Ansley Bates is currently an assistant strength and conditioning coach for women’s basketball, men’s tennis, and men’s lacrosse at Flagler College.
Prior to moving to St. Augustine, Bates served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Georgia Southern University, in Statesboro, from 2019-2020, and worked with women's basketball, men’s and women's tennis, cross country, and diving.
Prior to Georgia Southern, she worked as a strength and conditioning graduate assistant at Mississippi State University, located in Starkville, from 2018-2019. Bates trained women's tennis and assisted with women's basketball, softball, volleyball, women's golf, and track and field.
She served as an intern in the strength and conditioning department at the University of Alabama in 2017-2018, where she assisted with cheer, softball and women’s golf. While in Tuscaloosa, she also worked as an assistant track and field coach at Holy Spirit Catholic High School in the spring of 2018.
Bates earned her bachelor’s degree in health science with a minor in nutrition from Samford University, located in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2017, where she was a heptathlete for the track and field team. She earned her master’s degree in food science, nutrition and health promotion from Mississippi State in 2019.
She is certified with the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coach's Association (SCCC) and USA Weightlifting (USAW).
