Elijah Haggard will be joining Coach Grey and his staff in the Spring of 2023 serving as the Defensive Run Game Coordinator, Special Teams Coordinator, and Defensive Line Coach. Most recently he worked at the University of Memphis where he served for two years, (2021-2022) as A Defensive Line Graduate Assistant where he was part of back to back bowl championship teams in both the Hawaii Bowl (2021), and The First Responders Bowl (2022). During his time at Memphis he also graduated with his Masters Degree in Sports and Hospitality Management.
Prior to the University of Memphis, he served for one year as a graduate assistant coach at The University of North Alabama working with the linebackers in 2020.
Before, his time at North Alabama he worked for six months as linebacker coach at Avila University in Kansas City, Mo.
Prior to Avila, he served as a Defensive Student Assistant Coach at the University of Tennessee at Martin where he worked with Linebackers, Defensive Line, and assistant to the defensive coordinator. In 2018, the Skyhawks led the Ohio Valley Conference in scoring defense, allowing 19.5 points per game in league play. UTM's defense was also prominent in the 2017 national statistics.
In all he worked as a student assistant at UTM from 2015 until his graduation in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education, focused in Biology.
A Parsons, Tennessee, native, he is a 2015 graduate of Riverside High School where he Lettered in football.
Twitter - @CoachHaggardASU
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