Arthur Garza is in his second season as Director of Strength & Conditioning at East Central University.
Garza will oversee the Pat O’Neal Strength and Conditioning Center while developing and implementing strength & conditioning programs for ECU’s 11 varsity athletic teams with over 400 student-athletes.
Garza returns to Ada after spending the last three summers assisting with training for two NCAA Division I football programs; Texas Christian University and Southern Methodist University.
At TCU, Garza interned for Master Strength & Conditioning coach and two-time National Strength Coach of the Year, Kaz Kazadi, over the last two summers where he helped collaborate and implement comprehensive summer strength & conditioning workouts for the football team.
He headed to Fort Worth after undergoing his first collegiate internship in the summer of 2021 with the SMU strength & conditioning staff where Kazadi first mentored Garza before arriving at TCU.
Beyond college athletics, Garza coached sports in the Texas public school systems for 11 years before realizing his true passion of training and developing the human performance of athletes. He is now a National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and a USA Weightlifting Level 1 Sports Performance Coach.
The Lubbock, Texas, native was a member of the Tigers’ football team and later earned his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from ECU in 2009. He is currently studying a master’s of exercise science at Texas A&M University – Commerce.
Garza and his wife Sarah married in 2018.
