Episode #048: Matt Tometz

Matt Tometz is the Sports Science Coordinator and Sports Performance Specialist at TCBoost Sports Performance in Northbrook, Illinois. At TCBoost, Coach Tometz works with youth, middle school, high school, college, and professional athletes from all sports as well as organizes the sport science efforts and experiments for the performance staff. Prior to his current position, he was a sport scientist with TCU athletics and research assistant at The Sport Science Center at TCU. He also spent time as a youth baseball instructor for the Texas Rangers Baseball Club, an equipment manager at TCU, and intern coach at TCBoost.

In addition to his coaching, Tometz is the host of The Talking Shop Podcast, is a published research author in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, as well as a freelance videographer creating his own coaching education videos and content for YouTube and social media as well as companies like 1080 Motion. 

Tometz is a former college baseball pitcher that saw his career go from walk-on to competing in the 2015 NCAA DII College World Series for Truman State University (MO). He continues to stay heavily involved in lifting, using his own training to test out new programs, research, technologies, and ideas on himself prior to implementing them with his athletes.