125. Finding a Job that Shares Your Values with UConn Women’s Basketball Sports Performance Director Andrea Hudy

Finding a Job that Shares Your Values with UConn Women’s Basketball Sports Performance Director Andrea Hudy

Introducing Andrea Hudy

Today I’m talking UConn Director of Sports Performance for Women’s Basketball Andrea Hudy about finding a job that shares your values.

Her Career Journey

Andrea earned her BS in kinesiology from the University of Maryland where she also played volleyball. She went on to earn a masters in sport biomechanics from UConn. She became the assistant director of sport performance at Kansas and picked up an MBA in the process to ensure she had the skills she needed to work with data on a large scale. Andrea is currently the director of sports performance for women’s basketball at UConn.

Finding a Job that Shares Your Values

Andrea approaches her work from the perspective of an injured athlete because used to be on. Her guiding values became injury prevention and keeping her athletes healthy and able to play. She’s sought out educational opportunities, through her MBA and now her PhD, to make sure that she has the data skills and access to cutting-edge research to live out her mission. With UConn women’s basketball, she’s found an environment that celebrates the same values as her and gives her the opportunity to apply her skills.

Inside this episode:

  • Andrea worked with multiple teams as a graduate assistant coach. She had to learn how to adapt constantly, which set the stage for her personalized approach to keeping her athletes strong and healthy. 
  • Andrea enjoys working in women’s sports because of the opportunities to form relationships with her athletes as she helps them learn new ways to stay in the game.
  • She’s currently working towards her PhD at UConn as a way to formalize the work she’s doing and to seek out mentorship from experts in the field. 
  • Andrea talks about the work she’s doing to combat the increased injury rates she’s seen in the last few years. She hopes to undo some of the repetition that comes with early specialization with personalized programs for each athlete.
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