Football
Reese, Darius
vs
BYU
Sep 27 (Sat)
8:15 PM
Darius Reese
- Title:
- Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach
- Email:
- darius.reese@colorado.edu
- Phone:
- 303-735-8182
Darius Reese is in his second year as an assistant strength and conditioning coach, joining the department on February 10, 2021. He works primarily with Colorado’s football program. He has been reunited with CU’s director of football sports performance, Shannon Turley, as he worked under him for four years at Stanford.
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Reese, 32, came to CU from Stanford University, where he spent six seasons in the football sports performance area with the Cardinal, the last two years (2019, 2020) as the assistant director. He ascended through the ranks, beginning as an intern in 2015, then working as a graduate assistant and then as a full-time assistant coach.
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As a full-time coach, he was an associate football sports performance coach for football, in addition to designing and implementing training programs for wrestling and men’s gymnastics.  As a graduate assistant, Reese oversaw the annual program for men’s gymnastics and the women’s lightweight rowing team, the latter of whom were national champions in 2015-16. As an intern, he worked with several sports, assisting the training programs for baseball, softball, men’s and women’s water polo, women’s rowing and women’s gymnastics.Â
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At Stanford, he coached several top players, including two runner-ups for the Heisman Trophy, Christian McCaffrey and Bryce Love, John Mackey Award finalist, Kaden Smith, and two other first round NFL draft picks in addition to McCaffrey, Joshua Garnett and Solomon Thomas. The Cardinal went to four bowl games during his time on their staff, the 2016 Rose, 2016 Sun, 2017 Alamo and 2018 Sun.
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Reese was also an intern for strength and conditioning at Portland State University, where he assisted with all aspects of the strength, speed, and agility for football and women’s tennis programs. He also served as a volunteer strength and conditioning intern at Bellarmine Preparatory (Calif.).
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He graduated from San Jose State with a bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology, with an emphasis in Exercise and Fitness in 2014, and was an honor roll member for five semesters.  He joined the Spartans as a walk-on cornerback under the late head coach Dick Tomey. In 2017, he earned his master’s degree in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Exercise Physiology, also from SJSU.
He was born June 22, 1990 in Duarte, Calif., and graduated from Duarte High School, where he lettered in football, basketball and track and field (sprints and relays). His hobbies include exercising, hiking, gaming and being outdoors. He is engaged to Ruth Lorimer, and the couple is expecting their first child this July.  A high school teammate of his was Michael Harris, an offensive lineman at UCLA who went on to play with the San Diego Chargers and Minnesota Vikings.  He is C.S.C.S., RSCC, USAW Level 1, FMS, MobilityWOD Specialist, CPR, AED and First Aid certified.
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