Charlie Dudley
SAN ANTONIO — UTSA athletics director Lynn Hickey announced Monday that she has hired Charlie Dudley as head strength & conditioning coach. His appointment is effective immediately.
Dudley comes to UTSA from Southeastern Louisiana, where he served as Director for Sport Performance for six months. Prior to his tenure in Hammond, he assisted in the design and implementation of comprehensive strength and training programs for the football team for one year at Kansas.
The Tulsa, Okla., native spent 10 years as the head strength and conditioning coach at Southern Miss, where he oversaw strength & conditioning programs for all 16 sports. He directed, instructed and oversaw one full-time and two graduate assistant coaches and several interns. He also was responsible for the design of Southern Miss’ state-of-the-art strength training facility, a $300,000 project located in the Southern Miss Athletic Center.
During his tenure with the Golden Eagles football team, Dudley was a part of three Conference USA championships (1997, 1999, 2003) and nine bowl teams, including victories in the Liberty, New Orleans and Mobile Bowls. He also helped in the strength and conditioning of the Southern Miss softball program that won four C-USA championships and participated in the College World Series in 1999 and 2000, the 2000-01 C-USA Champion men’s basketball team and the 2003 C-USA Champion baseball squad.
Dudley began his career as a student assistant at Oklahoma State before being promoted to assistant strength and conditioning coach following his graduation in 1994. While in Stillwater, he was part of a program that claimed 29 conference championships and five NCAA titles.
He also worked as an assistant sports performance director with Velocity Sports Performance, a Houston-based center that provided comprehensive strength training and conditioning programs for youth, student-athletes, adults, elite/professional athletes and various sports teams.
Dudley received his bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State in 1994. He is an active member of both the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association and the National Strength and Conditioning Association. He is recognized by both CSCCA and NSCA as a certified strength and conditioning coach and also is a certified member in adult CPR/AED/First Aid by the American Red Cross.
He has worked numerous camps across the country, including the Kansas and Southern Miss Football Camps, the Columbia (Fla.) High School Sports Performance Camps, the Velocity Sports Performance Camps and the camps for football, baseball, basketball and wrestling at Oklahoma State.
Dudley is married to the former Jessica Huerta of Houston. They are the proud parents of a late daughter, Jordan Nevaeh, who would have turned one on April 7.