Jason Dierking came to Louisville in 2005 and serves as the Director of Olympic Sports Performance, where he directly oversees men’s and women’s swimming, men’s soccer, and men’s golf. 

As the energy systems specialist on the Sports Performance staff, Dierking leads the implementation of innovative testing and tracking procedures for metabolic fitness, including VO2max testing, blood lactate analysis, metabolic profiling, and GPS tracking.  He has written extensively in the area of heart rate training and conditioning, and has spoken at several regional and national clinics and conferences on the topic.

Prior to his current role, Dierking served as the Assistant Director at Louisville from 2005-2018. He was an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Indiana University from 2001-2005, and was the graduate assistant strength coach at Indiana from 1998-2001.  During the summer of 2000, Dierking worked as the strength and conditioning intern at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, NY, where he helped train athletes that were preparing for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. 

Dierking earned his master’s degree in exercise physiology from Indiana University and a bachelor’s degree in adult physical fitness from Eastern Kentucky University, where he also played baseball for the Colonels.  He is a certified member of the CSCCa, NSCA, USAW, Functional Movement Systems, and Precision Nutrition.

Jason is a competitive runner and triathlete, and is a marathon finisher, a two-time Ironman triathlon finisher, and a 12-time half-Ironman triathlon finisher. During his second Ironman in 2013, he started a charity for spinal cord injury patients in Louisville, which has since raised over $250,000 to pay housing and transportation costs for outpatients at the Frazier Rehab Institute.