David Duda, Jr. joined the University of Pennsylvania men’s basketball staff as the director of basketball operations in May 2025.
Duda came to Penn after spending two years on Mike Rhoades’ staff at Penn State University as a graduate assistant. His professional operations experience also includes serving as the basketball director at the iRoy Multi-Sport Complex in Collegeville, Pa., and as a basketball camp director at Competitive Edge Sports in King of Prussia, Pa.
Duda played his college ball at East Stroudsburg (Pa.) University, where he was a Dean’s List student who earned College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District and NABC Honors Court accolades. He graduated with the program record for 3-point field-goal percentage for a season, going 52-106 (49.1) as a senior in 2022-23. That same year, Duda was just the second CSC Academic All-America nominee in program history.
Duda graduated Magna Cum Laude from ESU in sport management and got his master’s degree in higher education at PSU.
Duda grew up in the Philadelphia region; his father, also named David, is currently the athletic director at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pa., following a long career as a college basketball coach in the area. The younger David played at Methacton High School where he graduated third on the school’s all-time scoring list with 1,232 points and was the all-time leader with 246 three-point baskets, He was a two-time first-team all-league selection and the Suburban Markward Player of the Year as a senior.
