The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Men's Basketball
- Title:
- Head Coach, Basketball Strength & Conditioning
Pronunciation: WHO-dee
2nd season at Texas
Andrea Hudy enters her second season as Head Coach, Basketball Strength and Conditioning at The University of Texas. In her role at Texas, Hudy oversees the strength and conditioning program for both the Men’s and Women’s Basketball programs. She serves as the primary sport performance coach for the Men’s Basketball team.
Despite a rash of injuries during the final third of the year that sidelined as many as five rotation players for extended action, the Longhorns registered a 19-12 record and tied for third place in the Big 12 Conference (9-9 mark) during the 2019-20 season. UT was the No. 4 seed in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship, but the league’s postseason tourney and all postseason college basketball was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Texas rallied to produce a five-game win streak in Big 12 Conference play near the end of the regular season. This marked the first time UT had won five-consecutive league games since the Longhorns won seven-straight Big 12 games in 2013-14. Three of the victories came in true road games and four of the wins were by double-digit margins, including a 67-57 victory vs. No. 20/19 West Virginia and a 68-58 win at No. 22/21 Texas Tech.
Four Texas players earned spots on the 2019-20 Phillips 66 All-Big 12 Award teams. Matt Coleman III earned third-team honors, while Andrew Jones, Courtney Ramey and Jericho Sims each garnered honorable mention accolades.
Before coming to Texas, Hudy served as the Assistant Athletics Director for Sport Performance at the University of Kansas and handled the strength and conditioning responsibilities for the Kansas men’s basketball team for 15 years. During her time in Lawrence, the Jayhawks posted a 449-97 (.822) record and advanced to 15-straight NCAA Tournaments. Kansas won one national championship (2008), reached the Final Four three times and qualified for the Sweet 16 nine times during Hudy’s 15 seasons.
The Jayhawks also claimed 14 regular-season Big 12 Conference titles and eight league tournament championships in this span. Hudy developed 11 NBA Lottery selections and 24 NBA Draft picks in her 15 seasons at Kansas, including Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid, the No. 1 and No. 3 overall selections in the 2014 NBA Draft.
In 2017, the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) honored Hudy with the Impact Award, given to an individual whose career has greatly contributed to the advancement of the national or international strength and conditioning or fitness industries. In the summer of 2014, her book, Power Positions, was published. In January 2013, she was named the National College Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year by the NSCA for her dedication to improving athletic performance with safe and effective science-based programs.
Hudy helped Kansas student-athletes stay on the cutting edge of performance training. In the summer of 2012, Kansas became a signature school for the EliteForm training system, which integrates technology into workout sessions. Under her guidance, the Jayhawks were the first program to use the SpartaTrac™ system to optimize players’ individual strength programs to improve performance and decrease chance of injury.
In 2009, Hudy started the Midwest Sports Performance Conference, an annual symposium which brings in many prominent figures in the strength and conditioning industry to the University of Kansas campus. The conference focuses not only on the importance of interaction between coach and athlete, but also on the complexities of programming and training throughout a season or seasons at all levels.
Prior to her time at Kansas, Hudy spent nine-plus years at the University of Connecticut, where she worked with the Huskies’ NCAA Champion men’s and women’s basketball programs. Hudy was a part of eight national championship teams while at UConn, including two men’s basketball, five women’s basketball and one men’s soccer.
In her 26 seasons of collegiate strength and conditioning coaching, Hudy has worked with 49 former student-athletes who have gone on to play in the NBA.
A native of Huntingdon, Pa., Hudy was a four-year letterwinner in volleyball at the University of Maryland (1990-93). During her freshman season, she was a member of the 1990 Atlantic Coast Conference championship team.
Hudy graduated from Maryland in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology. She earned a Master of Arts degree in sport biomechanics from the University of Connecticut in 1999 and completed her MBA from the University of Kansas in May 2019. Hudy is a certified strength and conditioning specialist by the NSCA and a USAW Level I Coach.
