Head Strength Coach for Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey, Field Hockey, Baseball, Women’s Crew

Joe Maher was named Yale’s Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach in August of 2007 and was promoted to Associate Head Strength and Conditioning Coach in July 2011.  Before Yale, Maher was an assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Richmond.  Prior to that, he was a graduate assistant in the Kinesiology Department at Louisiana State University-Shreveport, where we was also a coach in the USA Weightlifting Development Center. 

Maher graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 2003 where he played ice hockey and received his B.S. in exercise physiology.  He also holds his Master of Education specializing in Strength and Conditioning from LSU-Shreveport. 

Maher is a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (C.S.C.S). He resides in Hamden with his wife, Renee, and two sons, Austin and Hunter.