Paul Chapman - Director of Strength & Conditioning - Women's Swimming and Diving Coaches

Paul Chapman

Title:
Director of Strength & Conditioning
Email:
paul.chapman@unh.edu
Phone:
603-862-4081

Paul Chapman is in his 24th year as the director of strength and conditioning at the University of New Hampshire in 2025-26. Chapman is a member of the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (strength and conditioning coach certified), USA Weightlifting (certified level 1 coach), the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and he was the state director of the National Strength and Conditioning Association in North Dakota from 1991-95. In 2005, he earned the title of Master Strength and Conditioning Coach from the CSCCA. He has also authored numerous publications related to strength and conditioning and has trained and consulted several NFL, CFL and NHL athletes, and prospective athletes preparing for all-star games, bowl games and pre-draft testing. Chapman coordinated the building of the state-of-the-art Jerry Azumah Performance Center in 2003 and major upgrades in 2010 and 2019. During his time at UNH he has guided UNH student-athletes to NCAA tournament appearances in women’s and men’s ice hockey, football, women’s and men’s soccer, gymnastics, women’s volleyball, women’s lacrosse, field hockey, swimming and diving, skiing, and track and field. Prior to UNH, Chapman was the director of strength and conditioning for the University of North Dakota from 1992-2001 and served there on an interim basis during the 1991-92 season. His efforts were an integral part of a winning tradition at UND, as the football team was the Division II national champions in 2001, the men’s ice hockey team won a Division I national title in 2000 and 1997 and the women’s basketball team was the Division II national champion in 1997, 1998 and 1999. Chapman is a 1990 graduate of Dickinson State University in North Dakota with a B.S. degree in Biology. He then went on to earn at M.S. in Exercise Science from the University of North Dakota in 1994. An outstanding college athlete, Chapman was inducted into the Dickinson State Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000 for his efforts on the football field as an offensive lineman. He was a two-time First-Team All-American selection as well as a Second-Team All-American honoree in his four-year playing career. Upon graduation, he was a fourth-round draft choice of the Saskatchewan Rough Riders in the Canadian Football League, where he played for two seasons. In 2018, Chapman was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in San Antonio, Texas at the AFCA Convention.

Paul and his wife, Kimberly, live in Somersworth, N.H., and are the proud parents of their son, Tyler, and their daughter, Brittani.