Georgia has filled one of two vacancies on it's strength and conditioning staff. Dawgs247 has learned that former North Carolina strength staffer Maurice Sims is set to join Scott Sinclair's staff in the same role.

Two spots came open for UGA earlier this month when Jamil Walker left to become the head strength coach under Sam Pittman at Arkansas. Walker took veteran strength and conditioning coach Ed Ellis with him. Kirby Smart hired Ed Ellis to join UGA's strength staff on his initial staff in 2016. Ellis served as the No. 2 in charge behind UGA head strength coach Scott Sinclair.

Walker spent three years at UGA after joining Sinclair and company as an assistant prior to the 2017 season. Prior to that, Walker was an assistant strength coach at Wisconsin where he played as a running back.

Sims spent just one year at North Carolina after joining the staff from Army. He was a cadet for two seasons according to his official UNC bio. That full bio can be found below.

Prior to his time at Army, Sims served as the head sports performance coach at Stack Sports Performance and Therapy in Atlanta (2016-17). He performed assessments on athletes to develop training programs and implemented them. Sims also graded and critiqued athletes during their performance. Sims spent 2014-15 season as a football assistant strength and conditioning coach at Indiana. He was the head of the operations for the development training program and assisted with the development and implementation of sport specific training programs. Before Indiana, Sims spent two seasons at North Carolina A&T (2012-14) as an associate director of strength and conditioning. He worked with the basketball, baseball, softball and track and field programs, and assisted with football. Sims also worked at Bethune-Cookman from 2010-12 under mentor Medgar Harrison and worked with football, basketball, tennis and track and field. Sims started his coaching career as a football strength intern at the University of Tennessee under the guidance of head strength and conditioning coach Ron McKeefery in 2010. A Knoxville, Tenn. native, Sims earned his bachelor's degree in exercise science from Tennessee-Chattanooga and his master’s degree in transformative leadership from Bethune-Cookman. He is certified through the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (SCCC) and National Strength and Conditioning Association (CSCS). Sims was an all-conference defensive back at Concord University prior to transferring to Tennessee-Chattanooga.

UGA still has one more opening to fill on a strength staff that includes Sinclair, Sims, Rodney Prince, and Ben Sowders. Smart hasn't been shy about his satisfaction with his strength staff since he arrived at Georgia.

“I think the Scott we’ve got is the biggest blessing and asset to our program,” Smart said prior to the National Championship game in 2017. “He’s be kind of the unknown secret to the fact that we’ve been very fortunate when you look at injuries and how well you’ve been able to survive injuries and not have injuries. We haven’t had many injuries. I think that’s a credit to the strength and conditioning staff…”