Warrior Beat: Dwain Bradshaw leads Hawaii football’s conditioning program
Early risers might have noticed there’s an added pep to the steps at UH football conditioning drills.
Credit goes to the enthusiastic leadership of Dwain Bradshaw, the Rainbow Warriors’ new director of football athletic performance.
Bradshaw, who holds degrees from Arizona State and Auburn, has a solid background in football and conditioning. He was a football intern at ASU, his alma mater, in 2014. After that, he was a graduate assistant at Auburn. In 2017, he was a strength/conditioning coach at USC. And last year, he was director of multi=directional movement at Texas Tech under Kliff Kingsbury, now the Arizona Cardinals’ head coach.
Since joining the Warriors, he has been implementing a system tailored for the overall team, positions and individuals.
While your alarm was snoozing, the Warriors began this morning’s drills at 6.
Warriors needed one and got a good one. Welcome aboard. I just wonder what brought Dwain Bradshaw to Hawaii after doing stints at USC and Texas Tech and with degrees from ASU and Auburn. Speaks well for coach Rolo and his program.
Football strength and conditioning has come a long way from the lift and sprint model. Glad to see that UH is prioritizing the modernization of the task.
Kev-1
I like the tile. It sounds well-rounded.
It seems like UH is redefining roles/tiles. For instance, interns are now quality-control coaches.
Holumua bows!
Back in our day, the late Terry Albritton’ the old shot putter, was our strength coach. As a nod to the era, he employed many Eastern European techniques. One was a Swedish running training where you intermix both full-out sprints and longer duration runs in a single training session called fartlek. Being from Halawa I didn’t know a thing about it, so I asked Terry one day: “what’s fartlek mean??” And he responded, “it means eat sh$t and die.” Good times….
What happened to Tommy Boy Heffernan?
What happened to Tommy Boy Heffernan ?
Mahalo Coach Bradshaw! Mahalo Warriors!
GO WARRIORS!!!
Much needed. Key injuries to key players, McDonald, Ursua, Tavai,… and lack of depth made for a tough second half of the season. Welcome aboard Dwain.
Re: prior day posts on basketball recruiting. Ferd today on one potential recruit in 1984, 6-11 Ricky Tunstall “liked UH on his visit but not the cockroaches.”
Tom Heffernan is head of strength and conditioning, he’s still there.
Tom Heffernan is head of strength and conditioning, he’s still there.
Seems like every time we get a new S/C coach they get hyped up like the last one was responsible for our guys being slow, weak, and getting injured, while this new one is going to be way better and now our players are going to dominate on the field. Who do you think was the best or who was good? Were there any bad ones? I thought DeLaura was great, we had guys squatting 500-plus and performing all-WAC. But he got dissed as soon as he was replaced.
Looking for big things from the defense this season! Let gooooo!!!!
Kalani:
Actually, the Warriors have had some pretty good S/C coordinators. DeLaura left to join JJ at SMU. Beemer went to Ohio State after Chow was let go. Reynolds departed because of personal reasons. Heffernan or a staff member filled in during the gap sessions.
Like recruits, new coaches’ effectiveness are seen as the season progresses. Same for the strength coaches and other key support positions. I like that Rolo takes a “forward looking” approach to selecting his personnel. This last spring the players looked bigger and stronger than the year before, so they definitely passed the eye test.
The coaches seem to be on the same page and work well together, unlike years past. It shows in the players.
We’ll know a lot more after the first few games, but I like the overall trajectory of the program the past few years. Can’t wait for the season to start.
GO COACHES!!!
GO WARRIORS!!!
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