Ian Bures was hired as Vanderbilt’s assistant director of football sports performance in January 2024.

Bures joins Vanderbilt’s strength staff following stints at Notre Dame and USC. He served on the strength and conditioning staff at Notre Dame alongside Vanderbilt director of football sport performance Robert Stiner, the same time Commodore head coach Clark Lea was defensive coordinator for the Fighting Irish.

He made two stops at Notre Dame, first from 2018-20 then again from 2022-23. He spent the 2021 season at USC where Stiner served as the director of football strength and conditioning. Bures spent the summer of 2017 on the strength and conditioning staff at Western Michigan while completing a graduate assistantship at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee.

He was a tight end at Plymouth State before also completing a strength and conditioning internship there. He prepped at Woodland Regional High School in Beacon Falls, Connecticut.

Bures earned his undergraduate degree in health and physical education from Plymouth State in 2015 before completing a master’s degree in sport and exercise science at Cumberland in 2017. He is certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association, Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association and American Red Cross.