University of Minnesota Athletics
Women's Golf
Stitz, Jimmy
Jimmy Stitz
- Title:
- Assistant Director of Athletic Performance - Men’s Basketball & Women’s Golf
Jimmy Stitz joined the University of Minnesota Athletic Performance staff as an Assistant Director of Athletic Performance in May 2024. Stitz works with the men’s basketball and women’s golf programs.
Stitz comes to the Gophers after a three-year stint as the Director of Olympic Sports at Utah State. During his time with the Aggies, men's basketball earned three straight postseason appearances, won the men's basketball Mountain West regular season championship in 2023, and won its first NCAA Tournament game since 2001. Additionally, Stitz worked with the Aggie women's volleyball team. He aided in their historic success as they captured three straight conference championships and two NCAA tournament berths for the first time in 43 years.
Prior to his time at Utah State, Stitz spent eight seasons as an athletic performance coach for USA Volleyball Women’s Senior National Team. Stitz spent his first season with Team USA as a seasonal assistant strength and conditioning coach in 2014 through the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Mentorship Program. He took the reins of the team in 2015 prior to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where the team earned a bronze medal. More recently, Stitz was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. This is the first Olympic Gold for women's indoor volleyball in American history.
Before joining the USA Volleyball staff, Stitz worked as an intern at the former Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. Additionally, he was selected from a pool of national candidates to serve as an assistant coach through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) assistantship program in 2013.
Stitz graduated from California State Fullerton with a master’s degree in kinesiology in 2013, adding to his bachelor’s degree in 2011 from Minnesota State University, Mankato in exercise science and a minor in athletic training. It was at Minnesota State where he began his professional career from 2009-11 working as a volunteer assistant strength and conditioning coach primarily with the Mavericks’ baseball, basketball, hockey and football teams.
While earning his master’s, Stitz was the first-ever head strength and conditioning coach for Charter Oak High School in Covina, Calif., where he grew the number of teams using the weight room from one to six in just 16 months.
Stitz is also a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu blue belt and enjoys training in his free time. Stitz holds an RSCC certification.
Stitz was married in 2020 and the couple has two children.
Stitz at at Glance
Basketball
Conference Championship: 2023
NCAA Appearances: 2022, 2023
NIT Appearances: 2021
Volleyball
Conference Championship: 2021, 2022, 2023
NCAA Appearances: 2022, 2023
Team USA
Gold Medals: 7x, Including the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan
Silver Medals: 3x, Including the 2019 World Cup
Bronze Medals: 2x, Including the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Stitz comes to the Gophers after a three-year stint as the Director of Olympic Sports at Utah State. During his time with the Aggies, men's basketball earned three straight postseason appearances, won the men's basketball Mountain West regular season championship in 2023, and won its first NCAA Tournament game since 2001. Additionally, Stitz worked with the Aggie women's volleyball team. He aided in their historic success as they captured three straight conference championships and two NCAA tournament berths for the first time in 43 years.
Prior to his time at Utah State, Stitz spent eight seasons as an athletic performance coach for USA Volleyball Women’s Senior National Team. Stitz spent his first season with Team USA as a seasonal assistant strength and conditioning coach in 2014 through the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Mentorship Program. He took the reins of the team in 2015 prior to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where the team earned a bronze medal. More recently, Stitz was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. This is the first Olympic Gold for women's indoor volleyball in American history.
Before joining the USA Volleyball staff, Stitz worked as an intern at the former Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. Additionally, he was selected from a pool of national candidates to serve as an assistant coach through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) assistantship program in 2013.
Stitz graduated from California State Fullerton with a master’s degree in kinesiology in 2013, adding to his bachelor’s degree in 2011 from Minnesota State University, Mankato in exercise science and a minor in athletic training. It was at Minnesota State where he began his professional career from 2009-11 working as a volunteer assistant strength and conditioning coach primarily with the Mavericks’ baseball, basketball, hockey and football teams.
While earning his master’s, Stitz was the first-ever head strength and conditioning coach for Charter Oak High School in Covina, Calif., where he grew the number of teams using the weight room from one to six in just 16 months.
Stitz is also a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu blue belt and enjoys training in his free time. Stitz holds an RSCC certification.
Stitz was married in 2020 and the couple has two children.
Stitz at at Glance
Basketball
Conference Championship: 2023
NCAA Appearances: 2022, 2023
NIT Appearances: 2021
Volleyball
Conference Championship: 2021, 2022, 2023
NCAA Appearances: 2022, 2023
Team USA
Gold Medals: 7x, Including the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan
Silver Medals: 3x, Including the 2019 World Cup
Bronze Medals: 2x, Including the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Isabella & Reese McCauley - Gopher Women's Golf - Minnesota Made
Friday, May 09
Teeing Off - ANNIKA Intercollegiate
Monday, September 09
Gopher Golf Facilities
Wednesday, October 18
Mooty Chipping and Wedge Facility
Sunday, October 01
