Track and field usually feels like
an individual sport. Yes, we try to win championships as a collective group, but it
is our individual performances that drive that success. Coach Dudley has an
uncanny ability to make his athletes feel like it’s a team sport first. An
ability to bring the bigger picture into perspective and drive us to support
one another to victory.
Not only is
Coach Dudley an accomplished athlete himself, qualifying for the U.S.
Championships in 8 consecutive years (2001-2008), including 2 Olympic Trials,
but he’s also an academic at heart. Dudley
graduated summa cum laude in mechanical engineering with a minor in mathematics
from the Honors College of Washington State in 2003. He also earned a master's
degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in biomechanics and motor control from
Illinois.
Dudley developed
a “Money Ball” recruiting metric which included factors of typical expected
improvement values, the institutions financial landscape, and conference
strengths and weaknesses to identify target recruiting zones and lay out a
road-map to compete for a Conference Championship. While at HPU, he could forecast
our team’s outcomes and would challenge us all to prove his predictions wrong. The
best on the team weren’t the only ones who mattered, every single point
mattered equally. First or eighth, to Coach Dudley, you mattered.
His predictions and precise programming led HPU to 11 individual NCAA first round
appearances, 11 individual conference championships, and 47 school records.
Dudley has a wide range of skills and not only coaches his own specialty in
hurdling, but at HPU he also oversaw the vaulters, high jumpers, throws and
multi event athletes.
Dudley is a
once in a lifetime type of coach and will be DomTech’s adviser looking into the
technical side of the sport. Look for his first post this coming Friday!
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