Goggans joins Bulldog football coaching staff as linebacker coach

Pine Grove, California native Adam Goggans has joined the Holmes Community College football program as linebackers coach.

Goggans played football, basketball and baseball at Amador High School in Sutter Creek, California. During his high school career, Goggans was a First Team All-Conference center as a senior and Second Team All-Conference center his junior year. In baseball, he was a Second Team All-Conference first baseman his sophomore-senior seasons coming in second behind current Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge.

After high school, Goggans attended Fullerton College, where he played linebacker and long snapped. After Fullerton, he transferred to Lindenwood University-Belleville, in Belleville, Illinois.

Goggans has two bachelor's degrees from LU-Belleville in History and Psychology. He also has a Master's degree in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Applied Sports Science from Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, Alabama.

His coaching stops include: Montana Tech University in Butte, Montana as tight ends coach and offensive intern in 2016; Ottawa University-Arizona in Surprise, Ariz. as a running backs coach/intern in 2017; Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H. as a defensive backs coach in 2018; Kentucky Christian University in Grayson, Kentucky as a linebackers coach; and Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, Ala. as the defensive graduate assistant working with the defensive line from 2019-2021.

The Montana Tech team finished 10-2 in the Frontier Conference and made it to second round of the NAIA playoffs. Goggans coached All-Conference selection Andrew Loudenback at tight end. At Alabama A&M, he coached All-Conference defensive lineman Marcus Cushnie. The Bulldogs claimed the SWAC Championship winning 40-33 over Arkansas Pine Bluff and also their first Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) National Championship.

At A&M, he was responsible for video breakdown, game planning and roster management and academic monitoring along with working with the defensive lineman and running the scout team offense and scout team special teams. He worked with former Holmes defensive coordinator Chris Shelling.