Penn State football has promoted Chuck Losey to the Assistant Director of Performance Enhancement, replacing Dwight Galt III who recently retired from the same position after a long career at Penn State, Vanderbilt and Maryland.
Losey joined the Penn State staff as assistant director of performance enhancement in January 2014, following coach James Franklin from Vanderbilt to State College and was promoted to associate director in 2017.
“For the past 11 years, I’ve had a clear vision of what I wanted the next step to be in my coaching career,” Losey said in a press release. “Working alongside James Franklin and Dwight Galt has afforded me the opportunity to help cultivate my craft in order to be more than prepared to take on this new role. I am grateful to continue the relationships built with the student-athletes, staff and Penn State community. Let’s get to work!”
Prior to his move to State College, Losey spent three years serving in the same role at Vanderbilt under Galt. Losey also was Tennessee State University’s director of speed, strength and conditioning for six years from 2004-10. During his time at TSU, Losey managed all aspects of program design and implementation for 11 men’s and women’s collegiate sports.
Losey graduated from Vanderbilt with a bachelor’s in human and organizational development.
Speaking to StateCollege.com last summer, Losey discussed his own career and why he had turned down other opportunities — opting to stay with Franklin and his program.
“James is as advertised,” Losey said. “He prides himself on being a relationship-based coach, and he’s like that with the players; he’s like that with the staff. It is a profession where people bounce around a lot and I think sometimes people make the assumption in this profession that loyalty doesn’t exist anymore. I would highly disagree with that. I know personally, I’m loyal to James Franklin; I’m loyal to Dwight Galt… As a young head strength coach, I thought I had a lot of things figured out, and I did, but there was still a lot more to learn, especially from a guy like Dwight who had been in the profession for going on at that time 25, 30 years. So it was just kind of like the stars aligned.”
“That’s kind of why I’ve stayed with James; it’s just that I have the utmost confidence in him. I have the utmost confidence in Dwight. I wouldn’t change our situation. Our families are close. Our wives hang out together. I know their kids very well. They know my kids very well, so it’s, you just don’t find that often in this profession, and I’m not interested in giving that up any time soon. Not for a quick payday. You know, I tell people all the time my associate director position here at Penn State is better than 95% of the director positions out there.”
Tuesday’s news comes in conjunction with the promotion of Rhian Davis who will guide the performance enhancement for Olympic sports programs, while also continuing to serve as the performance enhancement coach for the women’s basketball and men’s tennis programs.
