Hokie ClubBLACKSBURG – Virginia Tech Football head coach Brent Pry announced Monday that he and Dwight Galt have completed hiring Tech's football strength and conditioning staff led by Galt. Greg Allen, Jarrett Ferguson, K.J. Florence and Matt Greenhalgh have joined the Hokies as assistant strength and conditioning coaches for football.
Allen joins the Hokies after spending the past six seasons at Old Dominion (2016-21). He served the past two seasons with Galt after being promoted to assistant director of sports performance in 2019. In addition to all aspects of the strength and conditioning program for ODU Football, he also worked with the men's and women's swimming programs, as well as ODU's women's lacrosse and field hockey programs.
Prior to Old Dominion, Allen served as a strength and conditioning intern at Richmond, working with football, men's lacrosse and baseball. The Clarksburg, West Virginia native also interned at Marshall in 2015, assisting with the off-season football training program for the Thundering Herd.
Allen worked as a personal trainer for two years after earning his master's degree in exercise science and health promotion from the California University of Pennsylvania. He earned his bachelor's degree in exercise science from West Virginia Wesleyan following his four-year playing career as an offensive lineman. Ferguson comes back to Blacksburg after previously enjoying a 13-year tenure on Tech's strength and conditioning staff. He served as senior director of strength and conditioning for football (2006-17) and senior director of strength and conditioning for Olympic sports (2018). Ferguson played running back for the Hokies from 1998-01 and played a key role on Tech's squad that played in the 1999 National Championship Game. He was selected by the Buffalo Bills in seventh round of the 2002 NFL Draft.
The Goodview, Virginia native served as assistant director of strength and conditioning at North Carolina (2005-06), overseeing the football and women's basketball teams. He began his career in the performance industry as an assistant strength and conditioning director at Ohio University in 2004, overseeing the training regiments for the baseball, women's soccer, wrestling and volleyball for the Bobcats.
In 2018, Ferguson founded Steel Train Performance in Moneta, Virginia. He has served as the strength and conditioning coach at his alma mater of Staunton River High School since September 2020. Ferguson holds a bachelor's degree in physical education and a master's degree in education from Virginia Tech. Florence joins the Hokies from Ole Miss where he served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach for the football the past two seasons. He worked primarily with the running backs, tight ends, quarterbacks and specialists during his tenure at Ole Miss, helping the program earn a berth in the 2022 Sugar Bowl and a victory in the 2021 Outback Bowl.
Florence spent the 2019 season at Marshall, serving as assistant strength and conditioning coach for football and softball. Prior to joining the Thundering Herd, Florence worked as an intern on the University of Georgia strength and conditioning staff in 2018, where he worked with the football program.
The Virginia Beach, Virginia native received a master's degree in kinesiology from Georgia in 2019 and graduated with ODU with a bachelor's degree in exercise science in 2014. Greenhalgh previously served four seasons as director of football strength and conditioning at Georgia Southern (2018-21). He was part of a staff that helped propel the Eagles to three bowl appearances, including wins in the 2018 Camellia Bowl and 2020 New Orleans Bowl. During his tenure, he helped develop a pair of 2020 NFL Draft picks in DB Kindle Vildor (Chicago) and K Tyler Bass (Buffalo).
Prior to Georgia Southern, Greenhalgh was an assistant director of strength and conditioning at Appalachian State (2014-17). During his tenure with the Mountaineers, he was part of a team that compiled a 37-14 record and Sun Belt Conference titles in 2016 and 2017. Appalachian State also registered three bowl victories during his tenure. During a two-year stint as a strength and conditioning graduate assistant at The Citadel (2013-14), he worked with the baseball program and assisted with football, men's and women's track and field, as well as wrestling.
The Chepachet, Rhode Island native worked as a strength and conditioning intern at Rhode Island and at South Carolina. He was a four-year letterwinner on the offensive line for Rhode Island from 2008-12 and graduated with a degree in kinesiology. Greenhalgh served as a team captain during his senior season after earning a spot on the Allstate Good Works Team as a junior in 2011. He owns a master's degree in sports management from Western Carolina.