Lance Barilow

Biography

Lance Barilow enters his fourth season as a charter member of Joey McGuire’s staff as Texas Tech’s head strength and conditioning coach. Barilow oversees all in-season and offseason strength programing, one of the key components of Texas Tech’s success the past three seasons as the Red Raiders have played in a bowl game each year and combined for its most success in Big 12 play in over a decade. Texas Tech has combined for 16 total Big 12 wins during Barilow’s tenure as the Red Raiders are one of only two Big 12 programs to boast a winning conference record each of the past three seasons, regardless of league affiliation. Barilow arrived in Lubbock following one season at Baylor where he served as the senior associate director of athletics performance with the football program. He concluded his tenure at Baylor with the Bears’ victory in the Big 12 Championship game against Oklahoma State. Barilow has worked in the Big 12 Conference each of the past five seasons as he moved to Baylor after spending the 2020 season as the associate director of strength and conditioning at Kansas. Prior to Kansas, Barilow was on staff at LSU from 2016-19, rising from an intern to eventually being named the associate director of strength and conditioning for football in 2018. Barilow, who also worked with beach volleyball and soccer during his tenure in Baton Rouge, was part of LSU’s historic 15-0 season in 2019 that was highlighted with the Tigers topping Clemson in the College Football Playoff