Kansas State University Athletics
Football
Lance Yancy
- Title:
- Director of Sports Science
Lance Yancy is in his fourth season at K-State in 2024. He spent his first two seasons at K-State as an assistant strength and conditioning coach but transitioned into the Director of Sports Science. In his role, Yancy collaborates with K-State optimal performance team as he monitors every sport science system K-State utilizes to ensure student-athletes are at their peak performance for practices and games.
Yancy came to Manhattan after serving one year as a strength and conditioning specialist for the 4th Fighter Wing working with F-15E Fighter Pilots at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina. It was the first stint of his professional career outside of college athletics as he worked with K-State Director of Strength and Conditioning Trumain Carroll at SMU for the 2017 season and at Arkansas for the 2018 and 2019 campaigns.
Yancy began his career at Texas A&M as a graduate assistant in the kinesiology department training Corps of Cadets for the U.S. Military Academy Sandhurst Competition at West Point during the 2015-16 academic year. He was then a sports performance and sports science intern at Texas A&M, working with the Aggie football program, as well as other sports for a year and a half.
Yancy is certified as a CSCCa strength and conditioning coach, a NSCA strength and conditioning specialist and a USA Weightlifting Sports Performance coach. A native of College Station, Texas, Yancy and his wife, Lauren, have two sons, Cooper and Calvin.
Yancy came to Manhattan after serving one year as a strength and conditioning specialist for the 4th Fighter Wing working with F-15E Fighter Pilots at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina. It was the first stint of his professional career outside of college athletics as he worked with K-State Director of Strength and Conditioning Trumain Carroll at SMU for the 2017 season and at Arkansas for the 2018 and 2019 campaigns.
Yancy began his career at Texas A&M as a graduate assistant in the kinesiology department training Corps of Cadets for the U.S. Military Academy Sandhurst Competition at West Point during the 2015-16 academic year. He was then a sports performance and sports science intern at Texas A&M, working with the Aggie football program, as well as other sports for a year and a half.
Yancy is certified as a CSCCa strength and conditioning coach, a NSCA strength and conditioning specialist and a USA Weightlifting Sports Performance coach. A native of College Station, Texas, Yancy and his wife, Lauren, have two sons, Cooper and Calvin.
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