Dusty May announced a crucial member of his inaugural Michigan men’s basketball staff on Monday, naming Matt Aldred as the program’s strength and conditioning coach.
Aldred spent the past six seasons in the same role at Furman in Greenville, South Carolina. He worked with May in Florida in 2017-18, when May was an assistant coach and Aldred was an assistant strength coach.
May had previously announced his five on-court assistant coaches, none of whom had worked at Michigan previously.
“Matt only bolsters the goal of creating a staff of great teachers and genuine people who can help our players away from the game,” May said in a statement. “I met Matt six years ago and have always been impressed with him. His forward thinking, work at Furman, and academic teachings make him a unique coach who will enhance our strength and conditioning program.”
A strength coach often spends as much time with the players as any other coach, overseeing important offseason workouts -- some of which the other coaches can’t attend due to NCAA rules.
Aldred’s predecessor, Jon Sanderson, is considered one of the better strength coaches in college basketball. Sanderson resigned from Michigan last season after a dispute with then-head coach Juwan Howard. He was hired by Illinois, as a consultant, in March, and has since taken the strength and conditioning coach job at Vanderbilt, MLive learned.
Aldred, a native of Eastbourne, England, graduated from Loughborough University in his home country in 2010 and received master’s degrees from the University of West Florida (exercise science) and the University of Alabama Huntsville (human resource management). At Alabama Huntsville, he was a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach from 2015 to 2017
“It’s an honor to be joining Dusty May’s staff at one of the premier universities in the world,” Aldred said in a statement. “I will give my all to help develop our student-athletes into some of the best in the country. As a staff, we are committed to excellence, and working as one to ensure the Wolverines are a national championship contender.”
Over the past six seasons under head coach Bob Richey, Furman went 75-30 in Southern Conference games and reached the NCAA Tournament in 2023, upsetting 4 seed Virginia as a 13 seed in the first round.
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