Rhode Island Surf's Winter Athletic Performance Series is back by popular demand! Ran by our very own certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, this program is tailor-made for players striving to improve all aspects of their game during the offseason months.
During each session, players will spend half of their time performing sports-specific activities to enhance their movement ability in the areas of strength, agility, quickness, flexibility, and explosiveness. The other half will be geared towards on-the-ball applications of these movements and overall technical improvements. Injury prevention also features as a large aspect of this program, something that is often overlooked and not addressed until injury occurs.
This program is open to external players.
**Each participant will receive an RI Surf Athletic Performance t-shirt to wear for the sessions w/black shorts**
Tom Longval spent many years working as Head, Assistant, or Grad Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at URI, Siena College, Providence College, UMass Amherst, American International, Springfield College, and College of the Holy Cross, with the goal of developing the team’s strength, speed, agility, power and flexibility. Injury prevention was addressed in all programs as well. At each of these collegiate positions Tom oversaw up to 400 athletes at a time and managed programs for as many as 19 sports.
Tom also has experience working in professional athletic strength and conditioning with the Worcester Ice Cats, Boston Celtics and New York Mets. He has a Master’s Degree in applied exercise science and strength and conditioning from Springfield College and has done research during his graduate studies on conditioning of youth athletes.
Since changing career paths, Longval has continued to stay involved in training youth athletes. He worked with the RI Olympic Development Program for many years and has privately trained several individual and groups of athletes, many of whom have gone on to play collegiately as well as professionally.