Former Blue Hen lacrosse player and 1996 University of Delaware graduate Jason W. “Jay” Beaulieu begins his second year as head strength and conditioning coach at the University of Delaware in 2007-08.
Beaulieu spent his previous two years as director of athlete development and director of sports performance at Velocity Sports Performance in Alexandria, VA and Baltimore, MD.
Beaulieu is responsible for supervising the strength and conditioning efforts for Delaware’s 23 sports programs and over 600 student-athletes and designing and implementing strength and conditioning plans for all of the Blue Hen men's and women's athletic teams.
A native of West Chester, PA, Beaulieu, 35, was a four-year letterwinner as a midfielder for the Delaware men’s lacrosse squad under head coach Bob Shillinglaw in 1993-96, serving as co-captain for the 1996 squad. He led the nationally-ranked Blue Hens to North Atlantic Conference (later America East) titles in 1993 and 1994. He played in 34 career games, scoring 10 goals and dishing out six assists. He also was a member of the UD men’s soccer team. He also was an All-State soccer and lacrosse player at Henderson High School in West Chester, PA.
Beaulieu earned his degree in physical education studies with a concentration in strength and conditioning from Delaware in 1996, serving as assistant strength and conditioning coach for the UD Ice Skating Science Development as a student, designing strength and conditioning programs for Olympic and elite figure skaters and for the UD club ice hockey team. He also served as a strength and conditioning consultant at Delaware from 1996-98 and served as supervisor of events for the UD football program in the fall of 1997.
He left Delaware to become director of strength and conditioning and a physical education teacher at St. Stephens and St. Agnes School in Alexandria, VA, serving from 1998 until 2001. While at St. Stephens and St. Agnes, he coordinated strength and conditioning programs for all the school’s athletics teams and also served as assistant coach for the boy’s varsity lacrosse team.
After three years at St. Stephens and St. Agnes, Beaulieu returned to college athletics and served as associate director of strength and conditioning at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS for two years until August, 2003. While at Kansas, he implemented strength and conditioning programs for the Jayhawk football, track and field, and women’s rowing teams and also worked closely with men’s basketball, volleyball, swimming and diving, women’s soccer, and tennis.
He also supervised the Kansas Strength and Conditioning Intern Program and worked with the sports medicine staff in rehabilitation of injured athletes. In April, 2003, he served as assistant director of the Jayhawk Iron Football Speed and Strength Camp, instructing high school football players and coaches on skills to train safely and effectively.
He left college athletics to become director of sports performance at Velocity Sports Performance in Baltimore, MD for one year before moving to the company’s 21,000 square feet Alexandria, VA training facility as director of athlete development and co-owner in June, 2004. In his position at VSP, Beaulieu designed training programs to help enhance strength, explosive power and linear and lateral speed development in elite and professional athletes. He also was responsible for training and managing a staff of six sports performance coaches and conducting community outreach and customer relations programs.
Beaulieu, who currently resides in Newark, DE with his wife Kathleen (Kittila), also a Delaware graduate, is a certificed professional strength and conditioning specialist, a certified Level One coach by USA Weightlifting, and is a member of the National Strength & Conditioning Association and the United States Weightlifting Federation.
Strength and Conditioning Coach Jay Beaulieu