MSU football strength and conditioning coach Ken Mannie has been named the strength and conditioning coach of the year.
Mannie is in his 21st season at the helm of MSU’s strength and conditioning, and has transformed players like former-MSU linebacker Taiwan Jones and senior linebacker Darien Harris into bulked-up studs. In fact, Darien Harris was ranked as the sixth strongest player in the NCAA this past season.
Mannie was a former walk-on at Akron and eventually became a starting offensive guard for an Akron team that finished 8-2 and ranked eighth in Division II.