Soccer
Mike Montoro
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia College soccer coach Wealthy Rodriguez has introduced that Blaine Stewart has been rehired as the within receivers coach on the Mountaineer soccer teaching employees.
“I am glad to have Blaine as a member of our teaching employees,” Rodriguez mentioned. “I had the privilege of working together with his father, Invoice, throughout my tenure right here. I used to be in a position to watch Blaine develop up alongside my kids. He’s creating right into a advantageous coach and recruiter and is an impressive younger man. He has loads of the identical qualities as his dad, and I look ahead to his contributions to our program.”
Stewart coached the tight ends at WVU for the previous two years. One among his gamers, Kole Taylor, completed his ultimate 12 months in 2024 and was a two-time All-Massive 12 Convention honoree, together with second-team honors in 2023.
He got here to West Virginia in 2023 from the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers, the place he labored because the assistant huge receivers coach for 3 years. He assisted a large receivers room in 2020 that included rookie Chase Claypool, who led all NFL rookies in landing catches (9) and completed second amongst all rookies in complete touchdowns (11). From 2018-22, Stewart was a training assistant on Mike Tomlin’s employees in Pittsburgh, and he introduced a complete of 5 years of NFL expertise with him to Morgantown.
In his first two NFL seasons, he labored with the offense and particular groups and was liable for high quality management of your complete offensive unit. He coached the defensive scout staff, compiled weekly offensive set up plans and produced opponent scouting reviews.
Throughout his 5 seasons with Pittsburgh, the Steelers had been the AFC North Champions in 2020 and made the playoffs twice. He coached three Professional Bowl receivers in Antonio Brown, JuJu Smith-Schuster and Diontae Johnson.
In January 2020, Stewart coached the West quarterbacks on the East-West Shrine Bowl, main particular person conferences and being concerned in all elements of offensive set up, recreation planning and apply schedules.
Stewart began his collegiate enjoying profession at JMU (2013-15) as a large receiver and holder for coaches Mickey Matthews and Everett Withers. He completed his enjoying profession on the College of Charleston (W.Va.) in 2016-17 the place he was coached by former Mountaineer soccer employees member Pat Kirkland. He earned two varsity letters at every faculty.
He acquired his bachelor’s diploma from JMU in 2016 and a grasp’s diploma from Charleston in 2017. Stewart performed highschool soccer at Morgantown Excessive Faculty for coach John Bowers and captained the 2013 West Virginia OVAC All-Stars who defeated the Ohio OVAC All-Stars at Wheeling Island Stadium. Whereas at MHS, Stewart additionally performed baseball and ran monitor.
He’s the son of the late West Virginia head soccer coach Invoice Stewart, who led the Mountaineers to a 28-12 (.700) three-year document from 2008-10. His mom, Karen, nonetheless resides in Morgantown.
