Ethan Bakken
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- Title:
- Head Strength and Conditioning Coach
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- Organization:
- Sanford Health
Ethan Bakken, is employed by Sanford Power and assigned to BSC as the school’s first full-time strength and conditioning coach for Mystics Athletics.
From 2018-2021 he started the strength and conditioning department at Valley City State University as well as an adjunct professor in the Kinesiology and Human Performance department. Prior to his time at VCSU, he was a strength and conditioning intern at North Dakota State University in the summer of 2018. From 2016-2018, he completed his graduate assistantship at Northern State University in Aberdeen, SD receiving his Masters of Education in Sports Performance and Leadership. At NSU, he was the primary strength and conditioning coach for the baseball, women’s soccer, and cross-country teams while assisting with football, men’s and women’s basketball. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in exercise science from the University of Mary, he went on to complete an internship at the University of Minnesota in the summer of 2016.
