Wow, it has been a while since I have gotten on the blog and posted anything of note. With a lot of new faces competing to replace the 23 graduated seniors off of last years team, my staff and I were very busy with camp evaluation. I am pleased to report, albeit late, that we had a fantastic football camp. Every day we challenged our young men to compete and improve and that is what they did each and every opportunity that they were given.
Week 1 of the 2010 season saw us take our team on the road to face an improved Luther College football team. Although there were a lot of mistakes made by a young team I am pleased by the fact that for the seventh straight year we were victorious. The 28-21 victory was a lot closer than we would have liked the final score to be but it was a great road win and although we see there is more work to be done I was proud of how we played as a team.
Our Kodak Offensive Player of the Week was So. QB Eric Iverson. Our Kodak Defensive Player of the Week was Fr. DL David Miller. Our Kodak Special Teams Player of the Week was So. LB Cody Hedstrom. Jr. RB Leon Clark was our Offensive Player of the Week. Sr. Captain DL Max Rustad was our Defensive Player of the Week and Jr. RB Kevin Foss was our Special Teams Player of the Week.
Week 2, last Saturday, we were back home and played a very physical Simpson College football team. Going in I felt that we would do better, especially on defense. I challenged our players and defensive coaches to be better than the week 1 performance. Boy, did they respond. Shut outs are hard to come by; I don't care who you are playing. Our defense held Simpson to no points and 135 total yards and our offense did its part by putting up 34 points. There were some breakdowns on our special teams units so I'll once again have to call some guys out to preform better and get those issues cared for this week.
Fr. WR Marco Silveira was our Kodak Offensive Player of the week. Fr. LB Erick Marigi was our Kodak Defensive Player of the Week and Fr. DB Rashad Washington was our Special Teams Player of the week. Once again Jr. RB Leon Clark was our Offensive Player of the Week. Fr. WR Ian Burrell was our Special Team Player of the Week and Sr. NT Nick Ondler was our Defensive Player of the Week.
This week we host #5 ranked St. Thomas at 1:00pm on Saturday. Hope to see everybody there!
GO OLES
About Me
- ST. OLAF FOOTBALL
- I strive to be a servant leader. One of my firmly held beliefs is that God has put us on the earth to serve others. I am a Christian, husband, father and mentor in that order. On March 31, 2008, I was named the 11th head football coach at St. Olaf. It is both a blessing and honor to be associated with so many great Oles, past & present. Prior to joining St. Olaf, I coached at my alma mater, Wis.-Stevens Point, as defensive coordinator the last two seasons. I spent seven seasons as an assistant at Division II Minnesota State University-Mankato (1993-96, 1999-02) before a three-year stint as the CEO of the Mankato YMCA. I also spent one season as the offensive coordinator for the Green Bay Bombers of the Arena Football league (1999) and another as an assistant at California Lutheran University (1998) as defensive line coach. My wife Deana and I have three children, son Jett and daughters Jersey and J.J.
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