July 27, 2007

Chris Wood Hired to Fill Three-Part PLU Athletics Position

Chris Wood will be busy when he comes to work at Pacific Lutheran University starting on August 1.

Wood joins the PLU athletic department with three titles: Names Fitness Center coordinator, strength and conditioning coordinator, and assistant track & field coach. Wood most recently served as fitness center director, strength coordinator and adjunct physical education instructor at Bucks County Community College in Newtown, Penn., and as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at LaSalle University in Philadelphia.

Wood earned his undergraduate degree in exercise science from the University of Puget Sound in 2003, and his master’s degree in sport and recreation administration from Temple University in 2005. Wood’s wife, Nicole, will teach starting this fall in PLU’s Department of Movement Studies and Wellness Education, formerly the School of Physical Education.

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