Bobby Fisk, who was a basketball player in his own college days and coached the sport after college, joined the NJIT Athletic staff in September 2014 from Xavier University in Cincinnati, where he was assistant coach of strength and conditioning for the entire Musketeers' program, which competes in the Big East Conference.
Entering his sixth season at NJIT, Coach Fisk works with all 19 Highlander Athletic teams, on all aspects of sports performance, including strength training, speed/agility/conditioning, nutrition and recovery.
NJIT has enhanced the athletics program, particularly in areas that benefit the student-athletes directly, giving the Highlanders one of the elite athletic venues in the Northeast.
The 4,600 square foot strength and conditioning facility features: 25 yard turf area, seven platforms and 10 stations for barbell exercises. EliteForm technology was installed which is designed to capture and analyze the athletes weight lifts in real-time and improve student safety.
Fisk, a native of Schenectady in the Capital Region of Upstate New York, spent over two years at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY, where, as head strength and conditioning coach he worked with successful teams, including women's soccer (William Smith College), which won the 2013 NCAA Division III National Championship; football (Hobart), which advanced to the Division III national quarterfinals in 2012 and the regional finals in 2011 and 2013; and basketball, where Hobart reached the second round of the 2012 NCAA Tournament.
Moving to the Division I level with Xavier in 2013-14, Fisk worked with all 16 of the school's teams, with a primary assignment to women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, baseball, and men's and women's tennis.
He is a graduate of the State University of New York College at Oneonta (BS, Business Economics, 2008), Averett University of Danville, VA (MBA, 2010), and California University of Pennsylvania (MS in Exercise Science, Performance Enhancement & Injury Prevention, 2013).
As a student-athlete, Fisk was a men's basketball player at NCAA Division I UMBC in Baltimore for three years before transferring to Oneonta, where he was on the team for two years, serving as captain as a senior and earning All-State University of New York Athletic Conference honorable mention.
As a senior for Oneonta's Red Dragons, he finished 16th in the nation in Division III in 3-point shooting percentage (.441) and 22nd in 3-pointers made per game (3.2) as a senior at Oneonta.
After graduation from Oneonta, he entered coaching while pursuing his master's degree at Averett, serving that program as assistant men's basketball coach (two years) and head strength and conditioning coach (one year).
Having received his master's degree from Averett in December 2010, he returned home to the Schenectady area and worked April 2011 to July 2011 as assistant strength and conditioning coach at nearby Siena College and with the minor professional basketball Albany Legends (head strength and conditioning coach).
Fisk holds multiple certifications and professional memberships.
