Rob Ash ’73

Rob Ash ’73 was elected president of the American Football Coaches Association for 2011. Ash, who previously served as vice-president for the organization, recently completed his fourth season as head coach at Montana State, guiding the Bobcats to a 9-3 record. Before Montana State, Ash spent 18 years as head football coach at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and nine years as head football coach at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa. Ash lettered three years in football (1970-72) and tennis (1971-73) at Cornell. He remained on the Hilltop and held roles as assistant football coach, head men’s tennis coach, sports information director, assistant basketball coach, full-time faculty member, and intramurals director until 1980. Ash’s four-year stint as a football assistant produced Midwest Conference championships in 1976 and 1978. He’s married to Margaret Burke Ash ’80 and the couple have two children: Scott, 26, and Kelly, 23.