University of Arizona Athletics

Philip Congleton joined the Arizona staff as an Assistant Coach in July 2024. He comes to Tucson from NJ/NY Gotham FC where he has served as Head of Sports Science since 2020.

In his role with Gotham, Congleton was responsible for monitoring data and analytics to track players’ physical performance. He created team and individual plans to assist with training, injury prevention, rehabilitation and load.  He has served as a sports science consultant for Arizona Soccer since Dec. 2022, assisting the coaching staff with data usage and load management.

Congleton spent the 2018 and 2019 seasons at James Madison as a high performance coach, implementing a data-driven philosophy to help guide training and load management for the student-athletes. 

He spent the 2016 collegiate season at Mary Baldwin University as the strength and conditioning coach for women’s soccer, creating a periodization scheme for team sessions and working individually with student-athletes on strength and fitness development.

Congleton graduated from Christopher Newport University in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science in Integrative Biology and obtained a master’s degree in Exercise Physiology in 2019 from James Madison.