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Farthing helps assists with the players training when they are of the basketball court. He helps oversee their work in the weight room, on the track and during plyometrics training. He works with the players extensively in the offseason and training camp periods of the year. The intense sessions help prepare the players for a rigorous season. Farthing has helped each of the Huskie players become stronger, quicker and faster since they started working with him.
Farthing is a graduate student in the College of Kinesiology at the University of Saskatchewan. He is currently in his third year of the Ph.D program in exercise physiology specializing in nervous system adaptations to training. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology degree in 1999, and completed his Master's of Science in Kinesiology in 2002.
He has been involved in training of elite level athlete groups since 1998. These groups range all the way from beginners to professional hockey players.
Farthing spent as three seasons as a quarterback for the Huskies football team from 1995-1997. He was a member of the 1996 National Championship team. He also was a member of the 1998 Saskatoon Hilltops junior football club.
A Saskatoon native, Farthing is a graduate of Holy Cross high school. While there, he was apart of the Crusaders City and Provincial Championship football team in 1994. He also played basketball, helping the team win two City titles (1994, 1995) and a Provincial crown (1994). He graduated in 1995.
Farthing and his wife Danielle have two children, daughter Grace (2 years) and son Jude (10 months). In his limited spare time, he likes to have dinner out with his wife, participate in anything athletic and play the guitar.
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