Staff bios

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STAFF

LEE TAYLOR

assoc. STRENGTH & CONDITIONING COACH

THIRD Year AT TENNESSEE MISSOURI VALLEY ‘08 Lee Taylor is in his first season as the strength and conditioning coach for the Lady Vol basketball program and is in his third year of working with the University of Tennessee. Taylor was hired on Aug. 5, 2013, as associate strength and conditioning coach and is in charge of helping Holly Warlick’s women’s hoops team and Judy Pavon’s Lady Vol golf squad get stronger and fit for competition. Taylor possesses a B.A. in exercise science and athletic training that he earned in 2008 from Missouri Valley College and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (C.S.C.S.) and a United States Weightlifting Sports Performance Coach (USAW). As a performance coach for Performance Training Incorporated from 2008-09 and from January 2013 to present, Taylor designed strength and conditioning protocols for basketball, baseball, football, rugby, swimming, tennis and wrestling athletes. He also worked as a speed, agility and quickness (SAQ) trainer for athletes of all ages and taught basketball-specific techniques at the UT Elite Basketball Camp.

He also has a highly-respected reputation from his prior experience under multiple head coaches with the UT strength and conditioning department. Taylor came to Knoxville in July of 2008 and served until December of 2008 as an intern at UT. He went back to his alma mater to as director of strength and conditioning from August 2009 to August 2010 before returning to UT. He served another internship from August 2010 to December 2010 and was hired as assistant strength and conditioning coach in Jan. 2011. Following a stint as director of strength and conditioning at the University of Incarnate Word (April 2011-Jan. 2012), Taylor moved on to Eastern Illinois as interim director (Feb. 2012-May 2012), where his duties included working with the men’s and women’s basketball teams on their in-season strength programs. Taylor returned to Knoxville in July 2012 as assistant strength and conditioning coach, where he served until Jan. 3, 2013. He assisted with the design and implementation of the in-season and off-season programs for football and aided with winter workouts for the baseball, track & field, rowing and dance teams.

ASHLEY BONCK WILSON assoc. DIRECTOR OF SPORTS MEDICINE

FIRST Year AT TENNESSEE LSU ‘06 Ashley Bonck Wilson, MHP, ATC, is in her first season as associate director of sports medicine at Tennessee. She is responsible for providing care for the Lady Vol basketball team. Bonck Wilson joined the UT staff from Ole Miss, where she had served as the athletic trainer for the women’s hoops team since May 2011. Before arriving in Oxford, Bonck Wilson spent three seasons (2008-2011) at Lamar University, where she also worked with the women’s basketball program. Prior to joining the staff at Lamar, Bonck Wilson spent two years at the University of Oklahoma as a graduate assistant working with the Sooners’ nationally-ranked women’s volleyball team. She was awarded her master’s degree in human relations from OU in May 2008.

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From 2002 to 2006, Bonck Wilson served as an athletic training student at LSU. She worked with the football, women’s basketball and women’s tennis programs during her four years. Bonck Wilson also worked on the athletic training staff for the 2004 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament First and Second Rounds, hosted by LSU. Bonck Wilson received a Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology with a concentration in athletic training from LSU in May 2006. A native of New Orleans, she is a board certified athletic trainer by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and has certification in CPR/AED and first aid. Bonck Wilson married Dwight Wilson in June of 2009. They have a son, Cannon, and three dogs - Beaux, Colston and Hartley.

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