NSCA's Midwest Region

Midwest Region

Regional Coordinator: Ryan Keller, MS, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT,*D
Contact: rkeller@rec.tamu.edu

Ryan Keller is the Strength and Conditioning Director for Recreational Sports at Texas A&M University. Keller oversees multiple strength and conditioning facilities on campus, along with a large personal and small-group training program. He teaches courses including advanced strength and conditioning, and exercise assessment and prescription. Keller works with a wide variety of athletes (including cheer and dance teams) and personal training clients.

Arkansas 

State Director: Bryan Phillips, PhD, CSCS 
Contact: bphillips@harding.edu

Bryan Phillips is a Professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, Program Coordinator for the Master of Science in Strength and Conditioning, and Pre-Physical Therapy Advisor at Harding University in Searcy, AR.  He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of anatomy and biomechanics, exercise physiology and exercise pharmacology.  He previously coached track and field at Harding for 30 years (12 as head coach).

Kansas 

State Director: Gerald Larson, PhD, CSCS 
Contact: gerald.larson@avila.edu

Gerald Larson is an Associate Professor and Program Director of Kinesiology at Avila University in Kansas City, MO. He teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in the areas of exercise and stress physiology, biomechanics and motor control, measurement and evaluation, and evidence-based nutrition and recovery. A lifelong scholar-practitioner, his personal and professional interests are related to functional psychophysical training with an emphasis on tactical strength and conditioning.

Louisiana

State Director: Tim Kettenring, CSCS 
Contact: timkettenring@gmail.com

Bio to come soon!

Missouri

State Director: Megan Cottet, PhD, CSCS
Contact: meganlynncottet@gmail.com

Bio coming soon! 

Oklahoma 

State Director: Taylor Dinyer-McNeely, PhD, CSCS
Contact: taylor.dinyer@okstate.edu

Taylor Dinyer-McNeely is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology, Applied Health and Recreation at Oklahoma State University. She teaches courses in the areas of sport and coaching sciences and strength and conditioning. Her research interests include the examination of fatigue thresholds and the underlying physiological responses as they apply to resistance exercise.  

Texas 

State Director: Drew Gonzalez, MS, CSCS,*D, TSAC-F,*D
Contact: dg18@tamu.edu

Bio to come soon!