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TED<br />

RATH<br />

Assistant Strength<br />

& Conditioning<br />

Years with Lions: 7<br />

Years in NFL: 7<br />

Ted Rath returns for his seventh season as the<br />

Lions assistant strength and conditioning coach<br />

after joining the team during the 2009 offseason.<br />

He had spent the previous two years as the<br />

assistant director of strength and conditioning for<br />

his alma mater, the University of Toledo. Rath was a<br />

linebacker for the Rockets (2003-2006) and helped<br />

them claim the 2004 MAC Championship and earn<br />

two bowl game berths, including the 2004 Motor<br />

City Bowl at Ford Field.<br />

While working with Toledo’s strength and<br />

conditioning program, Rath directed the strength<br />

regimens for all 15 of their Olympic Sports. He<br />

also assisted with all phases of football training<br />

protocols, including design and implementation<br />

of their workouts. Prior to being named assistant<br />

director, Rath worked as a graduate assistant<br />

and focused on the strength programs for men’s<br />

basketball, baseball, track, cross country, golf<br />

and swimming.<br />

Rath, along with Coordinator of Physical<br />

Development Jason Arapoff, started the annual<br />

Detroit Lions Strength and Conditioning Clinic in<br />

2011. The event is a forum for providing, sharing<br />

and exchanging information in the ever changing<br />

world of strength & conditioning.<br />

After graduating from Toledo with a degree in<br />

Physical Education, Rath started his professional<br />

career at nearby Crestwood (Dearborn Heights,<br />

Mich.) High School where he was an assistant<br />

football coach as well as their director of speed<br />

and strength training. The Monroe, Mich., native<br />

is certified through the Collegiate Strength and<br />

Conditioning Coaches Association (C.S.C.C.A.).<br />

Rath is a member of the advisory board for<br />

UltimateStrengthAndConditioning.com and is a<br />

contributing expert for Stack Magazine. He has<br />

written articles for multiple publications and<br />

speaks at numerous conferences and football<br />

camps throughout the year.<br />

Rath was born November 22, 1983.<br />

RATH’S COACHING BACKGROUND<br />

Detroit Lions................................................. 2009-<br />

Assistant Strength and Conditioning.....................2009-<br />

Toledo........................................................2007-09<br />

Assistant Director of Strength & Conditioning.....2008-09<br />

Graduate Assistant Strength & Conditioning .... 2007-08<br />

Crestwood (Dearborn Heights, Mich.) H.S.........2007<br />

Asst. Football Coach/ Director of Speed and Strength Training...2007<br />

EVAN<br />

ROTHSTEIN<br />

Offensive Assistant/Research<br />

& Analysis<br />

Years with Lions: 4<br />

Years in NFL: 4<br />

Evan Rothstein enters his fourth season with<br />

the Detroit Lions. Rothstein was hired in 2012 and<br />

spent two seasons as the team’s special teams<br />

quality control coach. In 2014, Rothstein became<br />

the team’s special projects coach where he worked<br />

with the defense in addition to assisting Head<br />

Coach Jim Caldwell in day-to-day operations and<br />

game day tasks. He returns in <strong>2015</strong> as the team’s<br />

offensive assistant. In this role, Rothstein will work<br />

with the offensive staff in all facets of preparation<br />

for the team’s weekly opponents in addition to<br />

continuing to assist Coach Caldwell.<br />

Rothstein arrived in Detroit after spending two<br />

seasons (2010-11) as the offensive quality control<br />

coach for the Syracuse University Orange football<br />

program. For the fall of 2009, Rothstein interned<br />

with the Syracuse University football video<br />

operations department before returning briefly<br />

to SUNY Cortland as their offensive line coach for<br />

the spring of 2010. He returned to the Syracuse<br />

University football staff as their offensive quality<br />

control coach in July of 2010.<br />

As an undergraduate student at SUNY Cortland,<br />

Rothstein began his coaching career with the Red<br />

Dragons where he served as the student assistant<br />

offensive line coach, quality control and director<br />

of video operations from the fall of 2006 to the<br />

spring of 2009.<br />

Rothstein was born April 20, 1988. The Merrick,<br />

N.Y. native attended Bellmore John F. Kennedy High<br />

School, earning recognition as a National Football<br />

Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholar<br />

Athlete for the Cougars. Rothstein graduated<br />

SUNY Cortland with a bachelor of science in sport<br />

management in 2009 and a master of science in<br />

sport management in 2012. He and his wife, Carol,<br />

married in July of 2013.<br />

ROTHSTEIN’S COACHING BACKGROUND<br />

Detroit Lions................................................. 2012-<br />

Offensive Assistant/Research & Analysis............<strong>2015</strong>-<br />

Special Projects.............................................................2014<br />

Quality Control/Special Teams........................... 2012-13<br />

Syracuse....................................................2010-11<br />

Quality Control....................................................... 2010-11<br />

SUNY Cortland................................................2010<br />

Offensive Line................................................................2010<br />

<strong>DETROIT</strong> <strong>LIONS</strong><br />

EXECUTIVES AND COACHING

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