Ron McKeefery - Football Coach - University of Washington Athletics

Ohio State

Sep 27 (Sat)

12:30 p.m. PT

Ron McKeefery

Title:
Head Strength & Conditioning Coach
Email:
coachmac@uw.edu

Ron McKeefery joined head coach Kalen DeBoer's 2022 UW staff as the football program's head strength & conditioning coach, moving from Fresno State along with DeBoer. He was hired as the Bulldogs' assistant athletic director for sports performance prior to the 2020-21 school year.

In 2023, McKeefery returns for his second season with the Huskies.

"Coach Mac is among the best in business when it comes to strength and conditioning, and player development," DeBoer said. "He is an outside-the-box thinker who excels in balancing foundational principles with new, cutting-edge ideas. Ron's ability and relentless pursuit in building an elite 'team' culture is second to none, and I'm looking forward to seeing the immediate impact he'll have at UW, building our team physically and mentally."

A former all-conference defensive back at Ottawa (Kan.) University, McKeefery has found success at each stop during his career, which has included positions with the Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Cincinnati Bengals at the professional level; and at the collegiate level with South Florida, Tennessee and Eastern Michigan, where he first worked with DeBoer.

McKeefery has also worked with United States Special Forces, Team USA Football and the Chinese Olympic Committee, among others. Additionally, he has trained more than 100 players who have gone on to the NFL, and has mentored well over 100 individuals who have gone on to careers as collegiate or pro strength & conditioning coaches, including three who have won Major League Baseball or NBA championships, and two who have won national strength coach of the year for college football.

Internationally recognized as a leader in the area of sports development, McKeefery has twice been named Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year – first by the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Society (2008 Under Armour Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year), and also by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (2016 Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year). In 2020, Coach McKeefery was awarded the International Coach of the Year by S&C Education, based in the United Kingdom.