Jim Couretas is in his first year at Missouri as an assistant director of basketball athletic performance. With Mizzou, Couretas will work with the women’s basketball program and assist with the men’s basketball team.
Couretas spent the past two years as a graduate assistant at Illinois State. With the Redbirds, he was responsible for the design and implementation of programs for the swimming and diving team and jumpers while also assisting with men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and football. Couretas was a linebacker on the Northern Michigan football team for three years before his football career was cut short due to injury during his junior year. He was a two-time Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletics All-Conference selection and holds two NCAA Division II football records with 29 total tackles and 16 solo tackles in a single game.
A native of Lake Orion, Mich., Couretas earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education with a minor in health and nutrition from Northern Michigan in 2008 and a master’s in exercise physiology from Illinois State in 2010. He is a certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and a member of the NSCA and United States Weightlifting as a Sport Performance Coach.