Hunter Glascock is in his second year as the LHS strength and conditioning coach. Glascock works with all student-athletes to teach them the importance of exercise and developing well-roundedness in all aspects of their respective sports, and his work has paid off. Glascock was recently named the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) High School Coach of the Year in South Dakota this past week thanks to the program that he has developed at LHS over the past couple years.

Not only is the award meaningful to Glascock, as it is good recognition for his career, but it means a lot for LHS and everyone involved in the program he runs.

“It’s a huge honor and it wouldn’t be possible without the support from the athletes, coaches and parents that help set this up here,” said Glascock. “It could open up the doors for more people to know about the program we have here and maybe if people know we have a strength coach, more kids will come to the program. It also helps coaches trust the program that I’m running here.”

Glascock works for the Sanford POWER program and brought his experience training athletes of many different levels to LHS. His success, as well as the performance of recent LHS athletic teams, can be attributed to the customized workouts he creates for all of the sports and the atmosphere that having a real strength and conditioning coach can create.

“With organizing the team times and just getting more teams into the weight room it helps the athletic program,” said Glascock. “I think before I came it was just football and maybe volleyball, so it’s basically helping open up the doors for all the teams to come in and helping with all of LHS athletic programs instead of just one or two. By organizing workouts where the program is set up as a strength and conditioning program you would see at a college, I try to bring it to the high school setting to help teach cleans, squats, bench and deadlift.”