Dolphins Coach
Name: Dave Puloka
Title: Assistant Strength & Conditioning
College: Holy Cross
NFL: Second Season
Dolphins: First Season


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Dave Puloka was named the Dolphins’ assistant strength and conditioning coach on January 28, 2008. He comes to the club after spending the 2007 season as the assistant strength and conditioning coach with the Atlanta Falcons.

Prior to embarking on his NFL stint, Puloka held the same post at the University of Virginia from 2005-06. He lettered in football and track at Holy Cross College (1997-2000), where he played defensive end and earned his degree in psychology. His career totals in football included 19 sacks. In football, he served as team captain each of his final two years when he was a first-team All-Patriot League performer both times. Following his collegiate career, he went to training camp with Cincinnati as an undrafted college free agent in 2001.

A product of Arlington (Mass.) High School, Puloka first started his coaching career as an assistant track coach at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. and as a strength and conditioning coach in the Austrian Football League. He is a former high school state record holder in the discus. For several years growing up, Puloka lived on the island of Tonga in the South Pacific.


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