About Adam Ringler

I’m Adam Ringler, Director of Performance for the Indiana Fever. I build performance departments that connect athlete coaching, applied sport science, and clear operating standards.

I’ve spent more than two decades working in high-performance sport. Before joining the Fever, my coaching experience included the University of Colorado Boulder, Wichita State, and Michigan State. Those experiences continue to shape how I approach athlete development, collaboration, and the daily work of coaching.

Currently

The Director of Performance for the Indiana Fever, where I direct daily athlete preparation and the systems behind it: individualized training, workload reporting, strength and readiness testing, and communication across performance, athletic medicine, and coaching.

Since joining in April 2026, I've established centralized training delivery, integrated workload reporting, and structured testing processes, helped recruit a registered dietitian, a strength and conditioning associate, and a sport scientist/data analyst, and authored the department's process manual.

I also helped shape the weight room and performance spaces in the new $78 million Indiana Fever Sports Performance Center.

Athlete development requires more than a program on paper or a dashboard full of numbers. It requires understanding the demands of the sport, the individual athlete, and the environment around them.

My experience spans strength and conditioning program design, force plate testing, athlete monitoring, and performance data systems. I’m interested in how those tools can help practitioners ask better questions, communicate clearly, and make informed training decisions.

Collaboration is central to that work. Strength coaches, sport coaches, athletic trainers, dietitians, researchers, and other specialists each bring a different perspective. The goal is to make those perspectives useful to the athlete.

Organizations bring me in to do three things: keep their best athletes available, build performance systems that survive a full season, and lead departments where medical, performance, and coaching operate as one unit. I have done this at every level of American sport, from college weight rooms to professional basketball.

My operating standard is simple: maximize player availability, performance, and career longevity through an integrated system. If they are not available, nothing else matters. If they are available but not prepared, I failed the standard.

Twenty plus years in high performance sport. Three collegiate programs (Michigan State, Wichita State, Colorado) before stepping into the professional game. Eighty episodes of the Decoding Excellence Show. Hundreds of articles on training, sport science, and leadership. One book in progress.