Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Athletic Performance Coach
- Email:
- dwood@athletics.ucla.edu
David Wood was named Assistant Athletic Performance Coach at UCLA in September 2012. Coach Wood is currently the UCLA's Womenโs Basketball Athletic Performance Coach and also spent one year (2012-2013) working with the men's and women's golf teams.
Coach Wood is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, in addition to holding a Level 1 Certification through the Titleist Performance Institute. He earned an undergraduate degree in kinesiology at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (SLO) in 2005 and added a Master's of Art, Education degree from the University of Alabama, Birmingham in 2009. Prior to joining the UCLA staff, Coach Wood spent three and a half years as the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Cal Poly, SLO, where he was in charge of 20 Division I intercollegiate teams. Coach Wood previously worked at the University of Alabama, Birmingham as a strength and conditioning graduate assistant while completing his Masterโs. While at UAB, his primary responsibilities were overseeing the strength and conditioning program for the menโs and womenโs tennis teams. He also worked with the development and implementation of programs for football, softball, baseball, menโs and womenโs basketball, menโs and womenโs soccer and volleyball. Coach Wood also helped publish his thesis, โPotentiation of Concentric Force and Acceleration only during the Stretch-Shortening Cycleโ with UAB professors in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research in 2012.
Coach Wood, a Southern California native, spent a year with Velocity Sports Performance, training professional and collegiate athletes with a direct focus on baseball, soccer, football, volleyball and basketball. Wood also spent time as a volunteer intern at various universities, including UCLA and Cal Poly, SLO.
