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Jordan Diaz
- Title:
- Head Strength and Conditioning Coach
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Jordan Diaz was hired as the head strength and conditioning coach for UNT football in December of 2025.
Diaz joins the Mean Green after spending the last three seasons as director of speed and associate director of football performance at Georgia Tech.
In three seasons with the Yellowjackets, Diaz helped Georgia Tech appear in three consecutive bowl games for the first time since 2012-14. Across three seasons, Diaz helped the Yellowjackets garner 27 All-Conference honorees including five First Team selections.
In 2025, Georgia Tech finished the season with nine wins, the most for the program since 2016. The Yellowjackets posted the No. 13 total offense in FBS, led by QB Haynes King who finished the season ranked 10th in the Heisman Trophy voting.
The 2024 season saw GT post seven wins and earn a berth to the Birmingham Bowl and win a pair of games against Top 10 opponents, including a 28-23 victory over No. 4 Miami.
In Diaz’ first season in 2023, the Yellowjackets earned a bowl berth and knocked off UCF in the Gasparilla Bowl for the program’s first bowl victory since 2016.
Diaz joined Georgia Tech in 2023 after two seasons at USF, where he served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach in 2021 and 2022. With USF, his primary duties included overseeing the speed, agility and conditioning aspects of the Bulls’ football program and the use and analysis of the Catapult Sports monitoring system.
Prior to his time at USF, Diaz three seasons at Arizona State, where he began as an assistant coach for football performance in 2018 and 2019 before being promoted to assistant head coach for football performance in 2020. At ASU, he worked with both front-seven and skill athletes, while also monitoring the football weight room nutrition and fueling station.
His experience also includes two years as a personal trainer in his native New Jersey (2016-18) and two years as an intern and graduate assistant in the strength and conditioning program at his alma mater, South Carolina.
Diaz was a fullback and key special teams contributor at South Carolina from 2012-14. He joined the Gamecocks as a walk-on in 2012, earned his first letter in 2013 and was awarded with a scholarship prior to his senior season in 2014. He graduated cum laude from South Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science in 2014 and earned a master’s degree in human performance and nutrition with summa cum laude honors from Logan University in 2017.
COACHING HISTORY
2018-19: Arizona State, assistant coach for football performance
2020: Arizona State, assistant head coach for football performance
2021-22: USF, assistant strength and conditioning coach
2023-25: Georgia Tech, director of speed and associate director of football performance
2026-: UNT, head strength and conditioning coach
Diaz joins the Mean Green after spending the last three seasons as director of speed and associate director of football performance at Georgia Tech.
In three seasons with the Yellowjackets, Diaz helped Georgia Tech appear in three consecutive bowl games for the first time since 2012-14. Across three seasons, Diaz helped the Yellowjackets garner 27 All-Conference honorees including five First Team selections.
In 2025, Georgia Tech finished the season with nine wins, the most for the program since 2016. The Yellowjackets posted the No. 13 total offense in FBS, led by QB Haynes King who finished the season ranked 10th in the Heisman Trophy voting.
The 2024 season saw GT post seven wins and earn a berth to the Birmingham Bowl and win a pair of games against Top 10 opponents, including a 28-23 victory over No. 4 Miami.
In Diaz’ first season in 2023, the Yellowjackets earned a bowl berth and knocked off UCF in the Gasparilla Bowl for the program’s first bowl victory since 2016.
Diaz joined Georgia Tech in 2023 after two seasons at USF, where he served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach in 2021 and 2022. With USF, his primary duties included overseeing the speed, agility and conditioning aspects of the Bulls’ football program and the use and analysis of the Catapult Sports monitoring system.
Prior to his time at USF, Diaz three seasons at Arizona State, where he began as an assistant coach for football performance in 2018 and 2019 before being promoted to assistant head coach for football performance in 2020. At ASU, he worked with both front-seven and skill athletes, while also monitoring the football weight room nutrition and fueling station.
His experience also includes two years as a personal trainer in his native New Jersey (2016-18) and two years as an intern and graduate assistant in the strength and conditioning program at his alma mater, South Carolina.
Diaz was a fullback and key special teams contributor at South Carolina from 2012-14. He joined the Gamecocks as a walk-on in 2012, earned his first letter in 2013 and was awarded with a scholarship prior to his senior season in 2014. He graduated cum laude from South Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science in 2014 and earned a master’s degree in human performance and nutrition with summa cum laude honors from Logan University in 2017.
COACHING HISTORY
2018-19: Arizona State, assistant coach for football performance
2020: Arizona State, assistant head coach for football performance
2021-22: USF, assistant strength and conditioning coach
2023-25: Georgia Tech, director of speed and associate director of football performance
2026-: UNT, head strength and conditioning coach
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