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Chris Seroka

  • Title
    Head Strength & Conditioning Coach
Seroka joined UTRGV Athletics as the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach on June 1, 2026. He brings 30 years of experience leading strength & conditioning departments across the country, which include stops at North Texas (UNT), Missouri Southern State, and Texas Southern.
 
Seroka spent the last eight years with Texas Southern, overseeing the strength & conditioning for 350 student-athletes. Alongside his responsibilities of supervising the strength & conditioning staff, Seroka was responsible for the strength & conditioning for men’s basketball, bowling, and men’s and women’s golf. The Texas Southern men’s basketball team won three consecutive Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Tournament Championships and earned two NCAA tournament wins. Both men’s and women’s golf also won conference championships in 2022, with the women repeating in 2023.
  
Seroka had a quick stint with Missouri Southern State where he oversaw all aspects of strength & conditioning for 12 athletic programs. Alongside his strength & conditioning responsibilities, he also managed maintenance and upkeep of the two primary facilities, managed the yearly budget, and managed the staff of full-time and part-time employees.
 
Seroka spent 17 years with UNT, where he oversaw the strength & conditioning for over 350 student-athletes across 16 sports. Across his tenure, he worked directly with the football, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s golf, women’s soccer, women’s tennis, and volleyball programs.

The strength and conditioning program emphasized the use of proper technique in its core lifts to assist in improving the athleticism and explosiveness of its athletes while implementing flexibility and prehab protocols to prevent injury and shorten the duration of rehabilitation.

Seroka implemented the strength and conditioning program for the men's basketball team which averaged over 20 wins per season from 2006-07 through the 2011-12 seasons, including the 2007 and 2010 Sun Belt Conference Tournament Championships and two NCAA Tournament appearances. Each of those seasons established new school records for wins in a season, 23 (2006-07) and 24 (2009-10).

Seroka helped the North Texas football program establish dominance in the Sun Belt Conference, winning four-straight conference championships and making appearances in four consecutive bowl games from 2001-2004.

Prior to his tenure at North Texas, Seroka held the position of head strength and conditioning coach at Louisiana State University. A 1988 graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, he was a three-year letter winner in football while also earning two letters in baseball. He was a member of the South squad in the 1989 Senior Bowl.