A.J. Christoff, Defensive Coordinator

A.J. Christoff enters his fourth season at the Institute with an impressive coaching career that includes stops as a defensive assistant at some of the top college programs in the nation.

He has coached at 11 universities and was defensive coordinator for over 20 years, including stops at Idaho, Oregon, Stanford, Notre Dame, Colorado, and Cincinnati.

Christoff will once again handle defensive coordinator responsibilities and will also work closely with and supervise the secondary. Christoff coached on teams that have a combined 11 bowl game appearances (Notre Dame, Alabama, UCLA, Colorado, & Cincinnati.

In two seasons as defensive coordinator at Cincinnati (2001-02), the Bearcats earned trips to the 2001 Motor City Bowl and 2002 New Orleans Bowl.

Christoff has coached on conference championship teams in four different conferences, the Pac-10 (UCLA, 1994), SEC (Alabama, 1989), and Conference USA (Cincinnati, 2002), and Big Sky (Idaho). Christoff also served as assistant coach in the NFL ranks coaching the San Francisco 49ers secondary in 2005 between stints at Stanford.

A native of Ritzville, Wash., Christoff earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Idaho and a Masters Degree in health education from Oregon State. He and his wife, Susan, have two children, Rob, linebackers coach at Idaho, and Andrea, a pediatrician.

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