Gage Alexander Crosgrove
Buckeye,AZ
Summary
Highly skilled Strength and Conditioning Coordinator with experience in designing and implementing training programs for athletes and Coaches. Possess strong knowledge of human physiology, sports science, and fitness assessment techniques and how that translates to baseball. Demonstrated ability to enhance athletic performance while minimizing injury through targeted strength and conditioning strategies. Known for fostering a motivational environment that encourages athlete growth and development.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
MiLB Strength and Conditioning Coordinator
Chicago White Sox
Phoenix, Arizona
12.2021 - 10.2024
- As the Coordinator, I created our minor league foundational pillars that included movement templates, conditioning templates, Velocity Based Training Templates, return to play S&C templates both long and short term stints
- Worked on building collaboration with all departments to assist in the transition from the gym to the field
- Designed movement based pre throw and hitting templates that both skill coaches and strength and conditioning coaches can teach
- Assist our Director with Major League Camp, along with making various trips in-season to assist with our strength and conditioning initiatives.
- I oversee the nutritional budget and supplementation for each affiliate throughout the year.
- Coordinated educational seminars and classes for our staff to ensure we, as a group, improve our overall knowledge of our practice
- Ran performance camps during the off-season to ensure overall departmental and player growth.
- I oversee the return to play progressions from the strength and conditioning aspect of the progressions of players
- This includes any long term Major League roster players
- Developed our on-boarding process for new affiliated coaches and a full year on-boarding internship program for our strength and conditioning coaches
Strength and Conditioning Coach
Dessert Dogs
Glendale, Arizona
10.2021 - 11.2021
- Managed the strength and conditioning operations for the Glendale Desert Dogs, these duties include: Coordinating with other club leaders to ensure program design and prescription are being executed, run the conditioning, recovery modalities and day to day operations within the weight room and on-field work
- Monitored Forcedecks, Velocity Based Training Data for organizations that needed daily information
MiLB Strength and Conditioning Coach
Los Angeles Dodgers
Glendale, Arizona
04.2015 - 10.2021
- Throughout my current employment with the Dodgers, we have been guiding our athletes into a movement ownership program.
- In order to do this, we test our athletes with movement screens, strength tests, power tests, and a conditioning test
- Once given, we analyze the data and provide a program based on individual needs.
- During the season, we were in charge of workouts, nutrition, recovery, running mechanics, conditioning, tracking workload, and communicating with staff and other organizations about all things performance.
- We utilized our sports science initiatives, including Force-decks, gym-aware, Catapult, and data collection.
- During the off-season, I would assist in our training in Los Angeles, where our big league and top 30 prospects would be training up until spring training.
- This included any speed camps, movement based camps, strength camps and work capacity camps
Latin America Strength & Conditioning Coordinator
Los Angeles Dodgers
Glendale, Arizona
10.2017 - 10.2019
- As the Coordinator, my duties included leading education sessions for staff and players focused on anatomy, workouts, movement screens, recovery modalities, nutrition, and English to Spanish translation
- My job was to build our players from the ground up by establishing a proper routine that is done independently while following a guideline of nutritional values and workouts based around movement ownership
- Assisted in the collaboration of the scouting department and strength and conditioning with our international operations to ensure we got ahead of the players development right off the bat
Strength and Conditioning Intern
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
01.2015 - 03.2015
- As the S&C intern, my job was to make sure the facility was set up for each session
- From there we aided in strength training baseball, basketball, Track and Field, Rifling, and Soccer
- The main task was to absorb and learn from all of the sports and how they use their energy stems and movements differently
- In the last few months, I aided in creating program designs that were geared towards the needs of their specific sport
Performance Coach
Velocity Performance
Sioux City, Iowa
06.2011 - 12.2014
- During my time with Velocity Performance, I was in charge of all varsity sports at Briar Cliff University ex
- Golf, Basketball, Football, Volleyball
- Here we focused on building a foundation through mobility and stability transitioning into each phase of training throughout the year
- I built programs that included a Strength continuum progression, movement flows, active recovery sessions, running mechanics, and conditioning protocols both in and out of season
- We integrated all of this at Sioux City East where I was the assistant
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Exercise Science
Wayne State College
Wayne, Nebraska12.2014
Skills
- Staff and player mentorship
- Individualized Coaching
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Public Speaking
- Fluet in Spanish
- Excellent Communication
- Budget Management
Certification
- Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist: Registered Strength and Conditioning Coach -CSCS ID Number: 000772091
- CPR/AED
- FRC
- OnBaseU Level 1
- SOMA-ELDOA Level 1 & 2
- DNS
- Precision Nutrition Level 1
- Velocity Based Training Certification (GymAware)
References
- Goldy Simmons, Chicago White Sox, Director Of Strength And Conditioning, (619) 206-8388, gsimmions@chisox.com
- Travis Smith, Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB Strength And Conditioning Coach, (773) 817-2527, tsmith@ladodgers.com
- Josh Barfield Chicago White Sox, Assistant General Manager (713) 992-1953 Jbarfield@chisox.com
- Paul Janish Chicago White Sox Farm Director (281) 898-8345
- Brian Stoneberg Los Angeles Dodgers, MiLB Director of Strength and Conditioning Bstoneberg@ladodgers.com
Timeline
MiLB Strength and Conditioning Coordinator
Chicago White Sox
12.2021 - 10.2024
Strength and Conditioning Coach
Dessert Dogs
10.2021 - 11.2021
Latin America Strength & Conditioning Coordinator
Los Angeles Dodgers
10.2017 - 10.2019
MiLB Strength and Conditioning Coach
Los Angeles Dodgers
04.2015 - 10.2021
Strength and Conditioning Intern
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
01.2015 - 03.2015
Performance Coach
Velocity Performance
06.2011 - 12.2014
- Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist: Registered Strength and Conditioning Coach -CSCS ID Number: 000772091
- CPR/AED
- FRC
- OnBaseU Level 1
- SOMA-ELDOA Level 1 & 2
- DNS
- Precision Nutrition Level 1
- Velocity Based Training Certification (GymAware)
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Exercise Science
Wayne State College
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