David Ballou - Football Coach - Indiana University Athletics

Indiana State

Sep 12 (Fri)

6:30 p.m.

David Ballou

Title:
Director of Athletic Performance
Email:
football@indiana.edu
Phone:
(812) 855-9618

• David Ballou is in his third season as Indiana football’s director of athletic performance.

• A former IU fullback, Ballou lettered in 1997, 1998 and 1999, and was recognized as the Hoosier Strength Challenge Champion.

• Eleven players earned All-Big Ten honors as the 2019 Hoosiers went 8-5 and punched a ticket to the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl, the program’s first Florida bowl game.

• Indiana’s eight wins were its most since 1993.

• Four IU standouts have moved on to the NFL under Ballou, including Washington Redskins fourth-round pick Wes Martin. He has now trained 31 NFL Draft picks in his career.

• Spent 2017 as the University of Notre Dame’s co-director of football strength and conditioning after a 14-year stint as the head strength and conditioning coach at Avon High School (Ind.).

• In Ballou’s lone campaign in South Bend, the Fighting Irish went 10-3 with a victory over LSU in the Citrus Bowl. ND posted a 4-8 record prior to his arrival. He helped develop the recipients of the Joe Moore Award, honoring the best offensive line in the country.

• Two of those linemen, guard Quenton Nelson (6) and tackle Mike McGlinchey (9), were drafted in the Top 10 of the 2018 NFL Draft. Four players were selected overall.

• Prior to his arrival at Notre Dame, Ballou worked as the head football strength and conditioning coach at IMG Academy, where the program made huge strides in speed and injury preventions.

• The 2015 team went undefeated (9-0) and ranked No. 4 in the country (USA Today). IMG also went unblemished (12-0) in 2016 and rated No. 1 nationally (MaxPreps).

• In 2016, seven IMG players were laser-timed at under 4.5 seconds in the 40-yard dash one year after having no players achieve that benchmark. Twenty-one of the 22 season-opening starters also started in the final game of the season.

• A part of the 2016 and 2017 NFL Combine Training at IMG, where he trained 26 players that were drafted into the NFL.

• During Ballou’s tenure at Avon (2002-14), teams won six state championships in multiple sports and seven others were finalists. He assisted in the development of 80 NCAA Division I athletes.

• Finalist for the 2014 NSCA National High School Strength Coach of the Year Award. He has held the credential as a certified strength and conditioning specialist (with distinction) since 2001.

• Graduated in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from Indiana and earned his master’s degree in 2009 in human movement from A.T. Still University.

• David is married to the former Leah Horn, a Bloomington native, IU pole vaulter, two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection and Indiana graduate. The couple has two daughters, Mallory (15) and Aubrey (12).