MSCC Class of 2016

Dr. Tredell Dorsey

Assistant Athletic Director of Sports Performance

Dr. Tredell Dorsey has 22 years of experience in the field, with 16 years on the collegiate level. Currently the Assistant Athletic Director of Sports Performance at Morgan State University. Dorsey has had stops at the University of Central Florida, Cleveland State University, Alabama State University, Georgia Southern University, Delaware State University, Georgia State University and Georgia Tech.

Prior to his post at Georgia Southern, Dorsey served as the Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning at the University of Central Florida, where he worked directly with the 2014 Fiesta Bowl Champions. Two out of 3 years Dorsey coached at UCF, the Knights were the champions in the American Athletics Conference.

In addition to making meaningful impacts on football teams, Dorsey has served as the strength and conditioning coach for championship golf, basketball and track teams. He believes in total athlete development. At Alabama State University he made a significant mark on the athletic department by effectively using strength and conditioning to reduce injuries which resulted in insurance costs dropping by more than 40 percent. In addition to successfully training football, men's basketball, and track athletes-all of which won conference titles-Dorsey designed two strength and conditioning facilities. One facility opened fall 2010; the other opened in spring 2011.

As the Assistant Athletic Director for Strength and Conditioning at Delaware State University, Tredell was responsible for overseeing the operations, maintenance and care of the 17,000 square foot training facility while ensuring that each of the 450 student-athletes had an opportunity to train vigorously and systematically - a feat that had never been accomplished at the University. As a member of the Senior Athletics Staff, Dr. Dorsey assisted in the development of comprehensive life skills training workshops as well as implemented the Delaware State University Voter Registration Initiative. VOTE! DSU successfully registered all age-eligible student athletes and worked with other departments to register members of the student body.

Beyond having solid experience in the collegiate environment, Dorsey served as the Director of Player Development at Velocity Sports Performance. At Velocity, Dorsey trained elite and professional athletes and was responsible for supervising a staff of three; marketing the facility; and appearing on the local news station monthly to promote fitness. Dorsey secured and headed up the performance training contract for the Memphis Xplorers Arena II Football team and several of the NFL combine athletes he trained while at Velocity are currently playing professionally in the United States and abroad.

As a sought after expert in his field, Dr/Dorsey is an accomplished fitness/performance writer and is called upon several times a year to speak at various athletic performance events. He also served as the technical director for the 2004 Nike Grid Iron marketing campaign where he worked with Michael Vick, Brian Urlacher, LaDainian Tomlinson, and Larry Fitzgerald.

Dorsey is certified by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association, USA Weightlifting, USA Track & Field, and several other performance education organizations.

Tredell resides in Statesboro, Georgia with his wife Makasha and two sons, Justin and Jaden. In his spare time he blogs at www.TredellDorsey.com, where he discusses Life and Sports Performance.