Ryan Leaf Position: Head Coach Experience: Second Year

Ryan Leaf is now in his second season as the WTAMU men's golf coach, having assumed the position prior to the Spring 2007 season.

Leaf, who also serves as quarterbacks coach for the WTAMU football team, initally came to WT prior to the fall 2006 season.

He enjoyed a standout career at Washington State and a five-year career in the NFL. Under Leaf's tutelage, Buff quarterbacks posted incredible numbers in 2007, gaining 5,155 passing yards, averaging 396.5 yards passing per contest and tossing 51 TDs. The teams' pass yardage and TDs were tops in the nation.

During the 2006 football season, Leaf helped guide an offensive unit to a spectacular season. The Buffs put up 5,139 yards of total offense and ranked second, nationally, with 326.1 passing yards per contest.

Before joining the coaching ranks, Leaf emerged as one of the nation's top collegiate quarterbacks as he passed for over 8,000 yards during his three-year career at WSU. His time in Pullman, Wash., culminated his junior year (1997) when he was named a first team All-American after throwing for a school-record 3,968 yards and 34 touchdowns in addition to leading the Cougars to the Rose Bowl for only the third time in school history. Leaf finished third in the voting for the Heisman Trophy at the end of that season, finishing behind award-winner Charles Woodson of Michigan and Tennessee's Peyton Manning. The Great Falls, Mont., native still ranks among WSU's all-time leaders in passing yardage, passing touchdowns and net yardage.