Exercise Science Internships

As an Exercise Science major, you will have extensive opportunities for internships because of the growth within the health and fitness field. Facilities and their potential educational opportunities include:

  • Achieve Optimal Performance, Bellevue, Neb.: PT and sport performance
  • Avera/McKenna Fitness Center: individual training and group exercise in a large
  • facility environment
  • Avera Sports Institute: sport performance training for athletes of all ages
  • Baylor University: strength and conditioning
  • Children's Care Hospital & School: PT, OT, and adapted aquaticsCORE Orthopedic: Physician Assistant shadowing
  • Crossfit Sioux Falls: advanced performance training
  • Dow Rummel Village: group exercise (aquatic and land) for older adults of all abilities
  • Family Wellness: individual training and group exercise in a large facility environment
  • Fitness 19: individual training and group exercise
  • Great Plains Physical Therapy: PT
  • National Institute for Athletic Health and Performance-Sanford: research and work with elite athletes in areas such as hydration/fluid replacement, heat tolerance, concussions, and nutrition
  • Northwestern State University: strength and conditioning
  • Notre Dame: strength and conditioning
  • Orthopedic Institute: PT, OT, and athletic training
  • Sanford Pediatric Bone Clinic: Physician Assistant shadowing
  • Sanford POWER Program: sport performance training for athletes of all ages
  • Sanford USD Medical Center: PT, OT
  • Sanford Wellness Center: individual training and group exercise in a large facility environment
  • Sioux Falls School District: OT and work with district initiative to reduce childhood obesity and physical inactivity
  • Texas Christian University: strength and conditioning
  • University of Mississippi (Ole Miss): strength and conditioning
  • University of Washington: strength and conditioning
  • U.S. Olympic Training Center, Colorado Springs, Colo.: work with elite athletes
  • Velocity Sports Performance, Naples, Fla.: sport performance training for athletes
  • X Fitness: individual training and group exercise
  • YMCA: individual training and group exercise in a large facility environment