Wes Welker
Wes Welker attended Texas Tech University, and over his four-year career he had 259 receptions for 3,019 yards and 21 touchdowns, and 79 rushes for 456 yards and two touchdowns. He also scored eight touchdowns returning punts in his career, still tied for the NCAA record. In 2003, Welker won the Mosi Tatupu Award, given annually to the best special teams player in college football.
Wes went undrafted in the 2004 NFL draft but ended up signing as a free agent with San Diego Chargers. Welker holds several all-time records for the Patriots and Dolphins franchises. He is the Dolphins' all-time kick off return leader, both in total returns and yardage, and their all-time leader in total punt returns (he is second in yardage). He holds the two highest single season reception totals in Patriots history; and is one of only two players in NFL history to ever have converted a field goal, converted an extra point, recorded a tackle, and fielded a punt and kick off return all in the same game. Then in 2007 Wes and T. J. Houshmandzadeh shared league leader honors for most receptions in the 2007/2008 season.
Wes was selected to his second straight Pro Bowl in 2009. Led the NFL with 123 receptions, which is tied for the second highest total in NFL history and averaged 8.8 receptions per game, also the second highest total in NFL history. Tied an NFL record for fewest individual game played to reach 100 receptions, reaching the 100-catch milestone in his 11th game of the season.
Rod Huber
Rod Huber returned in 2009 for his tenth season as the Mt. St. Joesph Lions’ head coach for the College’s 20th football season. The Lions head coach will also direct the team’s defense in 2007. Huber led the program to a third straight HCAC championship last fall, as the Lions went 7-0 in conference play. The Mount became the first team in HCAC history to record three straight conference titles.
The HCAC title enabled the Lions to return to the NCAA Division III playoffs for the third straight season, as they took on
Wheaton
College
in the first round. The Mount had 15 players selected all-conference (best in the conference), the HCAC Offensive Most Valuable Player and the HCAC Defensive co-Most Valuable Player. The Lions also had one of the top overall and rushing defenses in the nation again last season. In addition, the Mount was ranked among the top teams in 2006 in various national polls. Huber is a two-time HCAC Coach of the Year and has the most wins of any Mount football coach in program history, sporting a 41-32 record.
Huber has 26 years of coaching at the high school and college level and has been on the Mount football staff since the program’s inception in 1990. Prior to becoming the third head coach in Lions’ football history in 2000, Huber was a defensive position coach and spent four years as the Lions’ defensive coordinator.
Upon graduation from high school, he entered the U.S. Army where he played football and spent time in
Germany
and the
U.S.
After leaving the Army, Huber enrolled at the
University
of
Cincinnati
where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in social studies education in 1988. He began his coaching career at
Lloyd
Memorial
High School
(
Kentucky
) in 1982, moved on to Glen Este for one season (1986) and later coached outside linebackers at
C.A.P.E.
High School
(1987-1988).
Coach Huber is an active member in the Southwest Ohio Football Coaches Association (SWOFCA), the American Football Coaches Association and is a member of the Jason Foundation. Coach Huber has directed youth football camps for many pro athletes including Adrian Peterson, Jason Taylor, Chris Johnson, and Reggie Bush.
Coaches
The Old Spice Wes Welker Football Camp will be staffed with the area's top prep coaches. Each coach will bring a unique football background to the event with the ability to share techniques and philosophies with the campers on a daily basis.