ASSISTANT COACHES
AARON A
TTHOM
PRICE P
KAUMEYER K
O Offensive Coordinator 1st Season 1
D Defensive Coordinator 2nd Season 2
Receivers
PRICE’S FILE
A i jjoins i th i b Aaron P Price the R Rainbow Warrior coaching staff as offensive coordinator in addition to handling PERSONAL the wide receivers for the 2013 season. Years at UH: 1st season Price comes to UH after spendHometown: Pullman, Wash. ing the past nine seasons at UTEP, Alma Mater: Washington State (1994) where his father Mike Price was head coach. From 2004-06, he was quarPLAYING EXPERIENCE terbacks and kickers coach and moved 1994, Edmonton Eskimos (CFL) over to wide receivers and kickers 1991-93, Washington State coach in 2007. Since 2008, he has served as offensive coordinator, quarCOACHING EXPERIENCE terbacks and kickers coach. 2013: Hawai‘i As offensive coordinator, the Assistant (Offensive Coordinator) Miners averaged 388.9 yards per game 2008-12: UTEP including a 426.8 average during the Assistant (Offensive Coordinator) 2009 season. UTEP went on to play 2007: UTEP in the 2010 New Mexico Bowl. Assistant (WRs/Kickers) Price’s first quarterback protégé, 2004-06: UTEP Trevor Vittatoe, ended his career as Assistant (Quarterbacks/Kickers) 2001-02: Washington State UTEP’s all-time passing and total Assistant (Quarterbacks) offense leader, setting a school record 1999-2000: Idaho State for touchdown passes (33 in 2008), Assistant (Quarterbacks/Kickers) while establishing a single-game 1998: Missouri Western State standard by throwing for 517 yards Assistant (Quarterbacks/Kickers) versus Marshall in 2009. He finished 1995-97: Washington State his career atop the school record book Graduate Assistant with 12,439 passing yards, 97 passing 1994: Cal Poly touchdowns, 12,291 yards of total Assistant (Special Teams) offense and 98 touchdowns responsible for. He concluded his career rated 14th in NCAA history in passing yards and 15th in passing TDs. Vittatoe is the only player in school history to throw for 400 yards in four games, and to pass for five touchdowns on four occasions. He is also the lone signalcaller to pass for 3,000 yards in three separate seasons. In addition to coaching the quarterbacks, Price, a former kicker himself, tutored Jose Martinez, who staked his claim as one of the greatest kickers in NCAA history by nailing a 64-yard field goal against UCF in 2008. Martinez was a semifinalist for the Lou Groza Award after becoming UTEP’s first-ever finalist for the honor in 2007. As quarterbacks and kickers coach from 2004-06, Price was instrumental in the development of record-setting performers Jordan Palmer and Reagan Schneider. Palmer threw for a school-record 3,595 yards in 2006, ranking sixth nationally in total offense (292.4 ypg) and 15th in passing efficiency (149.60). Palmer was selected by Washington in the sixth round of the 2007 NFL Draft. Schneider is the Miner all-time leader for kicking scoring (287 points), field goals (50) and PATs (137). He earned first-team all-Conference USA accolades in 2006. Schneider was a semifinalist for the Lou Groza Award as a junior and senior. Prior to UTEP, Price was the quarterbacks coach at Washington State from 2001-02, where his father was head coach from 1989-2002. He was also a graduate assistant at WSU from 1995-97, working with the punters, kickers and quarterbacks. Price spent two seasons at Idaho State (1999-2000), coaching the quarterbacks and kickers. Earlier in his career he was the special teams coach at Cal Poly (1994) and the quarterbacks/kickers coach at Missouri Western State (1998). As a player at WSU, Price was the team’s primary kicker for two years (199293). He hit three field goals against Arizona as a junior, including a 51-yarder and the game-winner from 47 yards with 31 seconds remaining. He also made a 22-yarder to beat Utah in the Copper Bowl, and a career-long 52-yarder versus Temple. In just three seasons at Washington State, he scored 147 points. He was 57-for-59 on PATs and 30-for-50 on field-goal tries. Following his collegiate playing career, Price saw brief action with Edmonton of the CFL and Sacramento of the World League in 1994. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physical education from WSU in 1994 and has a family with his wife Diamond. 18
Linebackers
KAUMEYER’S FILE
I his hi first fi t season as defensive d f i coordiIn nator, Thom Kaumeyer reshaped the Hawai‘i defense. Despite a 3-9 record, PERSONAL the Rainbow Warriors ranked among Years at UH: 2nd season the Top 10 nationally in passing defense Hometown: Encinitas, Calif. (11th), allowing 182.8 yards per game Alma Mater: Regents (1993) and finishing 41st in total defense (372.9), their highest ranking since PLAYING EXPERIENCE 2007. 1991-93: New York Giants (NFL) Kaumeyer came to UH with more 1989-90: Seattle (NFL) than 20 years of combined collegiate and 1989: Los Angeles (NFL) professional football coaching experi1987-88: Oregon ence, most recently four seasons at the 1985-86: Palomar NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars. His previous collegiate experience included defensive COACHING EXPERIENCE coordinator at Tulane and defensive 2012: Hawai‘i coordinator and defensive backs coach at Assistant (Defensive Coordinator) San Diego State. He also spent two sea2008-11: Jacksonville (NFL) sons as defensive quality control coach Assistant (Asst. Defensive Backs) with the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons. 2007: Tulane The Encinitas, Calif., native Assistant (Defensive Coordinator) coached at Jacksonville, where he assisted 2002-06: San Diego State with the defensive backs from 2008-11. Assistant (Defensive Coordinator/DBs) While there, he directed the develop2000-01: Atlanta (NFL) ment of 2009 draft pick Derek Cox, Defensive Quality Control who led the team in interceptions in 1998-2000: Palomar each of his first two seasons. The Jaguars Assistant (Defensive Coordinator/ improved defensively from 28th in 2010 Special Teams) to sixth in 2011, the second-largest 1995-96: Onward Kashiyama, Ltd. improvement in the NFL, and improved Head Coach in nearly every statistical category from 1991-94: Palomar the previous season. The 2011 defense Assistant Coach allowed 313.0 yards per game, the fewest since 2006. After spending one season at Tulane, Kaumeyer joined Rich Brooks’ Kentucky Wildcats for a few weeks before taking the position at Jacksonville. In his one season at Tulane, Kaumeyer helped turn around the Green Wave defense, improving their national ranking in scoring defense, total defense and rushing defense from the previous season. From 2002-06, Kaumeyer was the defensive coordinator at San Diego State, where the Aztecs produced one of the best defenses in the Mountain West Conference. During his first year with SDSU, he orchestrated the biggest defensive improvement in the country from 95th in 2002 to eighth in ’03. In 2004, the Aztecs ranked in the Top 50 nationally in three team defensive categories and finished second in the MWC in red-zone defense each of the last two seasons. Prior to SDSU, Kaumeyer spent two seasons on the Atlanta Falcons staff (200001), serving in all facets of the defensive game plan as the assistant secondary coach. Previously, Kaumeyer worked at Palomar College as both defensive coordinator and special teams coach from 1998-2000. It was his second stint at Palomar and in between, spent two years in Tokyo, Japan, where he was the head coach and oversaw football operations for Onward Kashiyama, Ltd., in 1995 and ’96. His first stint at Palomar began in 1991, where he would gradually work his way up to the head coach position in his final season of 1994. Kaumeyer led the Comets to a record of 8-3 and ranked No. 18 nationally by JC Grid-Wire. As a player, Kaumeyer was an All-American safety at Palomar before transferring to the University of Oregon, where he played two seasons and earned all-Pac-10 honors. As a safety, Kaumeyer was drafted by the L.A. Rams in 1989 and also played with Seattle (1989-90) and the New York Giants (1991-93). He received his bachelor’s degree in American studies from Regents University in Albany, N.Y., in 1993, and later earned a master’s degree in education at Azusa Pacific in 1998. Kaumeyer resides in Honolulu.
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