Brianna Kanz
Assistant Sports Performance Coach
Sport Responsibilities: Women’s Soccer, Women’s Water Polo, Sailing, Synchronized Swimming
Home Town: Cleveland, OH
Currently Resides: San Jose, CA
Birthday: June 13
Professional Education:
- University of Akron – BS Exercise Science
- University of Akron – MS Sports Science
- University of Akron – MS Exercise Physiology
Past Experience and Accomplishments
- 2018 – Present – Assistant Sports Performance Coach; Stanford University
- 2017 – 2018 – Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach; Rice University
- 2017 – Assistant Director of Strength & Conditioning; University of Mary Washington
- 2015 – 2017 – Graduate Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach; University of Akron
- 2014 – 2015 – Strength & Conditioning Intern; University of Akron
Biography:
Coach Kanz is starting her first season on The Farm as the Sports Performance Coach for Women’s Soccer, Women’s Water Polo, Sailing and Synchronized Swimming.
Prior to joining Stanford University, Bri served as an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at Rice University. Bri was directly responsible for designing and implementing the year-round strength and conditioning programs for Women’s Soccer, Volleyball and certain aspects of Track & Field events. Prior to Rice, Bri was the Assistant Director of Strength & Conditioning at University of Mary Washington. At UMW she assisted in overseeing 23 Varsity Sports. She was solely responsible for developing and implementing programs for Men and Women’s Basketball, Men and Women’s Tennis, Men and Women’s Golf, Swimming, Field Hockey, and Riding.
Bri received both her Masters and Bachelor Degrees at the University of Akron where she started her Strength & Conditioning career as a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach. While at Akron, she was directly responsible for developing and implementing programs for Softball and the four-time MAC Championship Swim team. She also assisted with the execution of strength and conditioning programs for Men & Women’s Basketball, Men & Women’s Soccer, and Volleyball.
Coach Bri holds the National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist certification.
Athletics Headlines
- Final Weekly HonorFor the second time this season, redshirt junior Zach Ryan was named the Pac-12's Player of the Week, following a championship-clinching goal over the weekend.
- This Week's Games CanceledDue to COVID-19-related issues within the Cardinal program, Stanford baseball's Wednesday game at Pacific, as well as the three-game home series against Washington this week, have been canceled.
- Malone Claims Final Weekly HonorHaving captured the NCAA all-around and high bar titles to help guide Stanford to the 2021 national championship, junior Brody Malone has been named CGA National Gymnast of the Week.
- Roemer Rakes in AnotherJewel Roemer earned her third MPSF Newcomer of the Week this season. She is currently third on the team with 26 goals for No. 2 Stanford.
- Tourney TimeNo. 19 Stanford (8-2, 6-2 America East) opens play as the No. 3 seed and squares off against Maine in Thursday's semifinal round of the America East Championship.
