ECU names Sirignano as director of strength & conditioning

by | Dec 23, 2024

By ECUPirates.com

Mike Sirignano, who has nearly 20 years of experience training student-athletes, has been named the Director of Strength & Conditioning at East Carolina University according to an announcement by head coach Blake Harrell.

Sirignano comes to ECU after a six-month stint as an assistant director at Rutgers University. He is tasked with overseeing all things related to the ECU strength and conditioning program with an emphasis on football performance.

Prior to his time at Rutgers, Sirignano worked one year at Georgia State as the head strength and conditioning coach and three years at the University of Louisville (2018-21) as the director of strength and conditioning.

Before going to Louisville, Sirignano spent five years (2014-18) at Appalachian State, where he started as the director of strength and conditioning in 2014 and was later promoted to assistant athletic director for athletic performance.

Sirignano previously worked on the strength and conditioning staffs at South Carolina (2012-14), Elon (2012), Rhode Island (2010-12), Northeastern (2009-10), Bryant (2009) and Holy Cross (2006-07).

The list of notable student-athletes he has trained includes more than 110 football players who have gone on to play in the National Football League and four track and field Olympians. He has been a member of coaching staffs that have made 10 bowl appearances, won four conference championships and posted seven 10-win seasons.

Outside of the college ranks, Sirignano served as the president and director of his own company, Next Level ELITE Training Center, from 2007-09, and as the defensive coordinator and strength and conditioning coach at Woonsocket (R.I.) High School in 2008-09.

A 2007 graduate of Bridgewater (Mass.) State with a degree in physical education, Sirignano was a two-time NCAA Division III All-American, three-time All-New England honoree and three-time Eastern College Athletic Conference all-star.

Sirignano and his wife, Karolina, have a son, Dominic and a daughter, Izzy.

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