Garrett Medenwald

Biography

Empty heading THE MEDENWALD FILE Personal Information Full Name: Garrett Steven Medenwald Born: Jan. 13, 1990, in Madison, Wis. Hometown: Green Bay, Wis. High School: Preble College: Wisconsin-Whitewater, 2013 Wife: Brittny Children: Case, Cleo and Ari Coaching Experience 2012-14: Texas, graduate manager 2014-15: Texas, strength and conditioning intern 2015-Present: Tennessee, director of men's basketball sports performance Garrett Medenwald (MAY-dihn-wald) is in his 12th year as Tennessee’s director of men’s basketball sports performance in 2026-27. His basketball-specific training methods and emphasis on injury prevention began to bear fruit for the Volunteers quickly upon his arrival on Rocky Top. Ten players who trained under Medenwald’s supervision at Tennessee have been selected in the NBA Draft, including four in the first round. All 10 are since 2019, good for the third-most of any school in the nation over the last seven years. In three straight years, 2021-23, a Volunteer led the NBA Draft Combine in max vertical leap: Keon Johnson in 2021 (all-time record of 48 inches), Kennedy Chandler in 2022 (41.5 inches) and Julian Phillips in 2023 (43 inches). At the 2019 NBA Draft Combine, point guard Jordan Bone posted the top overall result in four separate performance tests: no-step vertical leap (36 inches), lane agility drill (9.97), shuttle run (2.78) and three-quarter court sprint (3.03). In 2021, Johnson shattered the event’s all-time record in the max vertical jump w