Director of Pack Performance
Greg Goldin is the Director of Pack Performance for NC State Basketball. The "Pack Performance" team refers to a holistic support staff for basketball focusing on athletic, academic, and mental development for players, ensuring a unified approach from coaches to nutrition and sports medicine, aiming to build support systems and remove roadblocks for peak performance, embodying a "village mentality" to create championship-level success.
What it is:
Prior to NC State, Goldin served two years as strength and conditioning coach for Penn State men’s basketball.
Before joining the Nittany Lions ahead of the 2023-24 season, Goldin spent the previous two years as a human performance manager with the US Navy Special Operations. Goldin oversaw strength and conditioning programs with a focus of readiness and resilience of personnel while designing and implementing testing parameters for effectiveness of such programs.
Goldin spent four seasons at LSU as the director of strength and conditioning for men’s basketball from 2017-21. The Tigers went 86-42 with two NCAA Tournament appearances, including a trip to the 2019 Sweet 16, during Goldin’s four-year tenure managing the high performance team for men’s basketball.
Prior to his time in Baton Rouge, Goldin was the director of men’s basketball sports performance at VCU from 2015-17, the head men’s basketball strength and conditioning coach at Chattanooga from 2013-15, and the director of strength and conditioning for men’s and women’s basketball at Murray State from 2012-13.
Goldin got his start as a strength and conditioning graduate assistant at VCU from 2011-12 while current Penn State head coach Mike Rhoades was the associate head coach on Shaka Smart’s VCU coaching staff.
Goldin, a New York native, earned his bachelor’s degree in health, physical education and human performance from Canisius in 2011 and his master’s degree in sport leadership from VCU in 2012. He owns both SCCC and TSAC-F certifications.