Associate Professor
University of Houston - Clear Lake
William E. Amonette, PhD, CSCS is an Associate Professor and the Executive Director of the Health and Human Performance Institute at the University of Houston – Clear Lake. Prior to his academic career, Amonette served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Chinese national basketball team at the Beijing Olympic Training Center. He was also previously employed as the assistant strength and conditioning coach and rehabilitation coordinator for the NBA’s Houston Rockets, and an astronaut strength, conditioning, and rehabilitation specialist as well as an exercise physiologist and an integrated testing specialist for the Countermeasures and Evaluation and Validation Project at NASA – Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.