Derek Owings - Football Coach - Texas Tech Red Raiders

Derek Owings

Title:
Associate Strength & Conditioning Coach

Derek Owings heads into his second season as an associate strength and conditioning coach on the Texas Tech football staff where he brings significant experience working alongside head coach Matt Wells and head strength and conditioning coach Dave Scholz.

Owings, who was a graduate assistant under Scholz at Utah State from 2016-17, arrived in Lubbock after serving as the assistant director of sports performance at UCF during the 2018 campaign where he coordinated all GPS data collection using Catapult.

Owings joined the coaching profession following a successful playing career at Mercer where he lettered as a tight end and was a two-time Academic All-SoCon selection. He was an undergraduate student intern in the sports performance department up until his graduation from Mercer in 2016.

In addition to his time at Mercer, Owings also served internships with Barwis Methods in 2014 as well as several Olympic sports at the University of Michigan in 2015. He was hired at Utah State shortly after where he earned his master’s degree in 2018.

Owings holds the following certifications: CSCS-NSCA, USAW-Level 1, Running Mechanices Professional Level 1 and 2, Metabolic Analytics Practitioner, FRCms, Precision Nutrition Level 1, Body Type Nutrition as well as CPR and AED - ARC.