Aurmon Satchell, who has had stints working with Power Five football schools South Carolina, Indiana and Minnesota, is in his second season as UNM’s Head Athletic Performance Coach, working specifically with UNM’s football team.
With New Mexico, Satchell’s experience and enthusiam helped the Lobos to a 9-4 record and a trip to the Gildan New Mexico Bowl.
Satchell comes to UNM most recently from South Carolina, where he served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach for four seasons. He also spent from the 2009 and 2010 seasons with South Carolina as an assistant. In between those two stints he spent one year at Indiana University.
While with South Carolina he coordinated the athletic performance program for the Gamecocks, who went to bowls in three of his four seasons, winning the Outback Bowl, the Capital One Bowl, and Duck Commander Independence Bowl. South Carolina went 11-2 in back-to-back seasons in 2012 and 2013.
Overall in his time with South Carolina he worked with 26 NFL Draft choices including 2014 number one pick Jadeveon Clowney, Alshon Jeffrey , Marcus Lattimore and D.J. Swearinger.
He also spent the 2011 season with Indiana after two years as a volunteer strength and conditioning coach with Minnesota, where he got his first bowl experience as a coach in the Insight Bowl.
Satchell, who will oversee all aspects of athletic performance for the Lobo football program, is a graduate of the University of Texas, where he lettered for three seasons with the Longhorns, including helping
Texas picked up a win in the 2005 Rose Bowl Game 38-37 over Michigan. At Texas he played linebacker and defensive end and was a part of four Bowl teams.
Aurmon and his wife, Veronica, have one daughter, Jayln, and two sons, Sean and Joni. He has a bachelor’s from Texas in education (2007).