Jan. 12, 2012
San Diego State head coach Rocky Long announced the hiring Thursday of Joey Boese as the Aztec football team's strength and conditioning coach. Boese (pronounced boze-EH), who played collegiately at Wisconsin, comes to The Mesa after four years on the strength and conditioning staff at Texas A&M.
"Coach Boese is a great addition to the Aztec coaching staff," Long said. "His work ethic and positive attitude, as well as his background as a Division I student-athlete, will help our players prepare for the physical and mental demands of the season. His efforts will be invaluable in our continued success both on and off the football field."
Boese has been the first assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Aggie football squad since January 2008. In that role, he instructed all phases of the team's training program, including implementing speed and burst workouts, teaching Olympic and technical lifts and preparing athletes for the NFL combine. During his stay in College Station, Texas A&M advanced to the Independence, Cotton and most recently, the Meineke Car Care Bowl where the Aggies defeated Northwestern on New Year's Eve.
Boese also worked as the head strength & conditioning coach for the baseball squad from August 2009 to July 2011, when the Aggies advanced to the College World Series. He helped train eight Major League Baseball Draft picks in 2011, as well as the sixth player chosen in the 2010 Draft in pitcher Barret Loux.
The Irvine, Calif., native starred at Mater Dei High School in Orange County before earning a scholarship to play football at the University of Wisconsin. He was a two-year starter and four-year letterwinner as a defensive back for the Badgers from 1998-2001, and was a part of one Sun Bowl and two Rose Bowl championship squads. He also was a three-time academic all-Big Ten pick his final three campaigns.
Boese continued his playing career in the Canadian Football League for the Calgary Stampeders from 2003-06, where he was the league's second-leading tackler in 2004 and was nominated for the CFL's Rookie of the Year award in 2003.
After his playing career, he served an assistant strength and conditioning and safeties coach at Emporia State in Kansas and was a football video intern at the University of Nebraska in 2007.
Boese earned his bachelor's degree in communication arts from Wisconsin in December 2002, and also obtained his master of science in health, physical education and recreation from Emporia State in December 2008. He is engaged to be married to Aimee Croft.