Kolton Black has been joined the Gettysburg College’s strength and conditioning staff as the first full-time assistant strength and conditioning coach for the 2026-27 academic year.
Black joins Reggie Overton’s staff after spending the last two years as a sports performance graduate assistant at Salisbury.
While with the Sea Gulls, Black led sports performance for men’s soccer, rookie football and both golf programs while assisting with football, lacrosse and tennis.
Prior to his time at Salisbury, he served as a strength and conditioning intern with the football program at University of North Carolina. While in Chapel Hill in 2024, he assisted with the set up and break down of every lift and running session. He collected five- and 10-yard acceleration times using Zybek timing gates and used force plates to collect CMJ height, propulsive power, eccentric braking forces and RSI.
During the 2023-24 academic year, he was a sports performance intern during his senior year at Juniata, assisting with football, women’s lacrosse, field hockey, soccer, volleyball, basketball, track and field, tennis and swimming.
Black was a four-year member of the Juniata men’s lacrosse team, serving as a captain as both a junior and senior. He was a Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll selection in both 2023 and 2024. He graduated with a bachelor of science in biology from Juniata in 2024.
While at Salisbury, he earned his master of science in health and human performance, graduating in May.
