Zach Weatherford is the Director of Sports Science at UC San Diego after serving as a high-performance contractor with the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee. Prior to his USOPC position, he served as director of human performance with the Brooklyn Nets after spending six years as a civilian human performance manager at the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command.
Before his Department of Defense experience, Weatherford held multiple roles with the U.S. Olympic Committee. From 2007-09, Weatherford held the position of sports physiologist for the U.S. Olympic Committee, where he led a multidisciplinary team of science-based human performance professionals that implemented platforms across 17 U.S. Olympic Team programs.
In addition, Weatherford served as the strength and conditioning/video specialist for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard team from 2004-07 and as strength and conditioning coordinator for the U.S. Olympic Committee from 2000-04. Throughout his time with the U.S. Olympic program, Weatherford was on staff for three Olympic Games (2004-Athens, 2006-Torino, 2008-Beijing).
A graduate of the University of Arkansas,Weatherford is married and has four sons.Â
