Beau Scott enters his 12th year overall at Denison where he serves as the Director of Sports Performance and Head Strength and Conditioning Coach.
Scott currently is directly responsible for the training of the football, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and softball teams. In addition, over his time at Denison, he has served as the head strength and conditioning coach for the men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s golf, women’s soccer, men’s and women’s basketball, and women’s fencing teams. He has also served as an adjunct professor in the Health, Exercise, and Sport Studies (HESS) department teaching multiple directed and independent studies, as well as developing and teaching Essentials of Performance and Exercise in the spring of 2020.
Scott currently oversees the implementation and integration of various forms of technology within the sports performance space. Denison’s athletic teams utilize Velocity Based Training (VBT) and force plate technology. In conjunction with the Data Analytics Department, Scott has been able to implement this technology to monitor neuromuscular fatigue and performance metrics. In 2019, Scott was 1 of 100 strength coaches (1 of 3 from NCAA Division III) chosen from around the world to participate in the biannual High-Performance Strength and Conditioning Symposium at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
He has worked in the sport performance field since 2004 serving as a high school teacher, coach, and administrator, in addition to completing a one-year strength and conditioning internship at Miami University. He received his bachelor’s degree from Hanover College and his master’s degree from Ohio Dominican University in Exercise Physiology. He holds certifications from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) as a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) and certified personal trainer (NSCA-CPT), as well as from the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) as a corrective exercise specialist (CES). Scott has research experience in the areas of force development, biomechanics, muscle recovery,
and blood flow restriction (BFR) training.
During his time at Denison, the Denison Strength Internship program has been an integral part of the student experience for those students entering the sports performance field. Denison Strength interns have gone on to secure internships, graduate assistant positions, and full time positions at Clemson University, Auburn University, Indiana University, The University of Iowa, The University of Minnesota, Boston College, UC Davis, Georgetown University, Coastal Carolina University, George Washington University, The University of Maryland, North Dakota State University, Rutgers University, The University of Central Florida, Duke University, and
Miami University.
Over the course of his career at Denison, the teams that he has trained have won 51 NCAC Conference Championships (23 NCAC Regular Season Championships, 28 NCAC Tournament Championships). In addition, teams that he has worked with have won 6 NCAA National Championships and have finished in the top four in the country 12 different times. During his time at Denison, 10 different Denison athletes have been awarded as National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) All-American Athletes.
