CONNOR GORNY, Baltimore's applied sports scientist, enters his first season in the NFL. He spent the 2023 campaign as an assistant strength & conditioning coach and football sport science coordinator for Rice University, following one season as assistant sports performance coach and sport science coordinator for football at the University of Colorado Boulder. Gorny also spent time as an assistant strength & conditioning coach at Utah State University (2019-20) and as the head of athletic performance for Real Salt Lake Academy (2020-21), a direct youth pipeline to the Real Salt Lake and Real Monarchs professional soccer clubs. After graduating from Ball State University with a bachelor's degree in exercise science (2016), Gorny earned his master's degree in exercise physiology from Columbia University in 2019.