Colin Kenyon is in his second season as an assistant strength coach for the Fighting Illini in 2021. Kenyon came to Champaign from Army West Point, where he spent the 2019 and 2020 seasons on Army’s strength and conditioning staff.

Kenyon is a 2019 graduate of Merrimack College, where he played defensive line and earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise science. He interned at Army during the summers of 2018 and 2019 and also interned at Merrimack as a junior and senior, and Mike Boyle Strength in the summer of 2017.

During his time at Merrimack as an intern, Kenyon assisted coaches with all aspects of training and rehabilitation from injury and surgery with men's and women's lacrosse, field hockey, men's and women's hockey, men's and women's soccer as well as cross country and track and field.

Kenyon is a native of Duanesburg, N.Y.