Conor Cantwell, MS, CSCS,*D, RSCC

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Conor Cantwell is the Associate Director of Sport Performance at William & Mary, where he oversees strength and conditioning for women's basketball, volleyball, and men's and women's tennis while leading sport science initiatives within the Sports Performance Department. With experience spanning professional baseball, professional rugby, and NCAA Division I and III athletics. Prior to joining William & Mary, Cantwell served as a strength and conditioning coach at the University of WisconsinPlatteville, where he directed performance programs for women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, and the track & field throws group. Before that, he spent the 2023 season with the Cincinnati Reds organization as the Performance Coach for the Single-A Daytona Tortugas. A native of Kilkenny, Ireland, Cantwell earned his bachelor's degree in Sport and Exercise Sciences from the University of Limerick. During his undergraduate studies, he gained valuable applied experience with Munster Rugby and served as Head of Athletic Performance for Garryowen RFC. He also completed a performance internship at East Tennessee State University, supporting Division I baseball and athletes training at a U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Site. Cantwell earned his master's degree in Sport Physiology and Performance Coaching from Carroll University, where he served as a graduate assistant at the Carroll University Sports Performance Institute. His role combined applied coaching with research, allowing him to contribute to strength and conditioning programming while leading and assisting with sport science projects. His research focused on accentuated eccentric loading. As a strength and conditioning coach, he worked with the men's and women's soccer programs during the 202122 and 202223 seasons. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with Distinction (CSCS*D) and a Registered Strength and Conditioning Coach (RSCC) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. He also holds a USA Weightlifting Level 1 Coach certification. Cantwell is currently pursuing a PhD through Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin), where his research aims to investigates heart rate monitoring in collegiate women's basketball, with a particular focus on the application of submaximal fitness testing for athlete monitoring and performance optimization.