Philadelphia Eagles
Dustin Woods
Interpersonal Performance Director/Associate Strength and Conditioning Coach
Biography
Dustin Woods enters his third year with the Philadelphia Eagles after originally joining the team as an associate strength and conditioning coach during the 2021 offseason.
Prior to the Eagles, Woods spent three seasons (2018-20) as an assistant strength and conditioning coach with the Los Angeles Rams, including two years under Eagles vice president of player performance and former Rams head strength and conditioning coach Ted Rath.
Before he joined Los Angeles, Woods served two stints (2016-18, 2011-14) as the short track head strength and conditioning coach for the Chinese Olympic Skating Association. During the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, China's Wu Dajing set a new world record and won the men's 500m short-track speed skating event. The win marked the first gold medal for China in men's short track at the Olympics. In total, China speed skaters brought home three medals in 2018. During the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, China won two gold medals, three silver medals and one bronze medal, which marked the most combined medals in men's and women's short track.
From 2014-16, Woods served as a strength and conditioning coach at Xavier, working primarily with the baseball team, women's basketball team and men's and women's soccer teams. At the same time, Woods served as an international and university performance coordinator for Ignition Athletic Performance Group, a consultant for short track speed skating for the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia and an educator and speaker for Lead Sports, where he participated in seminars and workshops for sports teams and organizations around China.
Woods broke into the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengals as a part-time assistant strength and conditioning coach in 2015.