UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State football coach Bill O’Brien has announced the addition of Dwight Galt IV, Sean Hayes and Steven Williams, Jr. to complete the team’s strength and conditioning staff.
The trio will serve as Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coaches for Football under the direction of Craig Fitzgerald, who last month was named Penn State’s Director of Strength and Conditioning for Football.
A Philadelphia native, Fitzgerald had served the past three years as Director of Football Strength and Conditioning at the University of South Carolina.
Galt was a member of Fitzgerald’s staff at South Carolina since January 2010, serving initially as a graduate assistant and then as an assistant strength and conditioning coach. Previously, he was a strength and conditioning intern under his father, Dwight Galt III, at the University of Maryland, assisting with the football, lacrosse and baseball teams. Dwight Galt III is Vanderbilt’s Football Strength and Conditioning Director.
A native of Silver Spring, Md., Galt IV was a defensive lineman at Maryland from 2005-09. He started every game in 2009 at defensive end, leading all Terrapins defensive linemen with 4.5 sacks. He was a “Tough Terp” annual award recipient four times from 2005-09.
A native of Merritt Island, Fla., Hayes joins the Penn State staff after serving as a graduate assistant football and strength and conditioning coach at Jacksonville University since July 2010. At Jacksonville, he was the varsity outside linebackers coach and junior varsity defensive coordinator in addition to assisting with strength and conditioning program.
Like Williams, Hayes is a Harvard University graduate (2009) and played linebacker on the Crimson football team. As a senior, he garnered second team All-Ivy League recognition. In the first six months of 2010, Hayes was a player/coach for the L’Hospitalet Pioneers of the European Football League.
Williams also joins the Nittany Lions from South Carolina, where he served as a graduate assistant with the strength and conditioning program since January 2011.
He worked with the football, track and soccer teams and was a graduate assistant with the Gamecocks’ football team, helping coach defensive backs and special teams.
Williams participated in the Detroit Lions’ mini-camp and was a teacher and assistant football coach at Wagner (Texas) High School for two years following his 2008 graduation from Harvard University.
He was a record-setting cornerback at Harvard from 2004-07, earning first team AFCA All-America honors. He holds the Crimson’s single season (8) and career (16) interception marks and recorded 15 pass break-ups as a senior.
O’Brien is in the process of determining the Nittany Lions’ final assistant coach, who will be on offense.
