Matt Aldred is in his sixth season at Furman and was promoted to assistant head coach/director of basketball health and performance in August of 2023. The strength and conditioning coach for men’s basketball for the past five years, Aldred also handles strength and conditioning efforts for the men’s golf program, men’s and women’s cross country, and oversees a strength and conditioning fellow.
Prior to this time at Furman, Aldred, a native of Eastbourne, England, spent one season as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Florida. He assisted with both the Gators’ men’s and women’s basketball programs, while also serving as the head strength coach for Florida’s men’s tennis program during the 2017-18 season.
A 2010 graduate of Loughborough University (England), Aldred received his master’s degree in exercise science from the University of West Florida in 2012 and his master’s in human resource management from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2017.
