Meyer Strength & Conditioning Annex
The Wartburg Athletics Meyer Strength & Conditioning Annex project was officially completed in April of 2021.
It offers a larger footprint to a growing intercollegiate athletics program and allow for integration with student-faculty research opportunities in exercise science.
The two-story addition replaces the 3,500-square-foot Canfield Strength & Conditioning Room, and is roughly 25 percent larger and features 17 weight platforms, allowing two teams to utilize the space at one time.

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A Wartburg Fund the Fortress fundraiser helped the project outfit each weight platform with the EliteForm motion tracking system, normally seen in Division I and professional sports programs. Wartburg is the
only Division III team to use EliteForm throughout its weight room.
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Ethan Hayes, Director of Sports Performance
Hayes returns to his alma mater in fall 2023 after spending the last year as a sports performance graduate assistant at Tusculum University, where he designed and implemented strength and conditioning programs for eight teams.
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From May to August of 2022, Hayes served as an Olympic Strength and Condition Intern at the University of Tennessee Olympic Sports Performance Department. He also was a teaching assistant at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte in the kinesiology department for one year.
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The Cedar Falls, Iowa native spent two years as a strength and conditioning intern during his time at Wartburg, and was a four-year member of the Wartburg baseball team from 2017-21. He helped coach Waverly-Shell Rock high school baseball from 2019-21 and served as head coach for WSR's 11-13U club baseball from 2018-21.
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Hayes earned his master of arts degree in sports management this May from Tusculum University.
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He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association as well as CPR/AED certified by the American Red Cross.
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