Both the University at Buffalo guys and girls’ tennis groups have been picked to repeat as Mid-American Conference match champions in a preseason coaches’ ballot announced Wednesday.
The Bulls, who went undefeated in conference men’s play last season, returns the maximum of that crew. Although they were picked as MAC event champions, they had been 2d to 2d inside the league ordinary season in the back of Western Michigan.
Among the returns is the first crew All-MAC choice Hao Sheng Koah, a native of Malaysia. Also lower back is junior Ethan Nittolo, the MAC match MVP.
The UB women had been picked as co-favorites with Miami (Ohio) to win the conference event. UB edged Miami in the balloting as the favorite to win the everyday season. Among the returnees from the final season for teaching Kristen Maines is first crew All-MAC player Tanja Stojanovska, a senior from Macedonia.
The UB men will start their spring agenda subsequent Wednesday towards Wichita State at Cornell University in Ithaca. The women will open in opposition to St. Bonaventure on Feb. 2 at the Miller Tennis Center in Williamsville.
Today you’re in for a special treat. I’ve been fortunate to connect with Ryan Van Asten from Hockey Canada. Ryan is the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the National girls’ hockey team and the conditioning coordinator for the National Luge crew. Needless to say, 2010 has been a thrilling and busy time for Ryan. Read on as Ryan shares with us a bit approximately his heritage to deliver him to wherein he is, his training philosophies, with a unique emphasis on hockey, what running for the National Team has been like as well as his dream team of practitioners and the first-rate resources he has found to allow him to have had fulfillment together with his athletes. So take a seat returned and experience a one on one with Ryan Van Asten.
Background
Chris Collins – Where did you go to school? What made you want to do this for a living? What turned into your sports history? Who has been some of your mentors alongside the manner? What are a number of the thrilling places you have labored?
Ryan Van Asten – Master of Science (Exercise and Health Physiology) – University of Calgary
– Bachelor of Science (Honours) (Subject of Specialization – Life Sciences) – Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario
– Bachelor of Physical and Health Education – Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
– Certifications: CSCS (NSCA), Certified Exercise Physiologist (CSEP), NCCP Level 1 Olympic Weightlifting, FMS Certified
My sports activities heritage changed into various as an infant (i.E. Hockey, football, lacrosse, baseball, alpine snowboarding, water skiing, wakeboarding, and many others.) however specialized in Hockey and Lacrosse as a teen. Eventually, simply focussing on hockey, I performed Provincial Jr. An in Ontario, four years collegiate (Queen’s University), 1 yr semi-professional in Germany – retiring at age 24 to peruse my graduate diploma in Calgary. As an end result of my sports background, dry-land training changed into always a part of my lifestyle, and I cherished every second of the training. While at Queen’s University, I become lucky sufficient to work with and play hockey with Anthony Slater (now a primary part of an organization called Athletes’ Performance inside the United States). Anthony (although young himself on time) put me on a schooling software one summertime, and the consequences have been incredible. For the primary time in my existence, I became on a periodized application centered around bench press. After that, I turned hooked and could not get ahold of enough records on schooling – I turned into digesting the stuff adore it changed into my activity…One problem: it wasn’t. At the time, I was simply finishing up my Bachelor of Science diploma and wasn’t sure which route to go…This had all been modified via that factor. I needed to paintings in sports overall performance. So the subsequent year, I enrolled in the Bachelor of Physical and Health Education application at Queen’s to bring me in the direction of my dreams. It became in ‘Phys Ed’ wherein I met David Frost (a Mechanical engineer who additionally had an ardor for schooling and biomechanics). Dave becomes a massive guy who loved to educate and knew a hell of plenty greater about pretty much everything than I did – so I spent time with his loads and on account that we had been the vintage guys in a class complete of 18 19-year-olds, we clicked right away. Training with Dave added my power to a fair more degree. However, it turned into now not always do to the physiological components anymore – Dave becomes professional at breaking down and assessing biomechanics. He tweaked quite a lot the entirety I did, and my power went via the roof. This is after I realized that it is not approximately the exercising or the exercising selection; it is approximately the coaching and the implementation of the exercising in the precise manner that is the crucial factor. Evidently, these days Dave is carrying out his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo, in which he is mentored by Stuart McGill (now famous in the realm of energy and conditioning).
My first mentors (and remain to these days) in strength and conditioning were Anthony Slater and David Frost. I then moved to Calgary and began my graduate research – running under Dr. David Smith and Dr. Stephen Norris (two of the maximum prominent exercising and sports physiologists within the international), my expertise increased even further. I changed into also fortunate sufficient to get publicity to fantastic Strength and Conditioning coaches at the Canadian Sport Centre – Calgary (I am one of them now…Ha)(Matt Jordan, Scott Maw, Mac Read, and Matt Price) – These are guys who have education numerous Olympic and World champions in each summer and iciness sports activities. I even have discovered plenty from every one of them and keep researching from them on an everyday foundation.
At the tail end of my Master’s diploma, I was searching out approaches to hone my training skills to bring me to the following degree – then I bumped into Mark Verstegen and Kevin Elsey (both from Athletes’ Performance – although I knew Kevin from Queen’s University) at an Adidas Conference on the University of Calgary. I asked them approximately the possibility of an internship, and that was given the ball rolling. At 27 years of age, I dropped the entirety to transport down to Pensacola, Florida, to do an unpaid internship at Athletes’ Performance for four months. This selection became out to be the fine element I even have carried out in my profession. At AP, I learned how to train, and I found out about physical movement. Up to this point, I prided myself on being a professional within the weight room – however, it placed me in an area or tune, and I changed into lost in phrases of training and drill progression. I had to be on my recreation at AP, regularly working with NFL pro-bowlers and different expert athletes and looking at many excellent coaches within the kingdom paintings. I surely discovered the value of looking at different humans and looking at things from several special angles.
