Lifetime Achievement Award
Bill Starr
NFL Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year
Mike Woicik
Dallas Cowboys
The Champions Award
Moses Cabrera
New England Patriots
A former Olympian and 1968 Olympic Team Coach, Bill Starr was an original York Barbell pioneer in the 1950’s. He later could be argued as one of the handful of coaches that created the industry now called Strength & Conditioning. A Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at Hawaii, SMU, Maryland, and the Baltimore Colts, as well as Johns Hopkins and countless training halls across the country, Starr left his mark wherever he coached. He was a big proponent of training the Big 3: Power Clean, Squat, and Bench. He pioneered the training article in the old Sport and Health Magazine and continued writing until his death. Some of his articles in MILO continue to set a standard for training modalities. He authored "The Strongest Shall Survive: Strength Training for Football and Defying Gravity." Bill passed away in 2015 at the age of 77.
Mike Woicik, recipient of the NFL Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year Award, is recognized as one of the best in his field. Mike has received this award five times in his career. From 1990-1996, Woicik had a major impact on the structure of the Cowboys strength program and offseason training. By implementing incentives for those who performed well in training sessions, players stayed in Dallas during the offseason and had fewer injuries. Woicik left the Cowboys in 1997 and spent time with the Saints and Patriots only to return to the Cowboys in 2011. After 26 seasons in the NFL, Woicik has been the Strength & Conditioning Coach with Super Bowl winning teams six times (three with the Cowboys and three with the Patriots).
Moses Cabrera began his career with the Patriots in 2011 as Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach before becoming the Director of the program in 2016. This is Cabrera’s second Super Bowl Championship as he was part of the Patriots staff that won the title in 2014. Prior to joining the Patriots staff, Cabrera was an assistant strength coach for one year at Colorado and six years at Fresno State. At these institutions, Moses implemented training programs for football, basketball, lacrosse, and soccer. He began his coaching career at Oral Roberts University where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology, health and exercise science in 2000.