David Snedden

Email:

dsnedden@govst.edu
Year:

8
Title:

Strength and Conditioning Coach
Phone:

(708) 235-7167

Bio

The 2025-26 season is David Snedden's 8th year as strength and conditioning coach for the Governors State women’s basketball program.

The 2024-25 season was the second straight record-setting season for Coach Tmack's staff and the GSU Jaguars - two-time back to back CCAC Coach of the Year Awards in 2023-24 (23-7 season, NAIA Nationals) and then broke all school records with the historic 29-6, 1st place CCAC championship season in 2024-25 - advancing with three NAIA National Tournament wins to the Final 8 in Sioux City, Iowa and along the way upset region #1 Campbellsville, KY at Nationals.

GovState WBB -first NAIA National 1st team All-American team selection for Senior F Zareia Chevre and a third-team All-American team selection for Grad Student G -Tabetha Jones - both were named first-team All-CCAC Conference selections and both were career record setting players at GSU with Chevre totaling 44 points in a game to set that mark and also her 1,000 points scored in college career . Jones is the school's 2nd all-time leading scorer with nearly 1,500 career points and is the all-time assists leader.

Teammates Sr. G - Da'Naria Washington (1,000 career points and a 4-time All-CCAC defensive player of the week award winner in 2024-25 and Jr. G- Cencere McDaniel (2nd team All-CCAC) with all 4 GSU players earning all-CCAC post-season honors and Coach Tmack added back-to-back IBCA Women’s NAIA Coach of the Year honors for 2024-25 being selected for the IBCA award in May, 2025.

Three GSU players earned all-CCAC honors in 2023-24 with Tabetha Jones (first team All-CCAC) and Angelique Cowan and Zareia Chevre, (2nd team All-CCAC selections). Cowan ended her GSU career as the second all-time scoring leader with 1,133 career points and Jones is 4th all-time with 918 career points.

The 2023-24 Jaguars' set new school records for wins in a season with a 23-7 record, finishing second place in the CCAC and earning GSU women's basketball first trip to the NAIA Nationals. Coach Snedden was part of the coaching staff leading Tabetha Jones to first team All-CCAC honors and second team All-CCAC for Angelique Cowan and Zareia Chevre.

In the 2021-2022 season, Snedden worked with a squad that had three players average over 30 minutes per game. GSU remained competitive with just nine players available on a regular basis, due in part to its conditioning program.

In 2020-21 Snedden oversaw the team's conditioning program during the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping the Jaguars fit despite numerous stoppages in team activities.

During the 2019-20 season Sneeden worked with a squad that at times numbered just five players, yet managed to qualify for the postseason for the first time in team history. Four GSU players were well-conditioned enough to average over 30 minutes per game.

In 2018-19, Sneeden helped conditioned a Jaguar squad that played most of the season with seven players, yet still managed to win a school-record 16 games. GSU also won a record-nine conference games and upset a nationally-ranked team for the first time in three seasons.

Snedden previously served as director of PEAK performance at SportsPLUS Physical Therapy.

The Homewood native has an extensive background in professional sports, serving as strength and conditioning coach for the Double-A Erie SeaWolves (Detroit Tigers affiliate), the Class A Cedar Rapids Kernels (Minnesota Twins) and the Class A Short Season Tri-City Dust Devils (Colorado Rockies).

On the collegiate level, Snedden served as strength and conditioning coach at North Carolina A&T (2013-14), assistant strength coach at Southeast Missouri State (2010-12) and strength and conditioning intern at Illinois-Chicago.

Snedden received a degree in Kinesiology with a focus in health and physical education from the University of Illinois and obtained a master’s in exercise science and human nutrition from Southeast Missouri State University.

Snedden is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and a registered strength and conditioning coach with the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).

David and his wife Dr. Danielle Wagner reside in Homewood with their four-year old son Alexander.