Colorado University Athletics
Football
Nov 29 (Sat)
10 AM
- Title:
- Director of Sports Performance
- Email:
- david.c.forman@colorado.edu
Dave Forman is in his third year as the director of sports performance at the University of Colorado, officially joining the staff on January 7, 2013.
Forman, 36, joined the Buffalo staff from San Jose State University, where he was the football strength and conditioning coach under Mike MacIntyre for two seasons, having joined the Spartan staff in January 2011. When MacIntyre was hired as head coach at Colorado, he came to Boulder along with several other SJSU coaches and staff members.
He had an immediate impact on the CU program: from 2010 through 2012, the Buffaloes lost 274 games due to injury by players in the two-deep, an average of 91 per season; in 2013, that number dropped to 23, much of it credited to his training techniques, and was low again in 2014 aside from a couple of freakish injuries.
Forman had moved up the road to San Jose State from Stanford, where he served three years as a Cardinal strength and conditioning assistant coach (2008-10), where he worked directly with the football and wrestling programs. Stanford’s football team had a banner season his final year there, going 12-1 in 2010 (a school record number for wins), including a 40-12 rout of No. 13 Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl en route to finishing fourth in both final major polls (Associated Press, Coaches). The Cardinal made back-to-back bowl appearances in 2009-10, a program first in nearly 20 years (1991-92). The wrestling team finished a university all-time best 11th at the 2011 NCAA Championships.
Forman got his start in strength and conditioning as an undergraduate student assistant at James Madison, working under Greg Werner while as a member of the football team, from 1999-2002. He then had the opportunity to intern for the Detroit Tigers organization during the team's 2004 spring training in Lakeland, Fla.
In 2005, Forman switched coasts, as he worked as a volunteer in strength and conditioning at the University of Southern California. He then decided to go back to school for his Master’s, becoming a graduate assistant at the University of Mississippi for the 2005-06 athletic year. He completed a summer internship at the University of Notre Dame in 2006, where he worked with the football program.
Forman's first full-time coaching position in the business came as an assistant coach at Sacramento State in the fall of 2006, where he worked with the football and women's basketball teams. In 2007, he became Northern Arizona University's assistant strength and conditioning coach before moving on to Stanford.
He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology in 2002 from James Madison University, where he lettered three times for the Dukes in football at both linebacker and safety. He earned his Master's degree in Exercise Science from Mississippi while working as an S&C grad assistant in 2006.
A native of Glendale, N.Y., he graduated from St. Francis Prep High (Fresh Meadows, N.Y.). He is certified by the Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa).
