Anthony Schlegel is back on Ohio State’s strength and conditioning staff.
The former Ohio State linebacker is now listed in Ohio State’s faculty database as a strength and conditioning coach for the football program, as initially reported by The Silver Bulletin.
Schlegel, who played for the Buckeyes from 2003-05, was previously an assistant strength and conditioning staff for Ohio State from 2011-15. He left the Buckeyes in 2015 to focus on running his football equipment company, The Difference USA, which sells The Difference Striking Machine, a portable hand placement/striking machine that he invented during his first tenure at Ohio State and is now used by football teams all over the country.
Schlegel, who was also the Jacksonville Jaguars’ head strength and conditioning coach under Urban Meyer in 2021, previously returned to Ohio State on an interim basis in 2024, when he temporarily replaced a strength and conditioning coach who was away from the team due to surgery. Schlegel is now rejoining the Buckeyes full-time.
Ohio State had a vacancy on its strength and conditioning staff with the departure of associate director of strength and conditioning AT Turner, who left Ohio State to become Brian Hartline’s head strength and conditioning coach at USF.
Schlegel joins a group of former Ohio State players on the Buckeyes’ staff that includes linebackers coach James Laurinaitis, co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach Tim Walton, assistant wide receivers coach Devin Jordan, special teams quality control coach Nate Ebner and director of player development C.J. Barnett.
