Dan Bleske is in his season season on the Trailblazer Football coaching staff as an offensive assistant and will work with the wide receivers.
Coach Bleske joined the Utah Tech progam after a three-year stint (2021-23) as a graduate assistant coach at San Diego State, where he worked with the
quarterbacks, wide receivers, running backs and tight ends.
Prior to his time at SDSU, he spent one season as a graduate assistant and wide receivers coach at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind. While there, he served as the Engineers' offensive coordinator for the team's 2020 fall intrasquad scrimmage before season was moved to the 2021 spring season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Before RHIT, Bleske served as an offensive analyst at Michigan in 2018 and 2019. In addition to his game day responsibilities with the Wolverine program, he helped with the game planning and ran the scout team secondary, along with recruiting and individual work with incoming freshmen.
Prior to his move to Ann Arbor, Bleske spent two seasons with the football program as an undergraduate student assistant at Minnesota. Whle there he worked with the offense and special teams in 2016, before helping coach the running backs, wide receivers and tight ends as an offensive intern the following season. During his first year at Minnesota, the Golden Gophers finished with a 9-4 record, which was capped by a 17-12 Holiday Bowl victory over Washington State.
Bleske earned his Bachelor's degree in Economics from Minnesota in 2017, and completed work on his MBA at San Diego State in 2023. He and his wife, Rita, were married earlier this year and the couple lives in St. George with their cat, Winston.
