Mike Brass
Assistant Athletic Director for Sport Performance

Mike Brass is in his 10th season as an Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Performance at the Naval Academy. Brass comes to Navy from Georgia Southern where he held the same position for three years.

While Georgia Southern football returned to the top perch of NCAA I-AA football during the last five years, many people around the program, including head coach Paul Johnson, credited Brass as one of the primary reasons for the success. Among his peers, he was named as the 1998 and '99 National Strength and Conditioning Association's (NSCA) Professional-of-the-Year for the Southern Conference. The award recognizes coaches who have demonstrated excellence in their respective strength and conditioning programs.

As Georgia Southern's Assistant Athletic Director for Athletic Performance, Brass provided a direct strength training leadership role to the Eagle football program while coordinating off-season and in-season weight training programs for the remaining 14 Georgia Southern teams.

Prior to his appointment at Georgia Southern, Brass served as head strength and conditioning coach at Tulane from 1992-96. He also spent three seasons heading the strength and conditioning efforts at Dartmouth (1990-92) after earning his first position at Wisconsin-Whitewater as strength coach in 1985.

Brass was a two-sport standout at Gering (Neb.) High School, earning letters in football and track. He earned his bachelor's degree in Education from Doane (Neb.) College in 1985 before acquiring a master's in Fitness Management from the United States Sports Academy one year later.

Brass holds membership in the National Strength and Conditioning Association and is nationally certified as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist and as a Speed and Explosion Expert.

Brass and wife Cindi are the parents of three children -- Samantha, Danielle and Broderick.

Kirk Woolfolk
Director of Strength and Conditioning and Operations/Assistant Professor Physical Education

Kirk Woolfolk is in his 14th season as the director of strength and conditioning and operations at the Naval Academy. Woolfolk came to Navy from Notre Dame, where he served as the Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for three years. Previously, he was the strength and conditioning coach at Southwest Missouri State.

Woolfolk graduated from Arkansas in 1980 with a degree in industrial drafting, and he earned a master's degree from Arkansas in 1990 in sports management, with an emphasis in exercise science. Woolfolk was a three-year letterman as a defensive back for the Razorbacks and played on four bowl teams and one Southwest Conference Championship team.

Born July 4, 1958, the Protection, Kan. Native spent two years as a graduate assistant strength coach at Arkansas before moving on to Southwest Missouri State. He has been a clinician at two Arkansas state conventions of the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Woolfolk, who has been certified as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association, won the Kansas state masters weightlifting meet in 1993 and placed third at the national masters meet in 1994.

A four-year letterman at Protection High School, Woolfolk won 11 varsity letters in football, basketball, track and golf, earned all-state honors in football as a junior and as a senior.

Kirk and his wife, Renee, live in Annapolis and have five children -- Adam, Nolan, Haley, Natalie, and Clay.

Cliff Dooman
Director of Olympic Sports Performance /Assistant Professor Physical Education

Cliff Dooman is in his 12th season as the Director of Olympic Sport Performance and Assistant Professor in Physical Education. He came to the United States Naval Academy from The Ohio State University in 2000. He earned a MS in Exercise Science/Education from The University of Dayton in 1998 and a BS in Exercise Science from Springfield College in 1995. His certifications include the National Strength and Conditioning Associations Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, USA Track and Field Level I Coach, USA Weightlifting Senior Coach, Crossfit Level I, Crossfit Football,FMS Functional Movement Screen Certified Specialist and American Heart Association First Aid and CPR. He is responsible for assisting with football along with Heading up training programs for wrestling and baseball.

He was born May 27, 1972, in Bolton, Conn., and now resides in Annapolis with his wife, Shannon.

Rett Warren
Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach

Rett Warren is in his 12th season in the strength and conditioning department at the Naval Academy. Warren has been certified as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association, a certified Level I Coach by the United States Weightlifting Federation, and a certified Level I USA Track and Field Coach.

Warren came to Navy from the University of Maryland where he served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach. Warren has also worked at UCLA, the College of William and Mary, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of South Florida and with the Baltimore Ravens.

Warren graduated from Salisbury State in 1995 with a bachelor's of science degree in health. Born December, 2 1970, in Washington D.C., he now lives in Laurel, Md.

Justin Livezey
Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach

Justin Livezey enters his eighth season as a member of the strength and conditioning staff at the U.S. Naval Academy. He arrives in Annapolis after spending two years as the strength and conditioning coach at Siena.

After graduating from West Chester (Pa.) with a degree in health and fitness (kinesiology), he served an internship with the strength and conditioning staff of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers. After the one-year internship concluded in January of 2000, Livezey was named as the head strength and conditioning coach for the St. Petersburg Devil Rays, the minor league "A" affiliate for baseball's Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

In the fall of 2000, Livezey accepted a position with the strength and conditioning staff at Villanova where he served as the primary strength coach for baseball, field hockey, women's soccer and women's volleyball, in addition to assisting with Villanova's remaining 18 varsity sports.

He remained at Villanova for two years until accepting his most recent position at Siena.

Becca Grizzard
Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach

Becca Grizzard is in her second year as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Navy. Grizzard comes from Navy after spending time at RPI in the same capacity, where she primarily with women's basketball, women's lacrosse and men's and women's soccer.

Before that, she was a graduate assistant at Emory University, where she primarily worked with women's basketball, men's and women's tennis and softball.

She is a 2003 graduate of Bethune-Cookman, where he earned her bachelor of science in biology. She owns a master's degree from Georgia State in exercise science.

A native of Atlanta, Grizzard resides in Annapolis with her two dogs.

Joe Fondale
Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach

Joe Fondale enters his second season as a member of the strength and conditioning staff at the U.S. Naval Academy where he is responsible for program design for men's track and field, women's soccer, men's golf and sprint football teams. Fondale comes to the United States Naval Academy from Ohio University where he served as the Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning from 2005-2009. Prior to his appointment at Ohio, Fondale held assistant strength and conditioning positions at The University of North Dakota, The University of Texas-El Paso and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

While earning a BS degree in Exercise Science Fondale won four varsity letters as a fullback on the football team at Ohio University. He then stayed at his alma mater to earn an MS in Sports Sciences in 2002. His certifications include the National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, USA Track and Field Level I Coach and USA Weightlifting Senior Coach.

As a competitive weightlifter, Fondale has qualified for and competed in the USA Weightlifting national championships nine times, placing eleventh or better seven times.

A native of Junction City, Ohio, Joe, his wife, Allison and daughter Elaine, reside in Annapolis.