Daily News | John Shackleton, Villanova’s strength and conditioning guru, leaves a legacy behind
John Shackleton never made a basket. He was never announced during pregame introductions. Just add him to the list of big-time contributors to ‘Nova’s 2016 and ‘18 NCAA titles, and all the rest that the program accomplished over the last decade.
“Really what it was, I was full-time with basketball — a lot of it was observation, watching practices, communicating with the coaches,” Shackleton said over the phone Thursday, explaining that technology allowed him to monitor stresses put on bodies. “This is what we did today … maybe do that tomorrow.”
Jenkins said those words several days before Jenkins put himself into NCAA title game lore with his last-second game-winner against North Carolina. Most strength and conditioning coaches probably don’t have as much input into practice plans. Wright had related how initially he didn’t want Shackleton because he’d never worked with basketball players. That changed when Shack came over to basketball in 2012 on an interim basis.
“I got my dream job,” Shackleton said. “I want to pursue something else, but I’m actually in my dream.” Jenkins himself: “He just knows how his body moves. So everything we do, his technique is, like, flawless.”
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