Rusty Grafel is in his third season on the Georgia Southern coaching staff.
Grafel earned 104 victories as the head coach at Colby Community College from 2012-19 before joining the Texas Tech staff, where he served as a graduate assistant last season.
Grafel played at Fort Hays State University from 2004-07 after beginning his playing career at Hutchinson Community College. An Oberlin, Kansas native, Grafel helped lead Fort Hays State to the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship in the 2005-06 season after leading Hutchinson CC to the Jayhawk Conference title.
He began his coaching career as an assistant at Colby from 2009-12. Grafel graduated with a bachelor’s in sports management and a master’s in sports administration.
