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The University of Utah Athletics
Sports Performance Staff: Emma Ostermann
Assistant Director of Sports Performance, Olympic Sports
Emma Ostermann is the Assistant Director of Sports Performance, Olympic Sports with the University of Utah working primarily with women’s basketball and the alpine and Nordic ski teams.
Prior to Utah, Ostermann was the strength and conditioning coach for men’s and women's basketball and women's soccer at Northern Arizona. Her duties included designing all aspects of training for her assigned sports along with presenting on topics in her field at coaches' summits. While at Northern Arizona, all three teams she worked with saw their injury rate decline. Under her training and supervision, the men and women's basketball players broke four-team strength and conditioning records in 2016-17 (vertical jump, bench press, clean, back squat). Prior to her time at Northern Arizona, Ostermann served as a high-performance sport science trainee with the U.S. Skiing and Snowboard Association and was a strength and conditioning intern with the U.S. Army, working primarily with the 10th Special Forces Group. She received her master's in sports medicine with an emphasis in strength and conditioning from Colorado in 2015, and completed her undergraduate work in kinesiology at Kansas State University. Ostermann played basketball at Kansas State from 2010-12, earning Big 12 All-Academic selections in 2011 and 2012. Prior to her playing days with the Wildcats, Ostermann was a team captain on the women’s basketball team at Cloud County.
Ostermann is a certified strength and conditioning specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and has her USAW-L1SP through USA Weightlifting.
Get to know Coach Ostermann
Home Town: Abilene, KS
Favorite Book: "Outliers" Malcolm Gladwell
Favorite Food: Pizza
Favorite Song or Movie: Little Bitty - Alan Jackson
Greatest Adventure: Anything mountain biking or ski related
Prior to Utah, Ostermann was the strength and conditioning coach for men’s and women's basketball and women's soccer at Northern Arizona. Her duties included designing all aspects of training for her assigned sports along with presenting on topics in her field at coaches' summits. While at Northern Arizona, all three teams she worked with saw their injury rate decline. Under her training and supervision, the men and women's basketball players broke four-team strength and conditioning records in 2016-17 (vertical jump, bench press, clean, back squat). Prior to her time at Northern Arizona, Ostermann served as a high-performance sport science trainee with the U.S. Skiing and Snowboard Association and was a strength and conditioning intern with the U.S. Army, working primarily with the 10th Special Forces Group. She received her master's in sports medicine with an emphasis in strength and conditioning from Colorado in 2015, and completed her undergraduate work in kinesiology at Kansas State University. Ostermann played basketball at Kansas State from 2010-12, earning Big 12 All-Academic selections in 2011 and 2012. Prior to her playing days with the Wildcats, Ostermann was a team captain on the women’s basketball team at Cloud County.
Ostermann is a certified strength and conditioning specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and has her USAW-L1SP through USA Weightlifting.
Get to know Coach Ostermann
Home Town: Abilene, KS
Favorite Book: "Outliers" Malcolm Gladwell
Favorite Food: Pizza
Favorite Song or Movie: Little Bitty - Alan Jackson
Greatest Adventure: Anything mountain biking or ski related