Jerry Schmidt - Director of Sports Enhancement and Strength and Conditioning - Football Coaches

Jerry Schmidt

Title:
Director of Sports Enhancement and Strength and Conditioning

Coaching History
2022-Present   Oklahoma, Director of Sports Enhancement
   and Strength and Conditioning
2018-21   Texas A&M, Director of Athletic Performance
1999-2017   Oklahoma, Director of Sports Enhancement
1995-99   Florida, Coordinator
1989-95   Notre Dame, Coordinator
1988-89   Oklahoma State, Director
1987-88   Notre Dame, Assistant

Coaching Notes and Accomplishments
• Returned to Oklahoma in December 2021 as director of sports performance and strength and conditioning following a four-year stint at Texas A&M as director of athletic performance.

• Hired in 1999 by Bob Stoops as OU's director of sports performance and served in that capacity through the 2017 season, helping the Sooners to the 2000 national title, four national championship game appearances, 11 Big 12 championships and a 202-50 (.802) record (average of 10.6 wins per season). Schmidt worked alongside current OU head coach Brent Venables, who served as Sooners' linebackers coach and as co- and defensive coordinator from 1999 through 2011.

• Has worked with seven Heisman Trophy winners: Kyler Murray (Oklahoma), Baker Mayfield (Oklahoma), Sam Bradford (Oklahoma), Jason White (Oklahoma), Danny Wuerffel (Florida), Barry Sanders (Oklahoma State) and Tim Brown (Notre Dame). He has also trained 44 first-round NFL Draft selections, 67 first-team All-Americans and dozens of national award winners.

• Has coached with teams that played in six national championship games as well as two College Football Playoff semifinals, and has national title rings from OU (2000) and Florida (1996).

• Has coached in 36 bowl games, including 25 that are currently a New Year's Six bowl (Cotton, Fiesta, Orange, Peach, Rose and Sugar) or the BCS National Championship Game (2008 season).

• Prior to his time at Oklahoma, coached four seasons on Steve Spurrier's Florida staff (1995-98) and helped the Gators win a national title, as well as the 1995 and '96 SEC championships.

• Served two coaching stints at Notre Dame, getting his start on Lou Holtz's staff in 1987 as an assistant and returning to South Bend as the strength and conditioning coordinator in 1989 after a year at Oklahoma State as director. He was named the 1991 Collegiate Strength Coach of the Year by USA Fitness.

• Schmidt graduated from Nebraska in 1986 and served as a student on the Nebraska staff under head coach Tom Osborne and strength and conditioning coach Boyd Epley.