Completed Event: Football versus #17 Kansas State on August 23, 2025 , Win , 24, to, 21
Final
Football
24
#17 Kansas State
21
Iowa State University Athletics
Football
Oyster, Clayton
Clayton Oyster
- Title:
- Director of Strength and Conditioning
- Email:
- coyster@iastate.edu
- Phone:
- 4-5483
Clayton Oyster, who has spent the last six seasons as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Iowa State, was promoted to Director of Strength and Conditioning for the Iowa State football program in February of 2015.
Oyster joined the Iowa State football program as an assistant strength and conditioning coach in 2009, helping the Cyclones improve dramatically in the weight room in his tenure in Ames. Oyster has been a part of three bowl teams with the Cyclones, assisting in implementing ISU’s year-round strength and conditioning program which is regarded as one of the nation’s best.
A native of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, Oyster has worked with seven Cyclones who have gone onto play in the NFL: Collin Franklin, David Sims, Kelechi Osemele, Leonard Johnson, Jake Knott, A.J. Klein and Jeremiah George.
Oyster, who now has the resources of one of the nation’s best training facilities in the state-of-the-art Bergstrom Football Complex, came to Iowa State after assisting at Rice from 2006-09.
Oyster played a major role in developing the strength and conditioning program for the Owls, implementing workouts for baseball and football. He was on the staff of three Rice teams that qualified for the College World Series and the Owl football team went to a pair of bowl games.
He also worked with Owls’ golf, volleyball and women’s basketball teams.
A 2002 graduate of Otterbein (Ohio) College, Oyster began his coaching career at Gahanna High School in Columbus, Ohio. He also worked as a Co-Director of Strength and Conditioning for Performance One Athletic Development in Columbus and as a Sports Performance Coach for Velocity Sports Performance in Houston.
He is a certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and by USA Weightlifting as a Level 1 Club Coach (USAW).
Oyster earned a master’s degree in kinesiology at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville in 2005.
Oyster joined the Iowa State football program as an assistant strength and conditioning coach in 2009, helping the Cyclones improve dramatically in the weight room in his tenure in Ames. Oyster has been a part of three bowl teams with the Cyclones, assisting in implementing ISU’s year-round strength and conditioning program which is regarded as one of the nation’s best.
A native of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, Oyster has worked with seven Cyclones who have gone onto play in the NFL: Collin Franklin, David Sims, Kelechi Osemele, Leonard Johnson, Jake Knott, A.J. Klein and Jeremiah George.
Oyster, who now has the resources of one of the nation’s best training facilities in the state-of-the-art Bergstrom Football Complex, came to Iowa State after assisting at Rice from 2006-09.
Oyster played a major role in developing the strength and conditioning program for the Owls, implementing workouts for baseball and football. He was on the staff of three Rice teams that qualified for the College World Series and the Owl football team went to a pair of bowl games.
He also worked with Owls’ golf, volleyball and women’s basketball teams.
A 2002 graduate of Otterbein (Ohio) College, Oyster began his coaching career at Gahanna High School in Columbus, Ohio. He also worked as a Co-Director of Strength and Conditioning for Performance One Athletic Development in Columbus and as a Sports Performance Coach for Velocity Sports Performance in Houston.
He is a certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and by USA Weightlifting as a Level 1 Club Coach (USAW).
Oyster earned a master’s degree in kinesiology at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville in 2005.
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