Utah Tech University Athletics

Bonner Bordelon is in his second season on the Utah Tech football coaching staff as special teams coordinator and defensive assistant coach.

During his first year on the Trailblazer coaching staff, Bordelon oversaw marked improvement in all four core special teams categories during the 2024 season. Utah Tech finished the 2024 campaign ranked sixth in the NCAA FCS subdivision in kickoff return defense average (15.39 ypg), which was the program's best average in its NCAA era.

In addition, the Trailblazers improvement in kickoff return yard average (19.18 ypg in 2024/12.9 ypg in 2023) in 2024, highlighted by a 66-yard kickoff return (longest in the program brief FCS era) in Utah Tech's upset win vs. then No. 9-ranked Central Arkansas (11/2), as well as in punt return yardage average (7.20 ypg in 2024/-0.4 in 2023), and net punt average (37.16 ypp in 2024/37.01 in 2023). 

Coach Bordelon join Coach Anderson's staff after serving two-plus seasons as special teams analyst at TCU, where he was part of the Horned Frogs' 2022 Fiesta Bowl victory over Michigan that propelled them on to the CFP National Championship game. 
 
Prior to his stint at TCU, Coach Bordelon spent three seasons at SMU from 2019-21, where he worked as special teams coach and defensive analyst (2021), offensive analyst (2020-21) and personnel/operations assistant (2019-20). He began his football coaching career at West Ouachita HS in West Monroe, La., where he served as an offensive assistant coach and assistant director of football operations in 2018.

Coach Bordelon graduated with his Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice at Louisiana-Monroe in 2019. While at ULM, he was a member of the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society and National Society of Leadership and Success, and made the President's Academic List. Bonner and his fiance, Bayli Waidelich, reside in St. George.