If you are currently a college student looking for a career in strength and conditioning training, Sanford Sports Performance offers an invaluable opportunity to help you get started. Our team will mentor and help develop knowledge and skills to prepare interns for a career in the profession.
Our semester-long, paid internships are learning experiences that will put you ahead of the game. They last 12 to 14 weeks and coincide with university and college class semesters. Start and end dates for each session may vary slightly by location.
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Prepare to be part of a fast-paced environment charged with positive energy. You’ll experience hands-on learning with athletes ranging from middle school up to the collegiate and professional levels. As an intern, you will assist the strength coaches with program design and instruction for individual, group and team performance training sessions. Not only will you help to improve the athletes' physical performance, but also their self-esteem and confidence.
Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, teaching and coaching various aspects of performance programming. This entails dynamic warm-up routines, flexibility and mobility exercises, acceleration, speed, agility, plyometric drills, strength training and conditioning exercises. You will be asked to set up, break down and clean equipment, record data and, most importantly, build relationships with staff, athletes and clients.
Our culture is based on development and growth. Under the supervision of Sanford Sports Performance coaches, some of our most successful interns are now programmers and coaches of their own groups of athletes. Our curriculum will guide you throughout the internship, including bi-weekly staff meetings (except in the summer) and educational sessions. Sanford Sports Performance continues to grow its services and programming to best prepare our interns for future job opportunities with our team or elsewhere.
For additional questions or information, contact email
Bismarck: dalton.weisz@sanfordhealth.org
Fargo: randy.martin@sanfordhealth.org
Grand Forks: anthony.morando@sanfordhealth.org
Sioux Falls: kaitlyn.soukup@sanfordhealth.org