Wake Forest Athletics News
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Ellis Named ACC Strength Coach Of The Year
Jan. 10, 2000 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest Head Strength & Conditioning Coordinator Ed Ellis was selected as the ACC Strength Coach of the Year, it was announced this weekend at the National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA) conference. Ellis earned the award by vote of the conference's strength coaches. The conference honor puts him in the running for the National Strength Coach of the Year award, which will be determined later this spring. Ellis is in his sixth season at Wake Forest, which enjoyed one of its most successful seasons this past fall. Five different fall sports attained NCAA Tournament berths, while the football team - with whom Ellis works most closely - earned its first bowl bid since 1992 and won the Aloha Bowl. Ellis is a 1987 graduate of Alabama, where he was an All-SEC performer in the discus and shot put, and he earned his master's degree at Arkansas. He holds numerous world and national drug-free powerlifting records and is the current world recordholder in the benchpress with a lift of 620 pounds.
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