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Head Football Strength and Conditioning Coach

Lewis Caralla

Lewis Caralla - Football - Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Year at Tech 4th
Alma Mater Defiance, 2008
Lewis Caralla - Football - Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Lewis Caralla is in his fourth season as Georgia Tech’s head football strength and conditioning coach.

Caralla has previously served as the head strength and conditioning coach for three different NCAA Division I FBS programs, most recently at Buffalo, where he was named Football Scoop’s 2018 Strength Coach of the Year.

His career stops also include directing strength and conditioning at Louisiana-Lafayette and North Texas and serving as an assistant at Michigan, Mississippi State and Georgia Tech. His previous stint at Georgia Tech came in 2010-11.

Originally from Tarpon Springs, Fla., Caralla and his wife, Lori, have three children: Marshall, Ali and Ava.

 THE LEWIS CARALLA FILE
 PERSONAL
 HometownTarpon Springs, Fla.
 FamilyWife: Lori;
Children: Marshall and Ali
 Alma MaterDefiance, 2008
PLAYING EXPERIENCE
 2005-08Defiance (RB)
 COACHING EXPERIENCE
2007USFIntern
2008VirginiaIntern
2009-10Mississippi StateGraduate Assistant
2010-11Georgia TechAssistant Strength and Conditioning Coach
2011Mississippi StateAssistant Strength and Conditioning Coach
2012-14MichiganAssistant Strength and Conditioning Coach
2015North TexasDirector of Strength and Conditioning
2016-17Louisiana-LafayetteDirector of Strength and Conditioning
2018BuffaloHead Football Strength and Conditioning Coach
2019-Georgia TechHead Football Strength and Conditioning Coach

FULL BIOGRAPHY

With 15 years of experience and having previously served as the head strength and conditioning coach for three different NCAA Division I FBS programs, Lewis Caralla joined Georgia Tech’s football staff as head football strength and conditioning coach in 2019.

Even prior to coming on board head coach Geoff Collins’ staff in 2019, Caralla was familiar with Georgia Tech, as he previously served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Yellow Jackets in 2010-11, working with the Jackets’ football program and directing the strength program for Tech’s nationally ranked golf team.

Prior to his return to The Flats in ‘19, Caralla spent the 2018 season as the head strength and conditioning coach at Buffalo, where he was named Football Scoop’s Strength Coach of the Year. In his lone season at Buffalo, Caralla helped turn around a team that went 8-16 over the previous two years into a squad that won the MAC East Division championship and earned the program’s first bowl berth since 2013 (and third all-time).

Before his one season at Buffalo, Caralla was director of strength and conditioning at Louisiana-Lafayette (2016-17) and North Texas (2015). His career also includes stints as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Michigan (2012-14), Mississippi State (2011) and Georgia Tech (2010-11), a graduate assistant at Mississippi State (2009-10) and an intern at Virginia (2008) and South Florida (2007). During his one season as a full-time assistant at Mississippi State in 2011, he worked on the Bulldogs’ football staff with Collins, who was MSU’s co-defensive coordinator.

Originally from Tarpon Springs, Fla., Caralla was a two-time all-conference running back at Defiance (Ohio) College, where he also earned academic all-conference accolades twice and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in wellness and corporate fitness in 2008. He earned a master’s degree in kinesiology from Mississippi State in 2010.

Caralla and his wife, Lori, have three children: Marshall, Ali and Ava.

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