FOOTBALL HEAD COACH Rod Huber

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• 2010-11
• 2009-10 - Head Coach

Rod Huber returns in 2009 for his 10th season as the Lions’ head coach. Huber, who directed the team’s defense in 2007-08, has 26 years of coaching at the high school and college level and has been on the Mount football staff since the program’s inception in 1990. Coach Huber led the program to a third straight HCAC championship in 2007, and the Lion s finished 5-5 overall last season, their seventh straight season of a .500 or better record. The Mount is also the only team in HCAC history to record three straight conference titles.

The 2007 HCAC title enabled the Lions to return to the NCAA Division III playoffs for the third straight season, as they took on Wheaton College in the first round. The Mount had 15 players selected all-conference (best in the conference), the HCAC Offensive Most Valuable Player and the HCAC Defensive co-Most Valuable Player. The Lions also had one of the top overall and rushing defenses in the nation again last season. In addition, the Mount was ranked among the top teams in 2006 in various national polls. Huber is a two-time HCAC Coach of the Year and has the most wins of any Mount football coach in program history, sporting a 41-32 record.

Under Huber’s direction in 2004, the Lions went 10-0 during the season, won the HCAC, and qualified to their first NCAA post-season game, playing against Wheaton College. The Lions, after a 2-18 mark in Huber’s first two years, posted five straight seasons of a .500 or better, including going 28-5 the last three years. Over that three-year span, the Mount is 28-2 in the regular season and 18-1 in conference play.

Prior to becoming the third head coach in Lions’ football history in 2000, Huber was a defensive position coach and spent four years as the Lions’ defensive coordinator. He also coached the College’s wrestling program for four seasons. During the 1999-2000 season the team garnered Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Tournament and NCAA Division III Midwest Regional championships. Huber was named conference and regional Coach of the Year that season.

Huber has continued to build upon the concept of the “student-athlete” philosophy set by past Lions’ head coaches John Pont and Ron Corradini, Sr. Huber oversees the entire program with an emphasis on academic success, recruiting and retention of all football players.

Huber also has strong ties to the Cincinnati community and oversees his players’ involvement in community service projects. In 2002 the players helped build homes for Habitat for Humanity, which was featured in the NCAA News. In 2003 the Lions were part of a neighborhood clean-up program in Delhi Township. The past three years Coach Huber and his players have volunteered and ran youth football camps at St. Elizabeth Seton in Milford, Ohio. Coach Huber also serves as the director of summer inter-city youth football camps for ProCamps Worldwide.

Coach Huber played football and wrestled at Glen Este High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. Upon graduation he entered the United States Army, where he played football and spent time in Germany and the U.S. After leaving the Army, Huber enrolled at the University of Cincinnati where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in social studies education in 1988. He began his coaching career at Lloyd Memorial High School (Kentucky) in 1982, moved on to Glen Este for one season (1986) and later coached outside linebackers at C.A.P.E. High School (1987-1988).

Coach Huber received his master’s degree in education from the Mount in 1999. Coach Huber is an active member in the Southwest Ohio Football Coaches Association (SWOFCA), the American Football Coaches Association and is a member of the Jason Foundation. He also runs youth football camps and clinics in the Cincinnati area every year. Huber has been the featured speaker at many events in the Cincinnati area and he serves as an advisory board member for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America (Clermont County). The Lions head coach also speaks at regional and national football events. Hobbies he enjoys include playing the guitar, gardening and fishing.

He and his wife, Sandy, have four children: Jillian, Jake (deceased), Jenna, and Jessica. The Huber’s reside in Amelia, Ohio.