Emily Funke - Football Coach - University of Colorado Athletics

Delaware

Sep 6 (Sat)

1:30 PM

Emily Funke

Title:
Assistant Director of Football Operations
Email:
emily.funke@colorado.edu
Phone:
303-492-5330

        Emily Funke is in her third year as the assistant to head coach Karl Dorrell, assuming the role on March 2, 2020.   She was also named the assistant director of football operations on August 16, 2022; she will handle both roles forward.

         Funke, 25, transferred over to the football department from CU’s athletic events and facilities department, where she was working for assistant athletic director Orville Jennings since August 26, 2019.

         She graduated from Texas A&M University (College Station) in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in Business (Marketing), with an emphasis in Professional Sales, along with earning a minor in Sports Management. As a student, she worked in the athletic department in facilities and operations for a year with Kyle Field/Football as her main area of focus; she also helped manage the daily upkeep and operations of each athletic venue.

        She also served on two organization committees at A&M, President of the 12th Man Student Foundation and Vice President of External Operations for Sport Management Society. She also was an intern for the Texas Bowl for its 2017 and 2018 games.

        Funke was born December 18, 1996 in Corpus Christi, Texas, and graduated from Sinton (Texas) High School, where was a three-sport athlete in volleyball, basketball and tennis. She is bi-lingual, as she is well-versed in American Sign Language. Her hobbies include watching college sports and the NFL, taking long runs throughout the Colorado mountain sides, going to the beach and traveling around the United States. She also studies famous quotations, her favorite being the anonymously penned, “Don’t count the minutes, just the laughs. Enjoy the little things and make them last.”