Reed Heim - Football Coach - University of Colorado Athletics

Wyoming

Sep 20 (Sat)

8:15 p.m.

Reed Heim

Title:
Director of Quality Control/Special Teams
Email:
reed.heim@colorado.edu

Reed Heim is in his first year on the University of Colorado football staff, as he joined the program on February 20, 2019 as the director of quality control for the special teams. Over the course of his career, he has had coaching and administrative experience on the both the high school and collegiate levels.

Heim, 41, came to Colorado from the University of Tulsa, where he was the Golden Hurricanes’ director of high school relations and recruiting for football, as he was named to the position in April 2018.

He spent the fall of 2017 as the assistant head football coach and recruiting coordinator at Richardson (Texas) High School, which followed five years (2013-17) on the football coaching staff at Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. He served as the school’s defensive coordinator and linebackers coach as well as head strength coach during his tenure at Hendrix.

Heim was an assistant coach at Jesuit College Prep in Dallas for the 2011 and 2012 seasons, coaching linebackers and special teams. Prior to that stint, he was a graduate assistant at SMU and Baylor and also spent four seasons at Virginia Military Institute as an assistant football coach (2003-07).

He was a four-year letterman at linebacker at Austin (Texas) College, where he was a team captain as a senior. Heim was a three-year all-conference performer for the Kangaroos as well as a two-time academic all-conference team member. Following his collegiate days, he played overseas in Austria in 2001 and Germany in 2002.

Heim earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Austin in 2000, and received his master’s degree in Education from Baylor in 2009 when he was coaching at Jesuit College Prep.

He was born October 11, 1977 in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from its Lake Highlands High School, where he lettered in football and wrestling. Hobbies include anything in the outdoors; he also fluent in German. He is married to the former Rachel McGinness.