Sowders tabbed to lead Hogs’ Strength & Conditioning

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Head Coach Sam Pittman has named Ben Sowders because the Razorbacks’ new Director of Power & Conditioning.

Sowders involves Arkansas after spending the 2022 season at Louisville because the Director of Power & Conditioning for the Cardinals. This previous season the Cardinals went 7-5 and earned a spot within the Fenway Bowl.

Sowders labored with Pittman at Georgia in the course of the 2018-19 seasons – Sowders’ first of 4 seasons with the Bulldogs. Because the Asistant Director of Power & Conditioning, he labored with 20 student-athletes that went onto play within the NFL whereas additionally serving to the Dawgs to the 2022 Nationwide Championship and three journeys to the SEC Championship Recreation.

Previous to his time at Georgia, the Bowling Inexperienced, Ky. Native spent one season at McNeese State because the Director of Power & Conditioning. The Cowboys posted a 9-2 report in his lone season in Lake Charles, La. Sowders spent two seasons at Georgia Tech (2015-16) after two seasons at Gardner-Webb, the place he was answerable for the coaching of the Bulldogs’ 21 Division I packages.

His first full-time collegiate place was at Southern Miss, the place he led the power and conditioning efforts for the Golden Eagles’ males’s and ladies’s basketball, volleyball and softball packages whereas aiding with soccer. Previous to his time in Hattiesburg, Miss., He fulfilled a six-month internship at Alabama, the place he labored with the Crimson Tide’s soccer, volleyball, tennis and rowing groups.

Sowders earned his begin in power and conditioning as a Facility Coordinator and Head Power & Pace coach at D1 Sports activities Coaching in Nashville, Tenn. Whereas at D1 Sports activities, he labored with quite a few NFL gamers, together with Steve Smith, Jerome Bettis, Donovan McNabb and Kyle Vanden Bosch.

He earned his bachelor’s diploma in train science from Western Kentucky in December 2008 after enjoying for the Hilltoppers as a linebacker. Sowders started his profession as a walk-on earlier than incomes a scholarship and changing into a two-year starter. As a senior in 2008, he recorded 47 tackles with 2.5 tackles for loss for the Hilltoppers and added 29 tackles and three.0 tackles for loss as a junior in 2007.

He obtained his grasp’s diploma in recreation and sport administration in August of 2010 from WKU. He’s a member of the Collegiate Power and Conditioning Coaches Affiliation (CSCCa), a Licensed Power and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and licensed by USA Weightlifting.

Sowders is married to the previous Shelbee Rodgers.