Mark Wateska joined the Indiana Department of Athletics from Stanford University in April 2002 and is in his ninth year with the IU football program. He was promoted to assistant athletic director for strength and conditioning on April 15, 2009. Wateska has nearly 25 years of experience in intercollegiate athletics as both a player and strength coach. He is not new to the Big Ten as he played football at Penn State University. Wateska participated in three bowl games, two of which were for the national championship (1985 Orange, 1986 Fiesta). As a coach, he has been involved in seven additional bowls, including the 2007 Insight Bowl. He joined the staff at Stanford in 1995, where he spent seven years as the school's head strength and conditioning coach. That same year he was named the 1995-96 Pac-10 Strength and Conditioning Professional of the Year by the National Strength and Conditioning Association. At Stanford, he was directly responsible for the Cardinal football program and oversaw the development and implementation of the strength and conditioning programs for all of Stanford's 33 varsity sports. He began his career as a graduate assistant at Penn State, where he received his master's degree in exercise and sports science. The next stop for Wateska was at Boston College, where he spent four years as the assistant strength and conditioning coach. He moved north to the University of Maine and became the school's first head strength and conditioning coach. Wateska was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mark and his wife, Kim, reside in Bloomington with their two daughters, Julia (10) and Cameron (6). |
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