Odessa, Texas · Permian Basin

KelvinHuynh

In seasonUTPB football GPS and wellness reporting. Teaching HMPF 3370 this fall.

Portrait of Kelvin Huynh in a UTPB Athletics shirt.
Odessa, TX

Strength and conditioning coach at the University of Texas Permian Basin. I direct baseball and men's basketball, assist with football, and build the systems that tell us whether the program is working.

Load–velocity profile · back squat · illustrative 0.75 m/s · 70% 1RM · strength-speed

Practice

Coach · analyst · builder · teacher
On the floor

Programming for three sports at once

I direct baseball and men's basketball and assist with football at UTPB, and coach at D1 Training Midland. Phase-based programming: concurrent periodization, zone-based sprint work, and loading transitions planned as carefully as the phases themselves.

In the data

Applied sport science that coaches read

GPS load monitoring on STATSports Sonra and Catapult, force plates, velocity-based training, wellness check-ins, and DXA body composition. The output is always a report a head coach can act on before practice, not a spreadsheet.

In the classroom

Adjunct faculty and researcher

Human Performance at UTPB since 2025, teaching athletic administration, coaching strategy, and anatomy. On the department's research team, lead investigator on an IRB study, and supervisor of the intern staff.

In the workshop

Tools I couldn't buy, so I made

3D-printed training equipment I design and print myself, a department athlete management system, and AI tooling with de-identification built in from the first line.

Kelvin with a clipboard on the weight room floor at UTPB.
Weight room floor · UTPB
A young athlete sprinting through a cone drill in an indoor facility while Kelvin coaches.
Speed work · D1 Training Midland

Selected work

3 featured · 4 indexed
Adopted department-wideSupabase · Postgres · Python

An athlete management system built in-house

Commercial platforms are built for bigger budgets and bigger staffs. I built UTPB's own: one database for GPS, force plate, wellness, strength testing, and body composition, with row-level security on every view. It now runs across the athletic department.

350Athletes
40Coaches and staff
11Teams

Read-only guest account

c1-ams.sportsperformance.workers.dev
Username
kelvinhuynh1234@outlook.com
Password
guest123
Nutrition portal
Athlete-facing nutrition tracking
Offseason competition
Team brackets with full placement, scored live
Athletic training integration
Tools that connect sports medicine records and a long-term return-to-play pathway
Hardened by
Storage and security audits
In seasonSonra · Catapult · Python · ReportLab

GPS load reporting for football and women's soccer

A pipeline from raw vendor CSVs to decision-first PDF reports for S&C staff and sport coaches: acute:chronic workload tracking, positional baselines, and year-over-year comparisons. On the soccer side, the Catapult system was running three conflicting velocity band schemes at once, which made every speed number it produced unusable. I audited the configuration, rebuilt the thresholds around female team-sport physiology, and wrote the SOP that keeps them consistent, which put the system back in service. With speed data we could trust, we layered anaerobic speed reserve on top of it to write individual running prescriptions for players who needed in-season top-ups.

Kelvin with a UTPB football player on the sideline during a game.
Game day · UTPB football
IRB protocolDXA · ANCOVA · effect sizes

Body composition research across teams

Preseason DXA scans analyzed across multiple collegiate teams toward publication, with limitations documented up front. The same scans feed two reports: full terminology and raw tables for staff, plain second-person language for athletes.

Metrics
ALMI, BMD, VAT, A/G ratio, Z-scores
Reference
NHANES
Readiness and wellness reports

One-page football reports built on live athlete check-ins, with a test for selection bias on high-compliance days.

Weekly · in season
Baseball in-season VBT analysis

Squat and bench progressions across three in-season phases with velocity targets. Pitcher squat workload ratio held between 0.87 and 1.11 over 12 sessions.

Velocity-based
Sports science assistant app

React app for three sports: tiered player, coach, and S&C reports, readiness flags, and athlete logins locked to their own data.

Pre-release
AI workflows for sport science

Five production Claude skills: GPS session reports, DXA reports, athlete data de-identification, Notion sync, and tracker builds.

Deployed

Workshop

CAD · PLA · Bambu
CAD model of a rectangular pencil cup with two cylindrical pegs on its back, laid out on a 3D printer build plate in slicer software.
In-rack pencil holder. The two pegs seat in the uprights of a squat rack, so the pen for the lift sheet stays at the platform instead of walking off. Modeled in CAD, sliced, and printed in PLA.
CAD model of a Hatfield squat handle: an angled plate with three holes and a long cylindrical grip bar, on a 3D printer build plate.
Hatfield handle. Clamps to the rack so a lifter can squat without loading the shoulder girdle. Three mounting holes set the height.
  • Psoas release toolSoft tissue work, printed to a shape you cannot buy
  • Plantar fascia toolFoot-specific release for court and field athletes
  • In-rack pencil holderIn use on our racks
  • Hatfield handlesDesign done, print pending

Teaching

Adjunct since Sept 2025 · 4 courses
Coaching and teaching are the same job: take something technical and make it usable by the person in front of you.
  • Courses taughtConcepts in Athletic Administration · Instruction and Coaching Strategies · Clinical Anatomy · Human Anatomy
  • Research team, Department of Human PerformanceLead investigator on an IRB-approved study.
  • Intern supervisorA habit that started at Valdosta State, where I wrote the intern curriculum and ran the program for three semesters.

History

Most recent first

Experience

Jun 2026 – now
Performance CoachAthletic performance training at a private facility.
D1 Training Midland
Sep 2025 – now
Adjunct Professor, Human PerformanceConcepts in Athletic Administration, Instruction and Coaching Strategies, Clinical Anatomy, Human Anatomy. Research team member and IRB lead investigator.
University of Texas Permian Basin
May 2025 – now
Assistant Strength and Conditioning CoachDirects baseball and men's basketball; assists with football. Built the department athlete management system.
UTPB Athletics
Jun 2024 – 2025
Strength CoachAssistant strength coach for Valwood Prep football, Georgia 1A state runner-up. Ran youth and high school groups; assisted with professional MLB groups.
Edge Performance, Valdosta, GA
Aug 2023 – May 2025
Graduate Assistant, Strength and ConditioningRight hand to the head strength coach. Built force plate monitoring for every sport with daily reports to football and baseball, a department wellness program, and the athlete performance database. Ran the intern program and helped the staff through a head coach transition. Teams: volleyball, men's basketball, tennis, softball, cheer, dance, football, golf, baseball.
Valdosta State University
2022 – 2023
InternshipsOlympic Sports Performance at Kentucky (softball, gymnastics, baseball). Syracuse Football Athletic Performance. Olympic Sports Performance at Buffalo (swimming, women's basketball, wrestling, track and field). Research intern, Emergency Responder Human Performance Lab.
Kentucky · Syracuse · Buffalo

Education

May 2025
M.Ed., Higher Education Leadership
Valdosta State University
May 2023
B.S., Exercise ScienceMinors in public health and nutrition.
University at Buffalo
Kelvin celebrating a play on the sideline with a helmeted football player.
UTPB football · 2025–
Kelvin kneeling on the field with a UTPB Falcons player after a game.
After the whistle · UTPB
Baseball players jumping in a warm-up drill on a wet morning field while Kelvin coaches.
Warm-up in the rain · Valdosta State
A baseball team spread across a field on a foggy morning during a training session.
Early field session · Valdosta State
Kelvin standing with four Valdosta State men's tennis players in front of a team banner.
Men's tennis · Valdosta State
Kelvin in cap and gown receiving his Valdosta State University diploma.
M.Ed. · Valdosta State · 2025
CSCS · NSCA First Aid · CPR · AED

How I work

Measure early, estimate late. A new phase starts with real performance data, not carry-over numbers from a lift the athlete hasn't done in six weeks.

Thresholds fit the athletes in front of me. Division II benchmarks, drawn from literature that matches the population, not professional or FIFA standards.

Every report has an audience. Staff get the full terminology and the raw tables. Athletes get plain language about their own body.

Privacy is a design constraint. Athlete data is de-identified before it leaves the building, and FERPA shapes the architecture, not just the policy page.

Influences

Where the method comes from

Coaches

  • Al VermeilConcurrent periodization
  • Charlie FrancisSprint training and the high-low model
  • Derek HansenSpeed development and return to play

Programming

  • Triphasic TrainingCal Dietz & Ben Peterson
  • The Tier SystemJoe Kenn
  • New Functional Training for SportsMichael Boyle
  • Science and Application of High-Intensity Interval TrainingPaul Laursen & Martin Buchheit
  • The SystemJohnny Parker, Al Miller & Rob Panariello

People and leadership

  • Chop Wood Carry WaterJoshua Medcalf
  • How to Think Like a Roman EmperorDonald Robertson
  • LegacyJames Kerr
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective PeopleStephen R. Covey
  • The Energy BusJon Gordon
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckMark Manson
  • Above the LineUrban Meyer

Off the clock

Rugbyorganizing college chess tournamentsMidland RockHoundsthe Buffalo Billscookingtravel

Collaboration, speaking, sport science roles Get in touch

kelvinhuynh1234@outlook.com · (315) 466-0137