Klay Koester
Wide Receivers/Assistant JV

Klay Koester’s Kentucky ties with the Mumme family landed him his first post-collegiate coaching job, and he will serve as the wide receivers coach for McMurry in 2009. Koester has spent the last three seasons with NCAA Division I-AA Eastern Kentucky University.

In 2006 as an undergraduate assistant coach, Koester, helped coach wide receivers and quarterbacks for the Colonels who finished with a 7-4 record and averaged 354.5 yards of total offense per game.

After receiving his undergraduate degree in Sports Management in 2007, Koester stayed on to pursue a master’s and served as the football team’s graduate assistant and wide receivers coach for 2007 and 2008.

In both seasons, EKU finished as the Ohio Valley Conference Champions and finished with a 9-3 record in 2007 and an 8-4 mark in 2008. In 2007, Koester saw the Colonels wide receiving corps catch 210 passes for 2,278 yards and 10 touchdowns under head coach Danny Hope. Hope won OVC coach of the year and now coaches at Purdue University. In 2008, Koester worked under first year head coach Dean Hood who was named the OVC’s Coach of the Year. In 2008, Koester guided four receivers to at least 350 yards receiving.

He finished his master’s degree in sports administration at EKU in December of 2008. He attended high school in Duluth, Ga. and graduated in 2003. His father, Edward, has been a high school head football coach for 22 years at various high schools throughout California, Oklahoma, Texas and Georgia.

Koester, 24, lives in Abilene.

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