UConn has announced that men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley has hired Gavin Roberts to be the Huskies’ Director of Sports Performance. Roberts replaces Mike Rehfeldt, who spent one season as UConn’s Director of Sports Performance before returning to Cincinnati earlier this month.
Roberts, a 31-year-old Somerset, New Jersey native, nearly played football at UConn but chose instead to play at Purdue. After his playing career ended, he became an assistant strength and conditioning coach with the Boilermakers’ basketball program from 2013-15 before leaving to become an assistant director of sports performance at Western Michigan.