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Collin Crane & Lance Schuemann bios
COLLIN CRANE
DIRECTOR OF ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE 1ST SEASON • CARSON-NEWMAN ’13
Collin Crane was named Director of Athletic Performance for Georgia Men’s Basketball on May 12, 2022.
Crane sports 10 seasons of experience, including stints within the SEC at Mississippi State and Florida. During that span, teams with Crane on their strength and conditioning staff earned postseason bids in seven of nine possible years and averaged 22.8 wins per season.
Crane has spent the past five seasons at Mississippi State, helping the Bulldogs earn postseason bids each year possible. In addition, the Bulldogs were a lock for a postseason invitation in 2020 when they were an NCAA bubble team before the tournament was canceled. Three MSU players during Crane’s tenure were on NBA rosters during the 2021-22 season – Reggie Perry (Portland Trail Blazers), Quinndary Weatherspoon (Golden State Warriors) and Robert Woodard II (San Antonio Spurs).
Crane was one of the first strength coaches to partner with Mississippi State’s Athlete Engineering Program. The multidisciplinary research collaboration between the university’s academic and athletic departments explores human performance, processes and analysis. Since the initiative started, Crane has co-authored multiple peer-reviewed studies on various topics which include force plate analysis and wearable technology in addition to basketball shoe design and assessment.
Prior to his tenure in Starkville, Crane worked at Chattanooga (201517), Missouri State (2014-15) and Florida (2012-14). In two seasons at Chattanooga, the Mocs compiled 48 victories, swept the Southern Conference regular-season and tournament titles and earned an NCAA Tournament bid in 2016. He worked with the men’s basketball, tennis and golf programs at Missouri State in 2014-15 and also spent two seasons as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Florida from 2012-14. While in Gainesville, the Gators made runs to the 2013 Elite Eight and the 2014 Final Four, and Crane organized NBA Draft training regimens for standouts such as Bradley Beal, Chandler Parsons, Eric Murphy and Patric Young.
Crane played basketball at Carson-Newman University, where he was a four-year starter and three-time captain. Crane ranked fifth in career starts for the Eagles when he graduated. As a senior, Crane helped Carson-Newman to a 20-8 record, the program’s first 20-win campaign in a decade. Following the season, Carson-Newman renamed the program’s leadership honor the Collin Crane Leadership Award.
Crane earned his bachelor’s in Exercise Science from Carson-Newman in 2013 and his master’s in Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion from Mississippi State in 2020. Crane is married to the former Courtney Lawson. They have two children: a son, Carson, and a daughter, Miller.
Lance Schuemann joined the UGA Athletic Association’s Sports Medicine staff in July 2018 as an associate athletic trainer. His primary responsibilities include prevention, immediate care, management, treatment and rehabilitation of athletic injuries for the Georgia Basketball program.
Prior to joining the Georgia staff, Schuemann spent the previous five seasons as the athletic trainer for the men’s basketball and women’s golf programs at the University of Wyoming. His efforts in Laramie helped translate to an extremely successful run for the Cowboys on the hardwood. Wyoming averaged 20 wins per season and reached postseason play three times from 2013-18. Most notably, the Cowboys won the 2015 Mountain West Conference Tournament to secure an NCAA Tournament bid. They also won the 2017 College Basketball Invitational (CBI) title.
Schuemann was the athletic trainer for the men’s basketball and women’s tennis teams at Charleston Southern University for two seasons from 201113 before moving on to Wyoming.
Schuemann served as an intern athletic trainer at the University of Florida, his alma mater, during the 2010-11 academic year. He worked with the men’s basketball and men’s tennis programs, which reached the “Elite Eight” and Round of 16 of their respective NCAA Tournaments that year. In addition, Schuemann was an approved clinical instructor while in Gainesville.
From 2008-10, Schuemann was a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Valparaiso University. There his responsibilities were primarily with football and baseball. Before joining the Crusaders’ staff, he also worked as an intern athletic trainer with the Florida Marlins during the spring of 2008.
A native of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Schuemann received his bachelor’s degree in Athletic Training from Florida in Dec. 2007. He worked as a student athletic trainer for the Gators’ men’s basketball team that won the 2007 NCAA Championship. Schuemann also earned his master’s in Sports Administration from Valparaiso in May 2010.
Schuemann's impressive list of certifications include: Corrective Exercise Specialist from the National Association of Sports Medicine (NASM), Board Certification from the National Athletic Trainer Association (NATA), CPR/ AED from the American Red Cross and Level 1 status from the Titleist Performance Institute.
Schuemann married Tracy Campbell, the former athletic trainer for Vanderbilt Baseball, in October of 2021.
