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Kaz Kazadi arrived at TCU in December 2021 as Assistant Athletics Director for Football Human Performance. Kazadi spent the previous four years at SMU. He oversawthe Mustangs strength and conditioning department while serving as the head strength and conditioning coach for the football program. Kazadi, who also worked at Arkansas State and with the Dallas Cowboys, was a member of the strength and conditioning staff at Baylor from 2008-16. He served as the Associate Athletics Director for Athletic Performance during his last five seasons with the Bears. In 2013, he was named the American Football Coaches Association Strength Coach of the Year and the American Football Monthly FBS Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year. FootballScoop.com named him its National Strength Coach of the Year in 2012. In 2007, Kazadi was an assistant strength coach at USF where he helped the Bulls reach as high as No. 2 in the national polls with an appearance in the Brut Sun Bowl. From 2005-07, Kazadi was a member of the Kansas City Chiefs staff. A standout linebacker at Tulsa, Kazadi earned All-Western Athletic Conference honors and was a Butkus Award semifinalist. He received his bachelors degree from Tulsa in sociology with a psychology minor. He went on to earn his masters degree at Missouri in counseling psychology with an emphasis in health promotion and sport psychology while serving as a graduate assistant. Kazadi was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in 1997 after an All-America senior season which saw him earn a Fitness All-American Award. He played five years professionally, including stints in the Canadian Football League and World Football League. A native of DR Congo, Africa, Kazadi immigrated to the United States at age eight. He and his wife, Monique, have three children: Ra-sun, Isis and Rohon.