With health a top priority, Bulls bring in Swanson

bullsger · Sep 12, 2013

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Injuries have provided several substantial roadblocks in recent history for a team that has won more than 85 percent of its games with Derrick Rose, Luol Deng, Joakim Noah and Carlos Boozer all in the lineup.

While playing at full strength is nothing short of a luxury in the NBA, now more than ever the Bulls have put a premium on its roster’s health, needs and goals.

With that in mind, the team hired Jen Swanson as its Director of Sports Performance over the offseason. Her first official day at the Berto Center was Aug. 26.

Swanson comes to the Bulls after five years at Athletes’ Performance in Los Angeles as the Performance Physical Therapy Manager, where she worked with a variety of athletes—including those from the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB—with an array of circumstances.

“Jen brings an incredible set of credentials to the table as far as her education, knowledge, skill level, ability and experience in dealing with a number of pro athletes working at Athletes’ Performance, which is one of the top facilities in the country,” said Bulls General Manager Gar Forman. “She’s highly organized and possesses great communication skills. We feel like with the addition of Jen we’re covering a lot of bases and addressing a lot of different needs.”

Under Swanson, Forman’s hope is that the Bulls will possess a group which operates in conjunction to assess each player’s strengths and weaknesses as integrated training programs tailored specifically to each player’s individual needs and goals are put in place.
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“Jen’s doing a great job of making sure I’m coming in every day and stretching and trying to get my flexibility right through my whole body,” Rose said during the Las Vegas minicamp in late July. “She stays on me, and I’m happy the Bulls got her here.”
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She quickly developed a strong rapport with players during her first season and then unexpectedly developed an even stronger bond with Rose when he tore his right meniscus in November 2013.

“What she has done with the team has sort of been the next step for our league,” Bulls coach and Team USA assistant Tom Thibodeau said. “It’s a piece that probably was missing. You have a trainer. You have a strength coach. And now you have a person who works with both and where if you’re weak in a certain area, they can sort of lock into that. So I think she has been a big plus for us.”
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“Jen’s great,” Rose said.
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From last summer, obviously.

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