When he landed his first full-time job as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Harvard in 2009, Brian Hess surely saw the role as one that would help lay the foundation for his career.
But never could he have predicted that experience would be as invaluable as it is now.
With campus closed and all the players on the North Carolina football team scattered across the country amid the coronavirus pandemic, Hess, in his second season as UNC's head strength and conditioning coach, has had to take creative measures to keep the team in shape.