Rance Terry is in his third season as an assistant director of strength and conditioning, working with Purdue baseball. His responsibilities include designing, implementing and overseeing year-round strength, speed and conditioning workouts for the Boilermakers.
He is officially certified through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) as a strength and conditioning specialist as well as the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa), Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coach Certified (SCCC) certification examination as well as USA Weightlifting and ALTIS. The SCCC is the most comprehensive certification of its kind and tests the candidate’s scientific knowledge, as well as an ability to apply this knowledge in a live working, practical environment.
Before coming to Purdue, Terry spent the 2019 season with Louisiana Tech baseball as a strength & conditioning coach in a season that ended with the draft pick of David Leal and the free agent signing of Mason Mallard.
Terry’s previous three seasons were spent at Florida Gulf Coast University as an assistant director of strength and conditioning for the baseball and softball programs. His first season was the most successful in program history as FGCU won a program record 43 games, claimed the program's first Atlantic Sun Tournament championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time. After starting the season 24-3 and defeating then No. 2 and eventual national champion Florida, then No. 1 FSU and Miami in the same season for the first time ever, FGCU rose to as high as No. 9 in the Collegiate Baseball News poll -- marking the highest ranking ever achieved by any athletics program in school history. With the ASUN's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament in hand, the Eagles earned the No. 2 seed in the Chapel Hill Regional and defeated No. 3 Michigan, 10-6, in its first-ever NCAA Tournament game. In those three seasons he had nine players drafted, Jake Noll, Keegan Collett, Evan Lumbert, Mario Leon, Josh Dye, Kutter Crawford, Garrett Anderson, Julio Gonzalez, as well as free agent sign of Peyton Gray.
Terry was the strength and conditioning coach for the Kansas City Royals minor league affiliate in Idaho Falls, Idaho, in 2016. He worked with current MLB players Meibrys Viloria, Josh Staumont, Nick Dini, Jakob Junis, Eric Skoglund, Richard Lovelady, Andres Machado and Sam Selman.
In 2015, he held the same position with the St. Louis Cardinals at their State College, Pa. affiliate. He worked with current MLB players Jack Flaherty, Harrison Bader, Junior Fernandez, Edmundo Sosa, Luke Weaver and Jordan Hicks.
Prior to St. Louis, Terry served as a graduate assistant strength coach at Tarleton State University between January and March 2015. He assisted with the development of football as well as all Olympic sports.
After graduating from Tarleton State, Terry spent time interning at Texas Tech University and Texas Christian University working with football as well as all Olympic sports. His time at TCU included working with the 2016 No. 7 nationally ranked Horned Frog football team, culminating with a victory in the Alamo Bowl. He also worked with the No. 4 nationally ranked baseball team that reached the national semifinal in the College World Series and had seven players drafted.
A 2012 graduate of Lubbock Christian University, Terry earned a bachelor's degree in exercise science while catching for the Chaparral baseball team. In 2015, he earned also a master's degree in Kinesiology from Tarleton State.