Drew Wilson - Football Coach - University of Colorado Athletics

Delaware

Sep 6 (Sat)

1:30 PM

Drew Wilson

Title:
Director of Football Strength & Conditioning
Email:
andrew.c.wilson@colorado.edu

Drew Wilson is in his fourth year as the director of football strength and conditioning at the University of Colorado, officially joining the Buffalo staff on January 4, 2016.

Wilson, 41, coordinates all aspects of training and development of the football team and manages a staff of four full-time assistants dedicated solely to the football program.

He is a veteran who brought with him to CU over a decade of experience working with Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) programs in strength and conditioning. Wilson joined the CU staff from the University of Maryland, where he spent the previous five years (2011-15) as the Terrapins’ director of strength and conditioning.

Wilson had the same responsibilities at Maryland under its then-head coach Randy Edsall, where his duties also included working with the training staff in the design of both prehabilitation and rehabilitation programs for the student-athletes in injury prevention and healing. During his time there, Maryland transitioned from the Atlantic Coast Conference into the Big Ten, and he was credited with improving the Terps interior lines on both sides of the ball. He was also the liaison for the program to the National Football League.

He has attained several certifications with the respected national organizations in his profession. Wilson is a registered strength and conditioning coach (RSCC) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association; a strength and conditioning coach certified (SCCC) through the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association; he is certified as a Level 1 coach by the United States Weightlifting Association; and is also certified in the Functional Movement Screen (FMS).

Prior to his time at Maryland, he had been at the University of Connecticut for five years (2006-10) with Edsall, working primarily with the Huskies’ football program as the assistant strength and conditioning coach. UConn was invited to a bowl each of his last four seasons there. He also worked one year with the women’s lacrosse team.

He has a little familiarity with the Buffaloes, as he was an assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Kansas from January 2005 to May 2006 when both schools were members of the Big 12 Conference. Prior to his stint at KU, he spent five months at Florida State University assisting with football, baseball and the track and field programs.

A 2000 graduate of King’s College, earning his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice & Sociology, he lettered in football. He was a preseason All-American and earned first-team All-Mid-Atlantic Conference honors at inside linebacker as a senior in 1999, when he was a team co-captain. He was on the Dean’s List for five semesters at King’s, which is located in Wilkes Barre, Pa.

He earned his master’s degree in Exercise & Applied Science, with emphasis in Strength and Conditioning, from Springfield (Mass.) College in 2004. He had his first experience coaching while at Springfield, serving as an intern for the 2001-02 academic year. He was then named a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach at the school, a position he would hold until he received his master’s. During that time, he also fulfilled two summer internships, at Maryland (2003) and at Auburn University (2004).

He was born July 11, 1978 in Levittown, Pa., but grew up in nearby Yardley, both in suburbs of Trenton, N.J. He is married to the former Marguerite Widdoes and the couple has a daughter, Makaela, and two sons, Andrew Jr., and Isaac.