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Steve Mathis is entering his third season at USU, serving as the Aggies' team coordinator and recruiting coordinator for the second season after being USU's director of football operations in 2009. Mathis, who worked with Gary Andersen at Utah for the previous four years as the Utes' defensive administrative assistant, will handle the program's daily operations as well as coordinating recruiting campus visits. While at Utah, Mathis worked with the defensive coaching staff, handling office duties in addition to scout team cards at practice and game day charting. "I'm extremely excited to have Steve as a part of our program. He handles all of the behind the scenes tasks, that are vital to our program's operating at the high level that it does," Andersen said. "Not only has he been a long-time friend, he is passionate and dedicated about what he does and he does them exceptionally well." A native of Salt Lake City, Mathis has owned Abbey Carpets for the last 26 years. He was named Businessman of the Year from 2003-05. Mathis also serves on numerous business advisory boards and councils. Mathis was an assistant coach at Alta High School from 2002-04. He was also a little league coach, and as head coach of the Alta Ute Conference eighth and ninth grade team, his squads captured five state titles and won a National Youth Football League championship. He graduated from Snow College in 1980, where he competed with the basketball team. He then attended Weber State and worked as an athletics trainer for the Wildcats, before getting into the business realm. Mathis has six children: J.D., Nic, Tim, Cassandra, Chandra and Emma. |
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