BRENT BOLTE
Defensive
Coordinator
Linebackers
Brent Bolte enters his eighth season on the Bemidji State
coaching staff and his fifth as a full-time assistant coach. Bolte spent
the 2002 season as an adjunct coach overseeing linebackers, and the
previous two seasons was in charge of BSU’s receiving corps. Bolte
received his promotion to full-time assistant coach in August, 2003 and
was named Co-Defensive Coordinator in 2005. During his five years at
linebacker coach, Bolte developed a First- or Second- Team All-NSIC
selection each year. He began a new streak in 2006 when juniors Matt
Heber and Zach Christ were each named Second-Team All-NSIC. While Christ
led the Beavers in tackles and ranked ninth among his NSIC foes with 85
total tackles and six sacks, Heber tied for second in the league with
four interceptions. He also equalled BSU season and career records
returning a pair of interceptions for touchdowns. Of his 50 tackles, 13
we for a loss. Christ and Heber are just the most recent examples of the
type of player Bolte has turned consistently out. He helped mold the
career of Jon Aamot, who was named Second-Team All-NSIC in 2003. He
finished as BSU’s career leader in solo tackles (157) and finished
second in total tackles (362). In 2002, Bolte helped continue BSU’s
recent tradition of strong play at the linebacker position. Aamot
finished second in the NSIC in tackles per game and became BSU’s
most-decorated player in 2002. He was named Second- Team All-NSIC,
Second-Team All-Region by Daktronics, Inc. and Third-Team All-Region by
Don Hansen’s Gazette. His 115 total tackles and 52 solo tackles were
amongst the 10-best single-season efforts on record at BSU. Bolte spent
the 2000 and 2001 seasons as BSU’s wide receivers coach, where he helped
develop one of the NSIC’s best receiving corps. He coached a First-Team
All-NSIC pick during both of his seasons at the position; Jason Leden in
2000 and Ryan Welle in 2001. Under Bolte’s tutelage, Leden left BSU as
the program’s career leader in catches, receiving yards and receiving
touchdowns (records since tied or broken), and in 2001 Welle set a
school single-season record for receiving yardage. Before joining the
BSU staff, Bolte spent 1999 coaching wide receivers and quarterbacks at
Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Bolte started and lettered four years as
a linebacker at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. He helped the
program capture the 1995 Midwest Athletics Conference championship and
the 1996 Southern Division crown. He received All-MAC honors and left as
the school’s career leader in tackles (since broken). He graduated in
1998 with a double major in psychology and physical education. Bolte and
his wife Kim have a son, Caden and daughter, Beth. They reside in
Bemidji.