Joe Bolden is in his second season as a defensive graduate assistant on Mike Leach’s staff.
Bolden arrives at Washington State having spent the 2016 season as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, Michigan, where he worked with linebackers and special teams.
Bolden was a football student-athlete at Michigan where he earned four varsity letters as a linebacker and served as 2015 team captain. He was a 2015 All-Big Ten honorable mention as a senior and on the 2015 Butkus Award watch list. As a freshman we was selection to the ESPN and Big Ten Network All-Big Ten Freshman Team.
Bolden received his degree in sport management in 2015 and began work on his master’s of social work in August 2016.