The 2018-19 academic year will be Greg Carbin's fifth as director of sports performance at Missouri Western. Carbin was previously a graduate assistant in strength and conditioning at MWSU. He develops the student-ahtletes' workouts, and also conducts the workouts during the school year and has built the Griffon Strength and Conditioning program from the ground up.
Greg returned to MWSU after working at North Kansas City High School as a football and track coach.
At MWSU he was a four-year letter winner for the Griffon football team and helped guide the Griffons to their first ever NCAA Playoff appearance in 2006.
During his senior season, he was named second team All-MIAA, while starting all 12 games and collecting 29 tackles, with 21 being solo. Carbin had one tackles for a loss, one interception, 7 pass break-ups, 8 passes defended and one blocked kick. He also returned 11 kickoffs for 177 yards (16.1 ypr).
In 2005, Carbin played in 12 games, starting most of them at the left cornerback position. He recorded 31 tackles, 25 of them solo, with 2 interceptions. Carbin recorded a season-high, seven tackles in the MWSU win over Concordia in the 2005 Mineral Water Bowl. Carbin also had six tackles vs. St. Cloud State and four tackles vs. Chadron State. Carbin scored a lone TD on a 66-yard fumble recovery and run vs. Central Oklahoma. One of the most dangerous return men in the MIAA, Carbin returned seven kickoffs for 206 yards and a long of 59-yards vs. Northwest Missouri State. For his efforts his junior season he was named First Team All-MIAA.
For his career, Carbin had 88 solo tackles and 128 total tackles over his four seasons. Carbin recorded five interceptions and has 35 kickoff returns for 794 yards and a 22.6 yards per return average.
Carbin came to MWSU from Jefferson City High School in Jefferson City, Missouri. He was a member of the MWSU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll and the MIAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll, as well as a member of the MWSU Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
Carbin graduated with a bachelor's degree in graphic arts in the spring of 2007 at Missouri Western and earned his master's in sports and fitness management at MWSU in 2016.
He is married to current Griffon volleyball coach Marian Carbin and reside in St. Joseph with their twin boy and girl.
