Football
- Title:
- Strength and Conditioning Coach
Kevin Yoxall assumed duties as Rice's Head Strength & Conditioning Coach in January 2014.
A veteran of 26 years on the collegiate level, Yoxall comes to Rice after spending one year supervising the strength and conditioning programs at Strake Jesuit School in Houston. Prior to Strake, Yoxall was the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Auburn for 14 years.
Yoxall earned his undergraduate degree from East Texas State and began his coaching career in 1987 at TCU as a graduate assistant. Two years later after earning his Master's in Physical Education, he was promoted to the head strength coaching position with the Horned Frogs. He left Fort Worth in 1992 to take over the conditioning programs at Minnesota, then moved west in 1996 to guide the strength and conditioning program at UCLA before moving on to Auburn in January of 1999.
Yoxall set a collegiate regional record-holder for power lifting in 1982, and was named a Collegiate All-American power lifter in 1983. He was named Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year by the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Coaches Society in 2005, and the Pac-10 Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year in 1998. Yoxall received his profession's highest honor in 2002 when the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association named him "Master Strength and Conditioning Coach".
He and his wife Nancy have two children, Collin and Marlee.
