Soccer
Michael Fragale
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia College soccer coach Wealthy Rodriguez has named Rhett Rodriguez because the quarterbacks coach for the Mountaineer soccer program.
Rodriguez involves Morgantown from Jacksonville State, the place he served as an offensive analyst for the 2024 season and helped lead the Gamecocks to the CUSA common season and convention championships.
“I’m happy with Rhett for the trail that he has taken. He was a real student-athlete at Arizona and Louisiana-Monroe, and that can serve him nicely as he continues his teaching profession at West Virginia,” Rodriguez stated. “He can relate to our student-athletes, and he has an important understanding of what we would like and want to perform on offense. It will likely be particular to educate with Rhett at my alma mater.”
Rodriguez was a quarterback at Louisiana-Monroe, within the Sunbelt Convention, in 2021 and at Arizona, within the Pac-12 Convention, from 2017-20.
At ULM, he served as a crew captain and was closely concerned within the weekly sport planning as he assisted in breaking down opponent tendencies and analyzing movie for all the offensive unit. Except for virtually being one other coach on the sphere, he accomplished 51% of his passes for the Warhawks, throwing for 799 yards and 4 touchdowns. His teammates voted him because the offensive consultant on the participant management council to not solely the pinnacle coach however to the athletic administration.
Rodriguez signed with Arizona after a stellar highschool profession at Catalina Foothills Excessive Faculty in Tucson. His greatest season with the Wildcats got here in 2018 below Coach Kevin Sumlin. He accomplished 51.8% of his passes, throwing for 516 yards and three touchdowns. Throughout his time as a quarterback at Arizona, he was closely concerned in Tucson group occasions and served as president of the college’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
After his taking part in profession ended, Rodriguez was a enterprise affiliate for Northern Belief in Tempe, Arizona, in 2022-23, earlier than making the profession swap to collegiate teaching. At Northern Belief, he labored within the monetary world growing trade methods and fund buying and selling. He additionally carried out seminars with student-athletes on monetary planning and methods for the long run.
He obtained his bachelor’s in enterprise administration from Arizona in 2020 and grasp’s diploma in 2021 from Arizona in entrepreneurship earlier than including a second grasp’s diploma in psychology from Louisiana- Monroe in July 2022.
