wallace said. “I’ve followed the program closely over the years and I believe this university has the players, staff and resources to be a very successful program. I am looking forward to being a part of something special.”
Wallace also spent two years as a men’s basketball strength and conditioning graduate assistant at VCU, while also assisting with the volleyball program.
Wallace, who began his collegiate career at Florida A&M as a member of the men’s basketball team, transferred to North Florida for his final three seasons. Overall, the forward produced 1,338 career points, including 1,196 in just three seasons at UNF. He is one of just four players in the program’s history with at least 1,000 points and 500 rebounds (571) in a career.
The Marietta, Ga., native holds a Bachelor of Arts in criminal justice with a minor in sports management from North Florida. He went on to earn a master’s degree in educational leadership from VCU in 2017 and is currently working on a master’s in kinesiology from A.T. Still University.
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The USF men’s basketball team is led by head coach Brian Gregory. On March 22, 2017, Gregory was introduced as the 10th head coach in program history. He previously led programs at Georgia Tech (2011-16) and Dayton (2003-11). Gregory spent nearly a decade as an assistant coach under Michigan State’s Hall of Fame head coach Tom Izzo and helped the Spartans win the 2000 NCAA National Championship. Gregory owns nearly 300 career head coaching wins and six postseason appearances, including the 2010 NIT Championship. In his second season at the helm of the Bulls, Gregory led the team to the best win turnaround in the NCAA, the most single-season wins in school history and the 2019 College Basketball Invitational championship.
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