Football
Sep 27 (Sat)
8:15 PM
- Title:
- Recruiting Assistant
- Email:
- erik.aunese@colorado.edu
Erik Aunese is in his fourth year on the University of Colorado staff as a football recruiting assistant, named to the position on August 1, 2015, after working the previous two years as a student assistant in the football office.
Aunese, 26, was hired as a student assistant just prior to coach Mike MacIntyre’s first fall camp at CU in August 2013.
He attended Fort Lewis College (Durango, Colo.) as a freshman on a partial scholarship in 2010; he returned to his native California where he played two years on the defensive line at Palomar Junior College under coach Joe Early. He earned his A.A. degree at Palomar in 2013; while working as an intern at Colorado, he took on-line classes with Colorado Mesa University (Grand Junction, Colo.) to finish off his bachelor’s degree, earning his diploma in Sports Management in August 2016.
He was born on June 30, 1992 in Oceanside, Calif., and graduated from Mission Hills High School (San Marcos, Calif.), where he played football (fullback and defensive line); he attended MHHS for three years after going to Vista High School his freshman year. His hobbies include playing basketball and spending time with his extended family. An uncle, the late Sal Aunese, CU’s starting quarterback in the 1987-88 seasons who passed away from stomach cancer on Sept. 23, 1989.
