UVA Adds Mission Viejo’s Logan Redondo as Director of Professional Performance, Data Analysis

The University of Virginia has announced the hiring of Logan Redondo as its new Director of Professional Performance and Data Analysis. This is a new role that was created when the program eliminated diving in March, opening up an additional spot on the coaching staff. He will work primarily on data collection, data analysis, stroke and skill refinement.

A rising name in elite club coaching circles, Redondo joins UVA after a run at the Mission Viejo Nadadores, where he directed the club’s senior group to multiple top-five national finishes, producing multiple Olympic Trials qualifiers and international medalists.

In his new role at UVA, Redondo will serve as a technical advisor and will work with both the coaching staff and Dr. Ken Ono, the STEM Advisor to the Provost and the Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics at UVA, who has long been involved with the program on the analytics side. “He’s here to learn and fully invest in the data,” Virginia told SwimSwam. “It’s going to be a massive boost to our staff who is focusing on this stuff every day.”

“We come up with a lot of ideas,” Virginia told SwimSwam. “His role will be to put those ideas in motion with the brightest minds at UVA. We love the idea of integrating athletics and academics.”

One example is UVA’s collaboration with its engineering department on a custom starting block that measures force production. Redondo will help scale such innovations through new academic partnerships and practical application on deck.

In short, Virginia coaches told SwimSwam, they have lots of reports, but they don’t always have enough to commit to those reports and that data. Redondo’s role will be to invest in that data and those reporting and make it his primary concern as a member of the broader coaching staff.

A former swimmer at the University of Minnesota, Redondo holds a degree in kinesiology and built a reputation at Mission Viejo as a decorated senior coach. Under his direction, the club produced multiple members of the Junior National Team, including the #2 recruit in the high school class of 2025 Teagan O’Dell. He also has international coaching experience, serving as an assistant coach for Team USA at the 2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, where the U.S. team finished atop the medals table.

Over the course of his nearly 14-year swimming career with the Nadadores program, Redondo trained, at times, under Tyler Fenwick, who is now the Senior Associate Head Coach under Todd DeSorbo at UVA.