Allison Salter was promoted to assistant director of athletics for sports performance at MSU Denver in July, 2022, and at that time she was also named the department's senior woman administrator. She is a member of the athletics senior staff and attends NCAA and RMAC meetings.
Salter originally joined MSU Denver as its head strength and conditioning coach in August, 2021.
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Salter had been the assistant director of sports performance at Columbia. She joined the strength and conditioning staff at the Ivy League program September, 2011, and worked primarily as the strength and conditioning coordinator for the Columbia volleyball, softball, men's and women's diving, archery, men's and women's fencing and men's and women's squash teams.
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Among her responsibilities, she designed and implemented strength and conditioning programs for her assigned teams, conducted athletic performance testing and direct dynamic warm-ups, speed, agility, and conditioning workouts, and maintained on-going communication with coaching staff and athletic trainers regarding each student-athlete's well-being and performance.
Before Columbia, Salter worked in the New York Mets organization as its strength and conditioning coach for the Brooklyn Cyclones (2011), one of the organization's Class-A affiliates, and with the Gulf Coast League team (2010). With the Cyclones, she directed active warmups, on-field conditioning, weight room lifts and speed and agility drills. Salter worked directly with managers, coaches, physical therapists and athletic trainers to ensure the overall well-being of all players.
Prior to her tenure with the Cyclones, Salter worked in the strength and conditioning department at Miami (Ohio). She also served as a graduate assistant in the strength and conditioning office at Wisconsin-La Crosse, where she was the lead for women's basketball and assisted with men's basketball, baseball, softball, cross country, gymnastics, swimming and diving, track and field, soccer and football. Salter also has collegiate experience at Division I Binghamton.
A 2007 graduate of Castleton State (Vt.), Salter majored in exercise science with a concentration in strength and conditioning. At Castleton State, Salter was a student assistant with the men's ice hockey and skiing teams.
Salter earned a master's degree in exercise and sport sciences, human performances, which she received from Wisconsin-La Crosse in 2009.
