Fernando Noriega
VP of Player Performance, Head Strength & Conditioning Coach
Fernando Noriega is entering his third year as the Philadelphia Eagles' head strength and conditioning coach. In the first two years, Noriega, Rath, and the performance staff have impacted the team's health and performance.
Prior to joining the Eagles, Noriega served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach (2017-20) and strength and conditioning intern (2016) with the Los Angeles Rams. In 2017, Los Angeles finished as the healthiest team in the NFL based on adjusted games lost due to injury, according to Football Outsiders.In 2015, Noriega served as a strength and conditioning intern at Cal State Long Beach while simultaneously serving as the head strength and conditioning coach for El Monte (CA) High School's football program.
Noriega began his career as a strength and conditioning coach at EM Speed and Power Training from2013-14.
Noriega is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and a Certified Performance and Sport Scientist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. In addition, he continues his education in sports management and leadership. Noriega earned a master's degree in Exercise Science from Cal State Long Beach and a bachelor's degree in Kinesiology from Whitworth University, where he was a three-year starter and a captain on the football team.
Noriega and his wife, Claudette, have three children: Ethan, Alonzo, and Diego
Dustin Woods
Associate Strength & Conditioning Coach
Dustin Woods enters his third year with the Philadelphia Eagles after originally joining the team as an associate strength and conditioning coach during the 2021 offseason. Prior to the Eagles, Woods spent three seasons (2018-20) as an assistant strength and conditioning coach with the Los Angeles Rams, including two years under Eagles vice president of player performance and former Rams head strength and conditioning coach Ted Rath. Before he joined Los Angeles, Woods served two stints (2016-18, 201114) as the short track head strength and conditioning coach for the Chinese Olympic Skating Association. During the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, China’s Wu Dajing set a new world record and won the men’s 500m short-track speed skating event. The win marked the first gold medal for China in men’s short track at the Olympics. In total, China speed skaters brought home three medals in 2018. During the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, China won two gold medals, three silver medals and one bronze medal, which marked the most combined medals in men’s and women’s short track. From 2014-16, Woods served as a strength and conditioning coach at Xavier, working primarily with the baseball team, women’s basketball team and men’s and women’s soccer teams. At the same time, Woods served as an international and university performance coordinator for Ignition Athletic Performance Group, a consultant for short track speed skating for the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia and an educator and speaker for Lead Sports, where he participated in seminars and workshops for sports teams and organizations around China. Woods broke into the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengals as a part-time assistant strength and conditioning coach in 2015. A graduate of Miami University (OH) with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and health, Woods was a four-year starter on the football team and voted team captain for the RedHawks his senior season (2009-10). During his time in college, Woods worked as a personal trainer and speed coach at Woods Strength and Conditioning, a family-owned personal training facility owned and operated by his brother and mentor in the field, Scott Woods. A native of Cincinnati, OH, Dustin and his wife, Allyse, have three children, a son, Eli, and two daughters, Zoe and Kaia.
Ben Wagner
Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach
Ben Wagner enters his 11th overall season as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles' strength and conditioning staff.
Wagner, who helps with the implementation of the team's strength and conditioning program, was hired as an assistant strength and conditioning coach during the 2016 offseason. He originally joined the Eagles as a strength and conditioning intern during the 2013 season.
Wagner studied nutrition, exercise and health science as well as dietetics at the University of Nebraska (2007-12), where he served as a strength and conditioning/nutrition intern working with Nebraska's football and men's basketball programs. In addition, Wagner earned his master's degree in performance enhancement and injury prevention from California University of Pennsylvania (2014-15).
Wagner and his wife, Susan, reside in Cherry Hill, NJ. The couple has two sons, James and John.
Autumn Lockwood
Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach
Autumn Lockwood was named an associate performance coach by the Philadelphia Eagles during the 2023 offseason. She originally joined the organization as a strength and conditioning associate in 2022. Prior to the Eagles, Lockwood served as the director of sports performance at the University of Houston (2021-22) and was the assistant director of basketball sports performance at East Tennessee State (2020-21). In 2019, Lockwood gained her first NFL experience as an intern for the Atlanta Falcons’ strength staff during organized team activities. From 2018-20, Lockwood worked as a strength and conditioning graduate assistant with the basketball program at East Tennessee State. She also interned with UNLV’s football program (2017-18) and assisted strength and conditioning efforts for the University of Arizona’s Olympic sports (2017). A native of Media, PA, Lockwood received her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice with a minor in psychology from Arizona. She also obtained her master’s degree in sports management from East Tennessee State.