Corey Parker

Biography

Assistant Athletics Director for Olympic Sport Strength and Conditioning Corey Parker is responsible for overseeing the development of more than 400 Olympic Sport student-athletes who represent the Orange. In addition to his supervisory role, Parker handles the strength and conditioning programs for men's soccer and rowing, field hockey, ice hockey, soccer, and volleyball. Parker came to Syracuse in 1995 as an assistant strength and conditioning coach. After serving in that post for five years, he was promoted to associate head strength and conditioning coach for varsity sports. In 2002, Parker left Syracuse Athletics to become director of strength and conditioning at Strength in Motion in Syracuse. While there, he designed and implemented individualized programs for clients ranging from grade-school age to college athletes. He returned to Syracuse University Athletics in 2012 as an assistant strength and conditioning coach and was promoted to his current role in August 2016. A native of Haverhill, Mass., Parker began his career in health and fitness working in corporate fitness as an exercise physiologist for Fit-Corp in Boston prior to coming to Syracuse in 1995. Parker earned first-team football All-Eastern Coast Athletic Conference honors and was a three-year starter for Maine. He was selected as the Black Bears Defensive Lineman of the Year in 1991 and 1992. After earning his bachelor's degree in health and fitness from Maine in 1992, he went on to earn his master's degr