Dr. William Brechue

Dr. William Brechue is a Professor of Physical Education at the United States Military Academy at West Point NY. In this role he serves as the Director of the Center for Physical Development Excellence (the department’s research center) and program director of the Kinesiology Bachelor’s Degree program. Previous academic appointments include the Department of Kinesiology and Health Studies at the University of Central Oklahoma (2006), the Department of Kinesiology at Indiana University (1995-2002) and at the University of Florida College of Medicine in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (1987-1993) and Department of Medicine (1993-1995). Prior to completing his doctoral work Dr. Brechue taught grade school and high school Mathematics and Physical Education.

In addition to academic appointments, Dr. Brechue has also served as an athletics coach at the high school level as a head coach of Track and Field (boys and girls; 1982-1984), Wrestling (1976-1978), and Basketball (junior high boys and girls; 1982-1984) and as an assistant football coach (1982-1984; 1999-2001).

At the university level, he coached defensive line coach for the University of Central Missouri football team (2002-2006) and was an assistant Track and Field coach at the United States Military Academy (Throws; men and women; 2006-2010).

Dr. Brechue is also a regional coach through USW weightlifting; he has been coaching competitive weightlifters for over 15 years and in each of his coaching assignments he has served as the Strength and Conditioning coordinator in addition to being a field coach.