NSCA's Midwest Region

Midwest Region

Regional Coordinator: Ryan Keller, MS, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT,*D
Contact: rkeller@rec.tamu.edu

Ryan Keller is the Strength and Conditioning Director for Recreational Sports at Texas A&M University. Keller oversees multiple strength and conditioning facilities on campus, along with a large personal and small-group training program. He teaches courses including advanced strength and conditioning, and exercise assessment and prescription. Keller works with a wide variety of athletes (including cheer and dance teams) and personal training clients.

Arkansas 

State Director: Vacant
Contact: spd@nsca.com to learn about becoming a State/Provincial Director.

Kansas 

State Director: Gerald Larson, PhD, CSCS 
Contact: gerald.larson@avila.edu

Gerald Larson is an Associate Professor and Program Director of Kinesiology at Avila University in Kansas City, MO. He teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in the areas of exercise and stress physiology, biomechanics and motor control, measurement and evaluation, and evidence-based nutrition and recovery. A lifelong scholar-practitioner, his personal and professional interests are related to functional psychophysical training with an emphasis on tactical strength and conditioning.

Louisiana

State Director: Tim Kettenring, CSCS 
Contact: timkettenring@gmail.com

Bio to come soon!

Missouri

State Director: Victor Kizer, MS, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT,*D, TSAC-F,*D
Contact: victorkizer@gmail.com

Victor Kizer is an Assistant Professor and the Program Director for the Exercise Science Department at Maryville University in St. Louis, MO. He is currently in the dissertation phase of his Doctorate of Science in Health Sciences from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions in Provo, UT. He is also a Captain in the Army Reserve (careerist, 20 years in March 2020), previously serving as a Master Fitness Trainer Instructor at Fort Knox. Kizer previously co-owned a private training facility in St. Louis before moving full time into academia. 

Oklahoma 

State Director: Taylor Dinyer-McNeely, PhD, CSCS
Contact: taylor.dinyer@okstate.edu

Taylor Dinyer-McNeely is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology, Applied Health and Recreation at Oklahoma State University. She teaches courses in the areas of sport and coaching sciences and strength and conditioning. Her research interests include the examination of fatigue thresholds and the underlying physiological responses as they apply to resistance exercise.

Texas 

State Director: Drew Gonzalez, MS, CSCS,*D, TSAC-F,*D
Contact: dg18@tamu.edu

Bio to come soon!