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Lecture Title: Teaching Power Cleans to Young Athletes

Monty Gibson enters his 5th season in the NFL as the Browns’ assistant strength and conditioning coach, after being named to his position on April 5, 2018.

Gibson comes to Cleveland with over 26 years of coaching experience, with 18 of those years spent as a member of the Texas A&M strength and conditioning staff. As a sports performance coach, Gibson was responsible for overseeing the strength and conditioning programs for the Aggie track and field men’s and women’s sprints and mid-distance runners, as well as the equestrian and men’s tennis teams. He also worked alongside Browns director of strength and conditioning Larry Jackson for five years (2012-16) in the Aggie football program.

In 2017, Gibson trained several of Texas A&M’s football players in preparation for the NFL Scouting Combine, in addition to assisting with the Aggie women’s basketball offseason training program. 

Previously, Gibson has served as the strength and conditioning coach for Aggie baseball, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s diving and men’s and women’s cross country.  He was also the camp director of the Texas A&M Summer Strength and Conditioning Camp from 2004-12.   Prior to being promoted as one of the school’s full-time strength and conditioning coaches in 2003, he served as a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach from 2002-03 after serving as a volunteer strength and conditioning coach from 2000-02.

Prior to joining the A&M staff, Gibson was an elementary physical education teacher at Crockett Elementary in Bryan, Texas, from 2000-02. He served as the athletic coordinator at Stephen F. Austin Middle School in Bryan from 1999-2000, where he coached football, basketball and track and supervised off-season training.

Gibson began his coaching career working for the Fort Stockton (Texas) Independent School District, teaching and coaching in the district from 1994-1999.    After his first two years at the middle school, he was elevated to the high school ranks where he was a varsity football defensive line coach, a head swimming and diving coach, an assistant track coach and a freshman football coach.

Gibson is certified by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa), in addition to being a strength and conditioning specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and USA Weightlifting. He earned the title of Master Strength and Conditioning Coach with the CSCCa in 2016.

A native of San Angelo, Texas, Gibson earned his degree in biology and life-earth sciences in 1993 from Angelo State University. He also received his master’s degree in exercise physiology from Texas A&M in 2003.

He and his wife, Leah, have three sons, Garrison, Chase and Kyle