Assistant Coach Joshua Grim arrived at Virginia State University in 2023 as an integrated performance specialist and Assistant Men's Golf Coach. He will be in charge of, and is nationally certified in, mental performance, science-based functional breathing, and heart rate variability biofeedback.
In his first season as an assistant golf coach, Grim helped Juan Ruiz-Patino earn all-conference honors, which included the sophomore's first collegiate under-par performance on day one of the CIAA Golf Championship. At the conference championship, Virginia State placed fourth.
Before accepting his new role at VSU, he served as the State Director of the Virginia chapter of Fairways for Warriors. FFW is a nationally recognized non-profit that helps combat-wounded veterans heal using golf as a means of therapy. As a combat-wounded veteran himself, this was very close to his heart.
While leading the organization in Virginia, Coach Grim also created the national mental performance program for FFW. Upon leaving he became certified in science-based functional breathing, where he has become a certified instructor with Oxygen Advantage, one of the worlds leading organizations on the study and implementation of how functional breathing can be used to help with athletic performance optimization. It is also widely used to help physiologically maximize the mind/body working relationship.
Coach Grim was a three-year letterman in baseball at Georgetown high school, in Georgetown, South Carolina, where he played first base. His sophomore year the Bulldogs finished second in the state. He also played as a defenseman on the soccer team that won the regional championship his senior year.
After high school, he went on to join the Army, as an infantryman, with the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, out of Ft Wainwright Alaska. During 2005-2006, he was deployed and fought in Mosul and Baghdad, Iraq. During this time his brigade was extended by the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. After the fighting was over, the brigade was awarded the Valorous Unit Award, the second-highest unit award for valor in the military.
