Football
- Title:
- Director of High School Relations
- Email:
- jasontud@unc.edu
- Phone:
- 919-966-2575
Jason Tudryn was named UNC's Director of High School Relations in 2014.
In that role, he is responsible for implementing strategic recruiting plans for prospective student-athletes for UNC's football coaches and maintaining effective relationships with high school coaches. A former high school football coach, Tudryn helps manage the UNC recruiting database, develops lists of summer camps and assists with organizing official campus visits.
Tudryn joined the UNC program after serving seven years as the head football coach at Carrboro High School, a program he started in 2007. Carrboro reached the state playoffs in four consecutive seasons from 2009-12 and advanced to the 2AA state championship game in 2012 before falling to South Iredell. Tudryn was awarded the NCHSAA's 2012 Homer Thompson Memorial Award, which is given annually to "Eight Who Make A Difference" in high school athletics.
Prior to his stint at Carrboro, Tudryn coached in Florida and Massachusetts. He was the defensive coordinator at Naples Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Fla., where he worked for his father, from 2002-06. He was the head coach at Miami Coral Park High School for two seasons in 2000 and 2001 and was an assistant at Immokalee High School in 1999.
A native of Northampton, Mass., Tudryn was an assistant coach at American International College (Division II) in Springfield from 1997-98 and was an assistant coach at Curry College (Division III) in Milton, Mass., in 1996.
Tudryn was a four-year letterwinner at safety at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst where he graduated with a degree in sociology in 1996. He received a Master's in special education from AIC in 1999.
Tudryn and his wife Barbie have two girls, Taliana and Ana, and a son, Phoenix. His father, Frank, coached high school football for more than 30 years and is a member of the Massachusetts High School Hall of Fame.
