Vini Daley started as an athletic performance intern in January 2024. After a year, Daley advanced to an apprentice role, and his responsibilities shifted to the golf team. This year, Daley is working with the men's soccer team.
Before his career in performance training, he had a distinguished rugby career in national and international invitational tournaments, starting on two men's Division I National Championship teams and finishing as an academy player in the MLR.
Daley earned a bachelor's in Psychology with a minor in rehabilitation and disabilities from Springfield College and a master's in kinesiology, with a concentration in clinical exercise physiology, from Point Loma Nazarene University. He also holds his CSCS and USAW-L1 certifications and is working toward ACSM's CEP.
Daley's career began in the college weight room and later grew into eight years as a personal trainer and group fitness instructor in downtown Boston. He shifted into strength and conditioning, helped build an S&C facility outside Boston, and spent six years working with high school and college athletes. During that time, the facility also hosted the New England Freejacks and supported several athletes who went on to make the USA Rugby Women's National Team.
After moving to San Diego in late 2022, he served as general manager of a personal training studio before joining UC San Diego Recreation in 2023, where he taught move right classes, provided personal training services, mentored trainers, and coached post-rehab clients through the WorkStrong program at the Rehabilitation Services clinic within the Koman Outpatient Pavilion.
