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Juney Barnett

Juney Barnett

  • Title
    Director of Sports Performance - Football
  • Email
    jbarnett@niu.edu
  • Phone
    (815) 753-1295

A veteran strength & conditioning coach with a résumé that includes stops at the collegiate and professional levels, Juney Barnett enters his second season as the Director of Sports Performance for the NIU Football program.

Barnett, who spent the 2019 football season working with the Huskie football team as assistant director of sports performance, returned to DeKalb after spending the spring of 2020 as assistant strength & conditioning coach at West Point.

Before his first stint at NIU, Barnett served as an assistant strength & conditioning coach for the Baltimore Ravens from 2012-2019 at the same time NIU head football coach Thomas Hammock was the Ravens’ running backs coach. That was his second tour with the Ravens having worked with Baltimore from 2003-05, while also serving as the head strength & conditioning coach for the Rhein Fire of NFL Europe in 2004 and 2005.

Barnett spent six seasons on the strength & conditioning staff of the Minnesota Vikings as an assistant from 2006-2011. He spent the spring of 2012 at Kansas as an assistant strength & conditioning coach for the Jayhawk football program, before returning to the NFL

A member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association, Barnett earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in exercise science at Bloomsburg University where he was also a member of the football team.