Fast facts and athletics staff

Athletics quick facts

Nickname: Beavers
School colors: Royal purple and white
Affiliation: NCAA Division III
Conference: Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference
Athletics department phone: 419-358-3227
Athletics department fax: 419-358-3070
Athletics department general e-mail: sportsinfo@bluffton.edu
Bluffton media outlets
Directions to athletics facilities

Athletics administration directory

  
Athletics director
HFS department chair
 
 Phill Talavinia  (biography)
Alma mater: Anderson '85
Athletics phone: 419-358-3227
E-mail: talaviniap@bluffton.edu
 
 
 Tami Forbes 
Office phone: 419-358-3336
E-mail: forbest@bluffton.edu
Sports information director
Associate athletics director/SWA

Bill Hanefeld, Jr.
Alma mater: Bluffton '05
Office phone: 419-358-3241
Office fax: 419-358-3070
E-mail: sportsinfo@bluffton.edu
 

Kim Schimmoeller
Alma mater: Miami '06
Office phone: 419-358-3221
E-mail: schimmoellerk@bluffton.edu 

2011-12 sports information staff:

  • Office/gameday assistants:
    Josh Bruner, Keisha Holtsberry,
    Jordan Marbaugh, Evan Skilliter  
  • Gameday assistants:
    Mollie Landry, Orry Moughler,
    John Oyer, Kyle Stover, Crosby
    Suter, Ryan Schadewald, Ryan Ebbeskotte 
Athletic trainer
 
 

 

 

Tyler Schlosser
Alma mater: Toledo '03
Office phone: 419-358-3221
E-mail: schlossert@bluffton.edu

Assistant trainers

  • Kim Shimmoeller
  • Jana Teague
           

Athletics department assistants

  
 
 Chris Gable
Athletics administrative assistant
Alma mater: Bluffton '88
Office phone: 419-358-3227
E-mail: gablec@bluffton.edu

 

 Jane Amstutz
Recruiting assistant
Office phone: 419-358-3370
E-mail: amstutzj@bluffton.edu
     

Bluffton coaching staff 

  
Baseball
Men's basketball
James Grandey (biography)
Head coach
Alma mater: Muskingum '99
Office phone: 419-358-3292
E-mail: grandeyj@bluffton.edu
Guy Neal (biography)
Head coach
Alma mater: Bowling Green '82
Office phone: 419-358-3222
E-mail: nealg@bluffton.edu

Assistant coach

Assistant coaches
Women's basketball
Cross Country
 
 Chad Shutler (biography)
Head coach
Alma mater: Heidelberg '97
Office phone: 419-358-3224
E-mail: shutlerc@bluffton.edu
Karen Brandt (biography)
Head coach
Alma mater:
Office phone: 419-358-3898
Email: brandtk@bluffton.edu

Assistant coaches

Assistant coaches
Football
Men's and women's soccer
 
 Tyson Veidt (biography)
Head coach
Alma mater: Muskingum
Office phone: 419-358-3636
E-mail: veidtt@bluffton.edu
 
 Rick Nussbaum 
(biography)
Head coach
Alma mater: Goshen '91
Office phone: 419-358-3010
E-mail: nussbaumr@bluffton.edu

Assistant coaches

Assistant coaches 

 
Softball
Heather Bruder (biography)
Head coach
Alma mater: Alma '99
Office phone: 419-358-3378
E-mail: bruderh@bluffton.edu

Assistant coach

Brooke Babcock
Office phone: 419-358-3020
E-mail: babcockb@bluffton.edu
Track & field
Volleyball
 
 Karen Brandt (biography)
Head coach
Alma mater:
Office phone: 419-358-3898
E-mail: brandtk@bluffton.edu
 
 Steve Yarnell (biography)
Head coach
Alma mater: Findlay '03
Office phone: 419-358-3223
Email: yarnells@bluffton.edu

Assistant coaches
 
 

Assistant coach

Meghan Mohr
Office phone: 419-358-3225
E-mail: mohrm@bluffton.edu