Brandon Howard - Football Coach - Texas Tech Red Raiders

Brandon Howard

Title:
Associate Strength & Conditioning Coach

Brandon Howard enters his second season at Texas Tech as he serves as an associate strength and conditioning coach for the Red Raider football program.

Howard, who arrived in Lubbock after one season at Ole Miss, brings a strong familiarity with head coach Matt Wells and head strength and conditioning coach Dave Scholz after serving as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Utah State from 2016-17. He also worked as a graduate assistant for the Aggies alongside Scholz during the 2007-08 seasons.

In addition to his time at both Utah State and Ole Miss, Howard was also the Director of Sports Performance at Southeastern Louisiana from 2012-16 where he worked with both the football and baseball programs. Southeastern claimed back-to-back Southland Conference football title and appeared in the FCS playoffs during the 2013-14 seasons, while the baseball program claimed the Southland crown in both 2014 and 2015 en route to making two NCAA Regional trips.

Before that, Howard was the assistant director of sports performance for Georgia Southern, which won the Southern Conference title and appeared in the FCS playoffs in 2011.

Prior to joining the coaching profession, Howard was a four-year letterwinner and starting long snapper at East Carolina from 2001-04. He later served as a strength and conditioning intern with the Pirates from 2005-06 following the completion of his playing career.

Howard earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise physiology from East Carolina in 2005 and then his master’s in health and human movement from Utah State in 2009. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) and a registered strength and conditioning coach (RSCC) through the National Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association. Howard also holds certifications as a functional range movement specialist (FRCms), reflexive performance reset level 1 practicioner (RPR), precision nutrition level 1 coach and running mechanics professional level 1 and 2.

Howard, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, is married to the former Lauren Leggett. The couple resides in Lubbock with their son, Brody and newborn daughter, Lyndon.