Mickey Marotti Named Assistant AD
Mickey Marotti assistant athletic director for football sports performance at The Ohio State University
Mickey Marotti
Dec. 15, 2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio - There is one person Ohio State head coach
Urban Meyer trusts in the critical area of strength and conditioning training and overseeing sports performance, and he is an individual Meyer has worked with or hired three times previously: Mickey Marotti. Make that worked with or hired four times, as today Meyer named Marotti, formerly the director of sports performance at the University of Florida, as assistant athletic director for football sports performance at The Ohio State University.
Called a "master" of motivation and mental preparation by Meyer when the two were paired at Florida, Marotti will take over the strength and conditioning program of the team Jan. 2 when the Buckeyes return from the TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl.
"There are times in the year when the strength staff has more contact with the team than the coaching staff," Meyer said, "and I have complete trust in Mickey Marotti's abilities to prepare our student-athletes to be the strongest, fastest and mentally toughest football players they can be."
Marotti and Meyer first met when the two were graduate assistants at Ohio State, in 1987. Marotti, who also worked as Grove City High School's strength coach that year, earned a master's of arts degree in strength and conditioning from Ohio State before moving on to the University of West Virginia to be a strength assistant. He graduated from WVU with a master's of science degree in sports medicine.
From there he went on to the University of Cincinnati, where he spent seven seasons (1990-97) as head strength and conditioning coach for UC's 20-sport program. He also worked in the areas of diet analysis and planning and assisted in student-athlete rehabilitation from injuries.
Midway through Meyer's five-year run as an assistant coach at Notre Dame, Marotti had the opportunity to work with him again when he was named Notre Dame's director of strength and conditioning in 1998. He spent seven seasons in South Bend, coordinating all aspects of the strength and conditioning program for the 26-sport department, including developing a year-round program for the football team, coordinating camps, clinics and special events, and developing policies and regulations.
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