Recruits: New Jersey (609, 856) Florida (Central & North), Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Andrew Kirkland is back on familiar ground as an assistant coach working with the Colgate secondary.
After spending 2013 working with the team's outside linebackers, Kirkland shifted back to the secondary under head coach Dan Hunt. Kirkland starred for the Raiders in the defensive backfield as a student-athlete -- helping Colgate to a Patriot League title -- and coached that position in 2012 to boost the Raiders to their eighth conference championship.
Before making his way onto the Colgate coaching staff, the Voorhees, New Jersey, native spent two years coaching at Division III Wesleyan in Connecticut. He worked with wide receivers and coordinating team video for the Cardinals.
Kirkland played defensive back for Colgate's 2005 Patriot League championship team before gaining his first coaching experience as a student assistant during his senior season, which he missed because of injury. Kirkland helped guide the Raiders to another Patriot League title that fall before moving on to King's College of Pennsylvania in 2009.
At King's, Kirkland served as an intern football coach and managed defensive backs for the Monarchs while also serving as junior varsity head coach with defensive coordinator duties. During the summer of 2009, Kirkland was an instructor at the GVAA football camp in his hometown of Voorhees.
