Bill Hughan is in his first year as a sports performance coach at Stanford following a two-year tenure as head strength & conditioning coach for the New York Jets of the National Football League.
Hughan spent nine years in the NFL with stops in Atlanta from 2008-2010 and Oakland from 2004-07.
From 2001-03, Hughan was an assistant director of strength & conditioning at the University of Missouri where he worked with 17 programs including football. He was promoted to interim director of the department before departing for the Oakland Raiders.
He has been a graduate assistant at Columbia University (1999-2000), an intern at Yale (1997-98) and also spent a summer as the strength & conditioning coach for the AAA Omaha Golden Spikes (Kansas City Royals) baseball team.
Hughan earned his undergraduate degree in exercise science from Springfield College (Mass.) and earned a master’s degree in applied physiology from Columbia.