Colorado University Athletics
Football
- Title:
- Operations Intern
Matt Mueller enters his second year on the University of Colorado football staff as an operations intern after joining the program in May 2008.
Mueller, 29, came to Colorado from Independence Community College in Independence, Kan. where he served as the wide receivers coach for a year-and-a-half (spanning two spring seasons and one fall). He also taught math courses at Independence.
He graduated from Grand Valley State in May 2006 with a degree in physical education with a minor in elementary education. He played football one season for the Lakers as a wide receiver as the team won its first NCAA championship in 2002. Mueller went up against fellow CU operations staff member Todd Ritter in that championship game as Ritter served as a graduate assistant at Valdosta State that season. He then was a student-assistant as the team defended its title in 2003 and worked some with the team through his graduation in 2006.
He began his college career at Michigan Tech, redshirting the 1999 season and playing wide receiver in 2000 and '01 and he played in 20 consecutive games.
He was born March 27, 1980 in Negaunee, Mich., and attended Negaunee high school in the Upper Peninsula. He earned various letters in basketball, football and track & field and was an all-conference wide receiver and honorable mention all-conference defensive back. He has two brothers, Chris and Josh, who both played defensive back at Michigan Tech and one brother-in-law, Andy Leuhmann, who was a linebacker there. Another brother-in-law, Jason Lawson, played defensive back at Northern Michigan. He is married to the former Elizabeth Luehmann.
