West Virginia University Athletics

RaQuan Horton joined the Mountaineer Football coaching staff in June as an assistant strength and conditioning coach.

He assists the strength and conditioning staff with the design and implementation of the strength and conditioning plans for the football student-athletes to help improve their strength, performance, conditioning and injury prevention.

He came to WVU after serving as a strength and conditioning coach with the Miami Dolphins in 2004, at Kentucky in 2023-24 and as a strength and conditioning intern at Georgia during the 2022-23 year.

While working at Kentucky and Georgia, he assisted with tracking the players’ velocity numbers, coaching daily runs, lifts and mobility programs, conducted workouts and created programs for injured players during practice and created sprint mechanic programs for players who were in return to play protocol.

He completed the requirements for Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) in 2023.

Prior to that, he was a coaching staff assistant with the football program at Eastern Kentucky and ran his own lineman development clinic for two years.

Horton, a native of Red Jacket, West Virginia, graduated with his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology pre-physical therapy from Eastern Kentucky in May 2022 and was the recipient of the SMART Scholarship and the Diversity Scholarship Awards. He was a defensive tackle on the Colonel football team for three years.