Gord Farnell - Assistant Director of Human Performance - Goggin Ice Center - Staff Directory

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Gord Farnell

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Assistant Director of Human Performance - Goggin Ice Center
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Gord Farnell joined the Miami Athletics staff as Assistant Director of Human Performance – Goggin Ice Center in August 2025. In his first season with the RedHawks, Miami matched the largest single-season improvement in regular-season wins in program history (+15 in 1996-97) and the third-largest nationally over the past half-century (excluding forfeits and COVID), finishing the 2025-26 campaign with a winning record for the first time since last qualifying for the NCAA Tournament in 2015. The RedHawks also won their first trophy in a decade, crossing time zones and the Atlantic Ocean to claim the Belpot at the Friendship Four in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In the process, the RedHawks returned to the national rankings for the first time since 2019 and went on to equal their highest finish in the NCHC standings since 2015-16.

Farnell came to Oxford after four years as the head strength and conditioning coach for the AHL's Calgary Wranglers.

During his time in Calgary (2021-2025), Farnell designed and executed strength and conditioning programs for the Wranglers' team, tailoring training programs to individual athletes. He also facilitated fitness assessments, collected and analyzed sport science data, collaborated with athletic training staff and coordinated nutrition before and after games.

Farnell was previously a strength and conditioning coach at the University of Alberta from 2015 to 2021. He also served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Premier Strength Sport Performance during several summers. Farnell completed internships with the University of Denver (2019), the Edmonton Oilers (2018-19), Boston University (2018) and the University of Alberta (2015-16)

Farnell is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and a Certified Professional Sport Scientist through the National Strength & Conditioning Association. Additionally, he is a Certified Sports Nutritionist according to the International Society of Sports Nutrition and has been certified in levels 1-3 of the Jordan Strength Certification System. He holds two degrees from the University of Alberta (where served for four years as a lab assistant and two years as a teaching assistant): a Bachelor's of Kinseiology in Sports Performance (2015) and a Master's of Coaching in Strength and Conditioning (2020).