Football
Sep 12 (Fri)
5:30 PM
- Title:
- Offensive Graduate Assistant Coach
- Email:
- aaron.baer@colorado.edu
A.J. Baer is in his third year on the football staff at the University of Colorado, his second as the assistant director of recruiting. He was promoted into the position in May 2015 after working his first year as an offensive graduate assistant. He originally joined the staff on February 24, 2014 with his primary role assisting Gary Bernardi with the offensive line, working with Klayton Adams with the running backs and tight ends, as well as general overall duties with the entire offense.
Baer, 28, joined the CU staff from San Jose State, where he also spent the 2012 and 2013 seasons as a graduate assistant coach; he worked primarily with the defensive coaches.
He worked as a student assistant in coach at Washington State University under coach Paul Wulff for the 2011 season; while there, he completed his undergraduate degree in Social Sciences/General Studies, with a minor in Sports Management, graduating in December 2011.
Baer played collegiately as a safety at Glendale Community College and Mesa (Ariz.) Community College, named one of the team captains at the latter. He was an All-American at Mesa, and earned a scholarship to attend Western Washington, but they dropped its football program three weeks before the 2009 season. He then chose to remain in the state of Washington and joined the Washington State program as a walk-on, but eventually a knee injury sidelined his career.
He was born March 24, 1988 in Walnut Creek, Calif.; he graduated from Mountlake Terrace High School (Brier, Wash.), where he lettered in football (he attended there one year; prior, he attended Mountain Pointe High School outside of Phoenix, and he lettered in football and track (sprints). He is the son of CU’s former defensive coordinator, Kent Baer, a longtime veteran collegiate coach. He has assisted his dad with the New Era Bowl in Japan on two occasions (the game annually integrates top Japanese college players with selected American players and coaches). A.J. stands for Aaron James.
