Yale Hires New Strength & Conditioning Coaches

Aug. 17, 2007

NEW HAVEN, Conn.--Joe Maher and Kathryn Whartenby have joined the Yale athletic staff as assistant strength & conditioning coaches, it was announced today. Maher comes to Yale after serving in a similar position at the University of Richmond for two years. Whartenby was most recently a part-time graduate assistant strength & conditioning coach at the University of Florida.

Maher was the assistant strength & conditioning coach at Richmond from 2005-07. The Spiders' football team won an Atlantic 10 Championship under his watch. During that time, he also served as head coach of the U-16AA Richmond Royals hockey club. Prior to that, he was a graduate assistant in the Kinesiology Department at LSU and a coach at the USA Weightlifting Development Center in Shrevport, La., from 2004-05. Maher also worked as an assistant sports physiologist at the U.S. Olympic Center's Athlete Performance Laboratory.

He played hockey at the University of Rhode Island and coached and competed in the 2005 Collegiate National Weightlifting Championships. Maher coached and co-directed the 2004 American Open Championships, coached at the 2005 Junior National Championships and co-directed the 2005 Pan-American Championships. He has written many articles on strength & conditioning and owns a master's degree in education.

Whartenby received a master's degree from Florida, where she worked with the women's basketball, soccer and gymnastics teams. She also helped design and implement a strength & conditioning program for the Gators' cheerleading squad. While at Florida, she also taught classes for the Sport and Fitness Program and developed a fitness program for the Florida Department of Corrections. Whartenby has also worked as a personal trainer. She received her bachelor's degree from Tusculum College in 2005.