shawn.preston@umanitoba.caShawn works with the Bison volleyball, hockey, basketball and swim teams as well as overseeing the Youth Athlete Development program.
He has nearly 10 years of experience dealing with the Long Term Athlete Development process, and preparation of Elite International athletes. This list includes athletes that have competed in the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics as members of the Canadian Snowboard team, Canadian Alpine Ski team, 2011 Rugby World Cup, 2014 Youth Olympics and Rugby Junior World Cup, as well preparing athletes with LTAD principles or for their professional competitive seasons in the NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB, UFC, International combative sports seasons, and numerous NCAA division 1 and CIS scholarship athletes.
Recently Shawn has returned to Canada from his second visit to China where he was contracted to deliver strength and conditioning services to a group of selected high medal potential Chinese National Team athletes. The athletes he supported where competitive in the sports of Tae-Kwon-Do, Judo, and Boxing where he has had the opportunity to prepare 4 Chinese National Games Champions, and most recently the 6th ranked Taekwondo athlete in the world in her weight class. Between contracts in China Shawn spent a year at the Canadian Sport Institute in Calgary contracting with the development of elite sport programs for U19 National team members of Rugby Canada Women’s National Team, carded members of Gymnastics Canada, as well as the Hockey Canada development program, and elite lacrosse clubs.
Shawn received his Bachelors of Science in Athletic Training at the University of Maine-Presque Isle and a Masters in Science Education with a focus of Athletic Training at Old Dominion University. At ODU his research emphasis was focused on the use of functional movement and strength performance testing within Sports Medicine assessment. While studying at ODU he served as a Sports Medicine Graduate Assistant with Christopher Newport University working with the football, basketball, lacrosse, tennis and various other athletic teams and was a part of 6 Conference Championships and numerous trips to the NCAA Championships. Shawn is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
