Chuck Petersen - Football Coach - Air Force Academy Athletics

UNLV

Oct 11 (Sat)

1:30 pm MT

Chuck Petersen

Title:
Football Executive/Assistant Recruiting Director

Chuck Petersen is returning “home” to the Air Force Academy in 2023. Petersen will serve as football executive and assistant recruiting director.

Petersen was an assistant at the Air Force Academy for 18 years, coaching the junior varsity running backs (1985/1990), wide receivers (1991-96) and quarterbacks/fullbacks (1997-06). He was the primary play caller for the Falcons from 1997-06 and served as the offensive coordinator from 2000-06.

As a player and coach, Petersen was a part of teams that won 14 Commander-in-Chief’s Trophies, went to 11 bowl games, won three conference championships and owned a 19-3 record against Army and a 15-7 record against Navy.

Since leaving Air Force, Petersen has served as the safeties coach at North Texas from 2007-10, was the head coach at Orange Lutheran High School in Orange, Calif., from 2012-16 and at Hyde Park High School in Austin, Texas, from 2017-21. Petersen most recently coached tight ends at the Naval Academy in 2022.

Petersen is a 1985 graduate of the Air Force Academy where he was a four-year letterwinner at cornerback and served as a team captain his senior year. As a player, Petersen was a member of the first two Falcons teams to win the Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy and helped lead Air Force to its first two bowl wins in school history (Vanderbilt in the 1982 Hall of Fame Bowl and Ole Miss in the 1983 Independence Bowl). As a player he was 3-1 against both Army and Navy and was a member of two Air Force teams that beat Notre Dame.

Petersen served seven years active duty in the United States Air Force and was honorably discharged as a Captain. He served in Air Force Space Command at Eglin Air Force Base in Ft. Walton Beach, Fla. He was a Space Operations crew commander and director of standardization and evaluation for the 20 Space Surveillance Squadron.

Petersen and his wife, Roya, have three children: Chase, Brady and Natalie and three grandchildren: Chance, Nash and Brooklyn. Brady is a 2019 graduate of the Naval Academy and is an Infantry Officer in the United States Marine Corps.