Bio

Chris Murphy is in his first season as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Tampa.

Murphy also serves as a sports performance coach with Core Performance Institute, where he has worked since 2015. He develops and implements programs for groups of athletes, and linear and multi-directional speed sessions, strength/power sessions, and regeneration sessions. His other duties include delivering one-to-one strength/power sessions and linear and multi-directional speed sessions and providing corrective exercise protocols using functional movement screening client athletes.

He has also worked as a strength and conditioning intern at the University of South Florida. In this position, he assisted with football and Olympic sports under director of strength and conditioning Pat Moorer. He has also worked as a performance specialist under EXOS, working with the NFL Players Association's "Breakfast Club." He was part of an integrated team working along side two manual therapists and a dietitian to help enhance retired NFL players lives. His primary responsibilities were screening, developing, and implementing strength and conditioning programs for groups of retired NFL players.

As an undergrad at Tampa, he was a volunteer strength and conditioning coach. He was the lead strength and conditioning coach for women’s golf for three semesters and programmed and implemented offseason weight room and movement skills sessions for women’s soccer using a triphasic training model. He also assisted in developing and implementing strength/power programs for the men’s basketball team, used Tendo units for velocity based training protocols and Wingate bikes for anaerobic power testing.

He received his health sciences and human performance degree from the University of Tampa in 2016. He is currently working towards a masters in exercise and nutrition services at UT.