Russell Mollet
Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Backs
(Southwest Missouri State University, 1975)
Russell Mollet will begin his fourth year as an assistant coach with the Randolph-Macon College football team in the fall of 2007. He will serve as the defensive coordinator and work with the defensive backs.
Prior to coming to Randolph-Macon for the 2004 season, Mollet was at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana since 1988. There, he served as defensive coordinator for the football team from 1988 until 1999. From 1999 through 2002, Mollet was the head football coach at Rose-Hulman, and was an assistant coach for the 2003 season. He was also an assistant track coach during his entire time there.
Mollet coached at several schools before Rose-Hulman. From 1986 through 1988, he was football defensive coordinator and assistant baseball coach at Washington University in Missouri. Before that, he was an assistant football coach at Southwest Missouri State University, Independence Community College in Kansas, and Afton Senior High School in St. Louis. In addition, Mollet was a graduate assistant football coach at Western Illinois University, assistant at Branson Junior High School in Missouri, and student assistant at Southwest Missouri State University.
A 1975 graduate of Southwest Missouri State with a B.S. degree in education, Mollet played four years of varsity football. He played in 37 varsity football games in his career, as a linebacker during his freshman season and center the other three seasons. Mollet also received a M.S. degree in physical education from Western Illinois University in 1985. He graduated from Afton Senior High School in St. Louis in 1970.
Mollet and his wife Teresa have two children, Daniel and Melissa, and a granddaughter, Jenna Ann Mollet.