Joe DeLeo, MS

PhD Student Exercise Physiology, MSc Sports Performance, MS New Media Management, BBA Sport, Event & Hospitality Management, NSCA-CSCS

Joe is a lifelong rower who has been involved with the sport since age 12. Joe was a varsity oarsman at The George Washington University and was named team MVP his senior year. He then spent the next three years as the graduate assistant coach for Syracuse Men’s Rowing under coach Dave Reischman. Joe launched his business, LEO Training, in 2014. Since then, Joe has consulted with junior, collegiate, masters, and national team rowing programs, as well as interviewed hundreds of rowers, rowing coaches, and strength coaches through the LEO Training podcast.

Joe moved to the Kansas City area in 2017 and worked three years as the strength and conditioning specialist for Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Joe served as head strength and conditioning coach for Portuguesa de Remo from 2018 to the conclusion of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. During his tenure as Head S&C won a total of 10 international medals at World Cups and European Championships. The Portuguese LM2x qualified for the Tokyo Olympics and finished 13th. Joe has also been a presenter at the USRowing Conference and Joy of Sculling Conference. Joe earned a master’s of science in sports performance with first-class honors from the University of Limerick in 2021. He is currently a PhD student in exercise physiology at the University of Kansas under the auspices of Dr. Andrew C. Fry and Dr. Kathryn Ackerman. His research interests include athlete monitoring, female athlete physiology, strength and conditioning, and relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S).

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