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
- Hurff Joins Field Hockey StaffThe Stanford field hockey program has started to build out its staff under head coach Roz Ellis, as Laura Hurff has joined the team as an assistant coach.
- From the Desk of Bernard Muir53 Olympians in Tokyo have Cardinal ties, more than Stanford has sent to any other Games. There are more Team USA Olympians from Stanford than any other university, and, remarkably, 22 of the 34 Cardinal sports programs that compete in the Olympics have at least one athlete represented in these games.
- Spring Academic Honor RollThree hundred and thirty-five Stanford student-athletes were named to the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll, as announced by the conference.
- Lemos Awarded Postgraduate ScholarshipFifth-year senior Jacie Lemos has been awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship for her academic and athletic achievements on The Farm.
- 2020 Tokyo Olympics CentralStanford will once again be well represented on the world's biggest stage, with a school-record 53 athletes scheduled to compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
