Greg Case, head strength and conditioning coach, defensive coordinator, and linebackers coach at Bishop Kenny High School, opened the doors to his program’s new performance facility this year, and the thinking behind it goes well beyond square footage.
Case built the space around flow. Ten Sorinex racks run in a single line, giving coaches clear sight lines across the room and letting athletes move efficiently between rack work and turf work during the contrast training pairings that define his programming. Every rack is set up identically, from dumbbells and adjustable benches to pull up grips and triphasic hooks, so athletes always know where to find what they need and coaches never lose a set of eyes on the room. The back wall carries the same logic, with dumbbell racks bookending a slam wall, iron necks for concussion prevention work, and Franken hypers for posterior chain training, mirrored on both sides of the room.
The technology layer is where the conversation goes deep. Case walks through how his staff uses Rock Daisy to program and collect data in real time as athletes train, Gym Aware for velocity based training on barbell work, Dasher lasers for speed and agility, and Titan sensors that carry over from the weight room onto the field. He spends real time on how he actually reads the Titan dashboard day to day, starting with player load and the acute to chronic workload timeline he calls the single most important metric he tracks. From there he breaks down how he sets targets for sprint distance, acceleration, and deceleration by reverse engineering what athletes are already doing in games, then builds the week backward from those numbers.
Case also draws a clear line between how he trains incoming freshmen with no prior weight room experience and the veteran athletes who have been in the system for three or four years and are using this technology daily to chase college opportunities. It is a look at what a modern high school performance program can look like when design and data work together from the ground up.
