Nowak Named Associate Director of Equipment Operations, Tim Gray Added to S&C Staff

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The University of New Mexico has added to the department, naming Ashley Nowak as Associate Director of Equipment Operations – Football, and Tim Gray as a Strength & Conditioning Assistant, working primarily with football.

Nowak comes to UNM after spending the last four years at Southern Illinois where she served as the assistant director of equipment operations.  With Southern Illinois she worked with all 16 Saluki programs including the Saluki football program.

With UNM, Nowak will work exclusively with the Lobo Football program, directing all facets of the team’s equipment needs.  Along with handling all of the teams’ gear, uniforms and practice uniforms, Nowak will direct a student staff that is essential in helping run UNM’s practices and training operations.

While at Southern Illinois, Nowak also served as the Track Office Coordinator for the Bloomington Gold Corvettes.  Prior to SIU, Nowak spent a year at William & Mary as an assistant equipment manager.  She earned two degrees from Aurora University earning her bachelor’s in business administration and management in 2015 and her master’s degree in business administration in 2017.

While at Aurora she served at as Head Student Basketball Manager for the men’s basketball team and she spent her postgraduate years as a football team equipment manager for two seasons.

Gray comes to UNM after spending the past year at Houston Baptist, where he served as a graduate assistant in the strength and condition office working with the Huskies’ football program.  Prior he spent nearly four years at San Diego State, serving a two and half year internship in the strength and conditioning center for the Aztecs, where he worked under Derrick Baker, Lobo Football’s new director of strength and conditioning.

He also spent time at San Diego State as a manager with the football program under head coach Rocky Long.  He earned his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology in 2019 from SDSU.  He has also spent time in the NFL with Los Angeles Chargers as an equipment manager intern.

With UNM, he works with the Lobo Football program, and he serves as the lead strength and conditioning coach for the Lobo Baseball program as well.