In second year on Western staff ... In first season as special teams coordinator and second working with running backs ... Graduate assistant at Minnesota State University Mankato last season, working with wide receivers ... Spent previous three years at Kirkwood High School (Mo.) ... Helped KHS to combined record of 30-7 and state semifinal appearances in 2004 and 2005 ... Player/coach and team captain as semi-pro European football player in 2002 for Franken Knights in Rotherburg, Germany ... Four-year letter winner in football at Western Illinois University (Macomb, Il.), earning bachelor's degree in business management in 2002 .... Was Leathernecks' Special Teams Player of the Year in 2000 and Robert Blaha Sr., Memorial Scholarship award winner in 2001 ... Helped WIU to two conference championships and played on 1998 team that advanced to NCAA Division I-AA national semifinals ... Graduate of Webster Groves High School in St. Louis, Mo., earning all-conference, all-district and all-metro honors in football as well as competing in basketball and track ... 30 years old.