Jake Suvak is entering his third year as the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at Nova Southeastern University.
Suvak is the primary strength and conditioning coach for the Men’s Basketball, Baseball, and Volleyball team’s at NSU, and oversees the graduate assistant program development and implementation for all other teams at NSU. Suvak is also responsible for the daily operation of the weight room, student-athlete body composition and nutrition education, Graduate Assistant continuing education program, and Intern CSCS prep program.
Suvak is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the NSCA and holds the Exos Performance Specialist certification.
Throughout his time at NSU, Suvak has designed programs that have helped produce four Sunshine State Conference Freshmen of the Year, one SSC Athlete of the Year, and one SSC championship.
Before coming to NSU in 2019, Suvak worked as an intern at the University of South Florida (2018-19) while completing his Master’s Degree in Exercise Science. During this time, Suvak also became XPS certified and worked as an Exos performance specialist in Tampa in their private facility, and with the NFLPA Trust.
Suvak received his Bachelor’s Degree in 2018 from Westfield State University, where he played ice hockey for the Owls. Suvak stayed busy during his college summers completing a Strength and Conditioning internship at Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio (2018), working as a personal trainer at ASAP Fitness (2016-18), and working as the Strength and Conditioning coach at Ohio Hockey Academy (2014-15).
Prior to working towards his bachelor’s degree, Suvak played three years of junior hockey in New York and Ontario. During this time, Suvak’s career in Strength and Conditioning began when he worked as a Strength and Conditioning coach at Athletic Republic in Rochester, N.Y. (2011-13).
