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College athletics has evolved to the point where total physical preparation is necessary to be successful at the Division I level. Under the guidance of the strength and conditioning coach Ryan Atchison with the assistance of assistant strength and conditioning coaches Stacy Hummer and Matt Parvis and graduate assistant Richard Buford, they oversee the strength and conditioning training for the 49ers 16 sports.
Atchison is in his second year as head strength and conditioning coach. He is a 1996 graduate of Sul Ross State University, where he earned a degree in Business Administration. He earned a Master's Degree in Physical Education from Hardin-Simmons University in 2001. He served as assistant strength and conditioning coach with the NBA's Houston Rockets for two and half years before coming to Charlotte. Prior to that, he spent four years as assistant strength and conditioning coach at Rice University. He also spent one year as assistant strength and conditioning coach at Louisiana Tech University.
He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist by the CSCS as well as a certified strength and conditioning coach by SCCC. He is also USAW certified. The 49ers strength and conditioning program makes use of the weight training facility in the Miltimore-Wallis Athletics and Academic Training Center. The Athletics and Academic Training Center includes a 5,400-square-foot weight room. It is equipped with a variety of free weight and systematic training equipment. The weight training facility is exclusively used by the 49ers athletic department and its student-athletes. The unlimited access allows the strength and conditioning staff the flexibility in scheduling time in the facility assuring that the student-athletes are able to maximize their athletic development.
Hummer returned to the 49ers in the spring of 2008, after a previous six-year stint with Charlotte 49ers Athletics. She was a four-year letterwinner for the Charlotte 49ers women's soccer program (95-98). She was a two-time team captain and earned All-Conference USA honors twice. She was a major part of two Conference USA Tournament championships. As a senior, she helped lead Charlotte to their first ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament in 1998. She also spent seven years in the W-League where she won a national championship with the Charlotte Eagles.
She is a certified strength and conditioning specialist by the NSCA, graduated from Charlotte in 1999 with a degree in Health Fitness and Kinesiology. In 2001, she received a Master's Degree in Health Promotion and Exercise Physiology from Charlotte.
Parvis is in his second year as assistant strength and conditioning coach at Charlotte. He designs and implements all aspects of year round strength and conditioning programs for the women's basketball, baseball, and men's soccer programs. Before his appointment at Charlotte, he was a minor league strength and conditioning coach with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization working with the Bradenton Pirates. He was also a student assistant for two years at West Virginia University primarily working with football, baseball, women's gymnastics, and men's basketball.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in Sport Psychology in 2003 and a Master of Science in Athletic Coaching with an emphasis in Strength and Conditioning in 2007, both from West Virginia University. He is a certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Buford is in his first season at Charlotte. Buford was a four year letter winner and graduate at Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, MI. He competed in Football and Track & Field where he earned GLIAC Conference Championships in both sports and several individual GLIAC Conference Championship titles. Upon earning his Bachelor's of Business Administration in Management, he started a Speed, Agility and Quickness training program along with an AAU/USATF Track & Field team. Buford has worked with athletes from Football, Basketball, Track & Field, Softball, Tennis and Volleyball through this business. He will be working directly with the Men's and Women's Tennis and Baseball teams.
Buford is a member of the NSCA and also working towards his CSCS certification.
