Dan Riley currently serves as the strength and conditioning educator for the Memorial Hermann Sports Medicine Institute. Riley is a retired strength and conditioning coach having spent 27 of those years in the National Football League (19 with the Washington Redskins and eight with the Houston Texans). Prior to his stint with the Redskins, Riley spent five years as the strength coach at Penn State after serving four years as the strength coach at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

While with the Redskins, Riley served as an integral part of three Super Bowl championships and four NFC championships. While at Penn State, the Lions played for the national championship in the Sugar Bowl.

Riley has authored four books on strength training. In addition, he wrote a physical fitness column for the Washington Post and also wrote the “Power Line,” a monthly fitness column for Coach and Athletic Director magazine. Riley also co-hosted a local radio fitness show for almost three years with Roberta Anding, RD.

A native of Manchester, N.H., Riley graduated from Keene State College with an undergraduate degree in Physical Education. He has a master’s degree in Physical Education from Indiana University. He is also certified by the American College of Sports Medicine.

Riley and his wife have two sons, Marty who works for Microsoft and lives in Redmond, Wash., and T who lives in Houston and is the head baseball coach and assistant athletic director at St. John’s School.

Roberta Anding joined the Houston Texans in 2001 as the team’s first sports dietitian. In addition to being the team’s registered dietitian, Roberta is the sports dietitian at Memorial Hermann Sports Medicine Institute. She also teaches a course in the Department of Kinesiology at Rice University and works with Rice athletes.

Roberta has 29 years of experience as a teacher, educator and media representative. She is currently an American Dietetic Association national media spokesperson and has received numerous teaching awards. Prior to joining Baylor in 1999, she received the John P. McGovern Award for outstanding teacher of the year three times and was nominated seven times while with the University of Texas School of Nursing. Roberta was recognized by the Texas Dietetic Association for her media work in 2006. Most recently, Roberta was honored by the Texas Dietetic Association as the 2008 Distinguished Dietitian of the Year for the state of Texas.

Roberta has 22 scientific and consumer publications to her credit focusing on sports, supplements, diabetes and eating disorders. Additionally, she is a contributor to the Fitness Corner authored by Dan Riley.

A native of Racine, Wisc., Anding graduated from Louisiana State University with her undergraduate and graduate degrees in nutrition. Roberta and her husband, Bob, have three children —Keith, a forensic chemist, Katie, a former basketball and track standout at Emory University and currently a nutrition student at Georgia State, and Kevin, a 400-meter track athlete at the University of Virginia.