Cumberland Athletic Director Ron Pavan announced the hiring this week of former Bulldog football player Matthew Hickmann as the department’s Strength and Conditioning Coach, effective July 19.
Hickmann replaces another former Bulldog football player in the Strength and Conditioning position – Jared Fugate, who will become a graduate assistant in the same department at LSU this year.
Hickmann graduated from Cumberland in December 2008 with a bachelor’s in Fitness and Wellness.
In his three years as a Bulldog Hickmann garnered First Team All-Mid-South Conference Accolades and two MSC Player of the Week honors as a defensive back. He played in 30 total games for the Bulldogs.
Hickmann interned under Fugate at CU and also under trainer Lee Allison at the Jimmy Floyd Center in Lebanon, TN. Since January he has served as a volunteer in the Strength and Conditioning department at Vanderbilt, (a “volunteer” at Vandy? Wouldn’t the Commodore faithful consider that blasphemy?) helping with the football and baseball teams for the Commodores.
There will be much more football coverage to come over the course of the summer. Sorry there wasn’t more funny stuff in this article but Hickmann could probably pound anybody who ticked him off by saying the wrong thing.
Single ladies who want to check out a picture of Matthew Hickmann and inquire about his availability click here: http://www.cumberland.edu/athletics
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