Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach
- Email:
- bgainey@memphis.edu
- Phone:
- 901-678-2278
Bethany Gainey enters her fourth season in the Bluff City after spending four years on Middle Tennessee’s strength and conditioning staff. While in Murfreesboro, Gainey served as an assistant sports performance coach and worked with the Blue Raiders soccer, volleyball and softball programs. She also was an adjunct faculty member in the school’s Sports Medicine and Exercise Science Department.
Prior to Middle Tennessee, Gainey worked at Troy University as an assistant strength and conditioning coach from 2005-07. While at Troy, she worked specifically with the Trojans men’s and women’s basketball programs.
In 2002-03, she was head of strength and conditioning at Georgia State in Atlanta, Ga. While there, Gainey developed training programs for the Panthers men’s and women’s basketball and track and field squads. She also had collegiate stops at Charlotte in 2001-02 (volunteer strength and conditioning coach) and Wake Forest in 2000 where she started her career as an intern.
Gainey is a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association and the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association.
She graduated with a degree in Exercise and Sports science from UNC Greensboro in 2000. Gainey earned a master’s degree in Sports Management in 2007.
