Brad Vonnahme is in his first year as linebackers coach/academic coordinator for the University of Sioux Falls. At USF he will coach linebackers and, assist with defensive planning, recruit and service as academic coordinator. He will also work with summer camps and coordinate the ALumni Golf Outing.
A native of Omaha, Neb., Vonnahme, who has FBS and DII coaching experience, serves as linebackers coach for the USF defense, which finished ranked fifth in NCAA DII in total defense in 2019. He comes to USF after spending 2016-19 as an offensive analyst with Fresno State. At Fresno State, he worked with former USF Head Coach
Kalen DeBoer, who is now Head Coach of the Bulldogs, and served as a primary consultant for the offensive staff. While there, Fresno State won the 2018 Mountain West title and captured the Las Vegas Bowl while setting the school record for wins (12) in 2018. In 2017, Vonnahme was part of a staff that guided FSU as the Bulldogs became the second program in FBS history to go from double-digit losses (1-11) to double-digit wins (10-4). That same season, the Bulldogs won the West Division of the Mountain West and captured the Hawaii Bowl.
A graduate of Utah State (B.A., 2011) and Wayne State (M.A., 2013), Vonnahme served as a special teams/defensive line assistant for Utah State in 2015 when they ranked 17
th in total defense in the FBS at 332.5 yards per game and made an appearance in the Potato Bowl. He also served as defensive backs coach at the University of Hawaii in 2014, linebackers coach at Midland University in 2013, and linebackers coach at Wayne State College in 2011-12. He also was the defensive administrative assistant for Utah State in 2009-10.
Vonnahme and his wife Ashley have three boys (Cooper, Maddox, and Owen).
