Lance Sewell - Baseball Coach - West Virginia University Athletics

Lance Sewell

Title:
Strength Coach
Email:
Lance.Sewell@mail.wvu.edu
Phone:
(304) 293-2821

Lance Sewell enters his first season with the Mountaineers after joining the staff at WVU in the summer of 2017. He works with the baseball and golf programs.

Sewell comes to Morgantown from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he served as a strength and conditioning coach at Tennessee. In that capacity, he was responsible for designing and implementing injury prevention, speed, strength, power and conditioning programs for the baseball and men’s and women’s tennis programs.

Prior to that, Sewell spent 11 years at Texas, where he served as the head strength and conditioning coach for the Longhorns’ baseball (2004-15) and softball programs (2012-15). In addition, he worked with the football team from 2004-09. Sewell spent three years (2008-11) as the head strength and conditioning coach for the women’s golf team and also served one season with the women’s track and field team.

From 2001-04, Sewell was at Miami in Miami, Florida. He served as the head strength and conditioning coach for the baseball, men’s and women’s cross country and swim teams.

Sewell was the director of conditioning for the Cincinnati Reds from 1997-2001 after spending a season with the minor league teams from 1997-98. He spent the 1995 season as an intern in the Chicago White Sox minor league team, the Prince William Cannons. Sewell also served as the personal strength and conditioning coach for Todd Helton of the Colorado Rockies and Olympic softball player Cat Osterman.

As a graduate assistant at Tennessee from 1995-96, Sewell worked directly with then-quarterback Peyton Manning. He designed baseball-specific programs and assisted with the basketball team. Sewell earned his master’s of science in sports administration from Tennessee as well as a bachelor’s of science in health and fitness from Baylor.