Jon Sanderson holds the distinction as the only college strength-and-conditioning coach in NCAA history to both play in a men’s basketball NCAA Final Four and serve on a coaching staff in at least one.
And now he’s coming to Notre Dame with that distinction and more than 20 years of experience with Irish men’s basketball coach Micah Shrewsberry announcing Sanderson Saturday as the program’s new director of men’s basketball strength & conditioning.
Sanderson arrives at ND after spending one season at Vanderbilt, but the bulk of his experience came at the University of Michigan — 15 years — where he was a part of two Final Fours (2013, 2018).