Rod Ojong - Defensive Graduate Assistant - Football Coaches

Rod Ojong

Title:
Defensive Graduate Assistant
Email:
rojong@memphis.edu
Phone:
901-678-5119

Rod Ojong is in his first season as a member of the University of Memphis football coaching staff, serving as a graduate assistant coach on the defensive side of the football.

Ojong joins the Memphis coaching staff from the University of West Georgia where he was a graduate assistant and later restricted earnings coach, working with the Wolves’ strong safeties during the 2014 season and the team’s spring practice drills.

Prior to being a part of the coaching staff at West Georgia, Ojong was a graduate assistant coach at Lindsey Wilson College during the 2013 season.

Ojong coached Lindsey Wilson College’s outside linebackers and was also an assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Blue Raiders.

Lindsey Wilson College, which began fielding a football team in 2010 after a 75-year absence, finished 18th in the final 2013 NAIA poll. Ojoing also worked spring drills in both 2013 and 2014 at the school and also had off-campus recruiting responsibilities.

Ojong began his coaching career at his alma mater, Monmouth College where he worked the 2012 season as a student assistant linebacker coach.

Ojong was a two-year letter winner and team captain at Monmouth College. He was an all-conference linebacker in 2011 and a member of two Midwest Conference championship teams.

He graduated from Monmouth College with a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education in 2012.