Elijah Piñon joined UTRGV Athletics as an assistant strength & conditioning coach on Feb. 3, 2025. Piñon works with the UTRGV football and women’s swimming & diving programs.
Piñon comes to UTRGV from North Texas, where he had been a graduate assistant strength & conditioning coach working with football and track & field since March 2023. Piñon has previous experience as a sports performance intern at USC, where he worked with the football performance staff from May 2022 to March 2023, at Cal State Fullerton, where he worked with Olympic sports during the spring of 2022, and at UCLA, where he worked with football during the summer and fall of 2021.
Piñon graduated cum laude from Cal State Fullerton with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology (strength & conditioning concentration) in 2022. He earned his Master of Science in Kinesiology with an emphasis in sport psychology from North Texas in May 2025.
Piñon is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist by the National Strength & Conditioning Association. He is also American Heart Association FIRST AID/CPR/AED Certified.
