Strength & Conditioning

Strength & Conditioning

Director of Athletic Performance and Fitness, Seth Diters, prepares athletes with the tools to succeed in college athletics and compete at a high level in the NEPSAC. “Dynamic Training” is a co-curricular option for varsity-level athletes to train during a season where they are not competing and is geared towards advancing potential. Dynamic and team lifts aim to increase athletic performance and reduce the likelihood of injury through resistance, plyometric, and mobility training.

Coach Diter’s goal for any non-varsity athlete is to help put them in a position where they feel comfortable and confident in the weight room and hopefully build them into a varsity-level athlete over their time at Hotchkiss.

The MAC Performance Center is a 4500 square foot facility that holds six double sided power racks, 30 yards of indoor turf, belt squat machines, dumbbells, functional cable trainer, and GHD. The Overstrom Strength and Conditioning Room and Reed Cardio Mezzanine provide an additional two racks, freeweights, and cardio machines.

Seth Diters

Coach Diters came to Hotchkiss in the summer of 2024 and has been a certified performance coach for 17 years. Before Hotchkiss, Coach Diters worked in major college athletic departments for over 15 years including University of Iowa, University of Maryland, Florida State University, Mississippi State, and Virginia Tech and has experience working with a broad range from golf and tennis to baseball and wrestling. Coach Diters has worked with the highest level of teams and athletes, including current MLB players, NCAA individual champions and future Olympians, All-Americans, and conference and NCAA championship teams.