☕️ S&C Daily — Gainey Builds His Wolfpack

Good morning. NC State adds Cody Dukquits as head strength coach, Plyomat opens a new chapter with a major investment, and Longwood lands a former Liberty standout. Let's get into it.

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🐺 NC State Hires Cody Dukquits as Head Strength Coach

NC State has hired Cody Dukquits as the men's basketball program's new head strength and conditioning coach under first-year head coach Justin Gainey.

Dukquits comes from South Florida, where he spent the past three seasons in the same role under both Amir Abdur-Rahim and Bryan Hodgson. He previously held the head strength job at Stephen F. Austin for five seasons and started his full-time career at Georgia Southern. Read More

📣 A New Chapter for Plyomat After Five Years

Plyomat founder and Triple F Elite Director of Athletic Development Richard Burnett shared that Andrew and Ashleigh Walters are investing in Plyomat, a partnership that started not in a boardroom but at a Knoxville training facility where the Walters watched their own kids train with the platform. The conviction that became Plyomat started back in 2014 at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, where Burnett's early obsession with reactive strength led him to build a better way to measure it in real training environments.

The investment is fueling Plyomat 3.0, a full rebuild around the hardware coaches already own, shipping May 31 and free for every coach who owns a Plyomat. "The mission has not changed," Burnett wrote. "What is changing is our capacity to pursue it." See More

🏀 Longwood Hires Former Liberty Standout Elijah Cuffee

Longwood announced the hiring of Elijah Cuffee as Director of Sports Performance, where he'll oversee men's basketball and men's and women's golf. Cuffee comes from UNCW, where he spent two years as Assistant Director of Sports Performance working with men's basketball, beach volleyball, women's soccer, and men's tennis. Before getting into the strength side, he played four years at Liberty and finished his career in 2021 as the program's all-time wins leader. Read More

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