Episode #131: Madison Peele

Madison Peele is an Assistant Sports Performance Coach at the University of Southern California. Peele joined the Trojans in 2022 where she works with the beach volleyball, women’s tennis, women’s water polo, women’s cross country, and men’s cross-country programs. Peele arrived at USC, after completing a Graduate Assistant position at Florida State University. She first began as a student intern coach in 2020 and before being promoted to a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach working with the Olympic sports. During her time as FSU she was also heavily involved on the sports science side of performance, serving as a graduate research assistant from one year in addition to working as a tactical strength coach with Florida State’s ROTC program and Bravo Company’s Cadets. She started her career as a student volunteer at East Carolina in 2019 and from there interned as a tactical strength coach at Fort Bragg assisting with the training for combat engineers, intelligence, combat support and the 1-7 air defense artillery Soldiers.

Peele is active herself in and out of the weight room. She’s lifts 3-4x a week trying out new exercises, methods, and programs, and runs 5-6x a week, trying to accomplish new challenges and goals she has set for herself, while balancing the rigors of the collegiate coaching schedule. She is an avid lifter and enjoys painting, surfing, and hanging out with her 2 dogs when she is not training in the weight room.