Football

HEAD COACH:

Scott Strohmeier enters the 2024 season as the only Head Coach in the Reivers' 15 seasons.  'Coach Stroh' has guided Iowa Western from fledgling football status to national power in his time in Council Bluffs.  The Minnesota native, who is entering his 24th season in college football, hit the century mark for career wins with a 36-19 victory over Northwest Mississippi in the 2017 Graphic Edge Bowl and won his 100th game with the Reivers in a 31-10 victory at Ft. Scott Community College in October of 2019. Last season the Reivers defended their national championship, defeating East Mississippi 61-14, the most points in a national championship game versus a full scholarship opponent in NJCAA history.  The team finished the year ranked #1 in the NJCAA Top 20, the 11th time in 15 seasons that the team finished inside the Top 5 of the rankings, and the 12th time in 15 seasons that the squad was ranked in the Top 10 of the final poll. In 2022 The Reivers capped off the program’s 14th season with the program's 2nd NJCAA national championship, defeating #1 Hutchinson 31-0.  

Since the beginning of the football program in 2009, the Reivers have appeared in five NJCAA National Championship games. The Reivers have accounted for the most wins by any NJCAA football program since 2010, winning the NJCAA National Championship in 2012, 2022, and 2023.  Five players under Coach Strohmeier have earned NJCAA Player of the Year honors, QB Jake Waters in 2012, QB Kai Locksley in 2017, QB Nate Glantz in the 2020-21 Spring season, LB Jacob Ellis in 2021, and DE Jackson Filer in 2022.  Even more impressive, Coach Strohmeier’s Reivers' squads have sent 397 players on to the next level of collegiate football, 30 to the National Football League, and have never suffered a losing season as a team.

Before Iowa Western, Strohmeier coached at North Iowa Area Community College for three seasons, helping the Trojans to the postseason in his final two years in Mason City.

COLLEGE:
The University of Minnesota-Crookston – (BA) Business Management
Concordia University-St.Paul – (MA) Education

PLAYING EXPERIENCE:
Quarterback – Fergus Falls CC
Quarterback – U of M Crookston

COACHING EXPERIENCE:
1998-2003 Asst Head Coach / QB Coach / Offensive Coord -Concordia University- St. Paul
2004 Asst Head Coach / QB Coach / Offensive Coord - Truman State University
2005-07 Head Football Coach - North Iowa Area CC
2008-Present Iowa Western Community College

2021 NJCAA HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE

2012 & 2017 ACCFCA COACH OF THE YEAR

SUCCESS ON THE FIELD:
2023 (12-1) NJCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
2022 (10-2) NJCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
2012 (12-0) NJCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
2021 (10-1) NJCAA National Runner-Up
2020-21 (7-1) NJCAA #4 Final Poll
2018 (10-1) NJCAA #2 Final Poll
2017 (11-1) NJCAA #2 Final Poll
2014 (11-1) NJCAA National Runner-Up - Mississippi Bowl Runner-Up
2013 (11-1) NJCAA #2 Final Poll
2010 (9-2) & 2012 (12-0) Midwest Football Conference Champions
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020-21, 2021, 2022, 2023 Region XI Champions
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020-21 Kinney Cup Champions
2021, 2022, 2023 "The Cup" Champions
2010 Zions Bank 'Top of the Mountains' Bowl Runner-Up
2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 Graphic Edge Bowl Champions

OVERALL RECORD AT IWCC (15 seasons):
142-28

FORMER REIVERS MOVING ONTO THE NEXT LEVEL:
397 (297 D-1) (101 Power Five) (thru '22)

NJCAA PLAYERS OF THE YEAR:
2012 - Jake Waters | QB
2017 - Kai Locksley | QB
2020-21 - Nate Glantz | QB
2021 - Jacob Ellis | LB
2022 - Jackson Filer | DE

ALL-AMERICANS:

2023 - Kemari Copeland | DL
2023 - Luke Eckardt | OL
2023 - Walt Gray DL
2023 - Jonathan Humpal | RB
2023 - Clev Lubin | DL
2023 - Jaylen Pettus | DL
2023 - Joshua Pierre-Louis | DB
2023 - Hunter Watson | QB
2022 - Trevor Brock | OL
2022 - Jamorri Colson | DB
2022 - Jackson Filer | DL
2022 - Rashion Hodge | LB
2022 - Quientrail Jamison-Travis | DL
2022 - Will Lee | DB
2022 - Anterio Thompson | DL
2022 - Bryant Williams | RB
2021 - Jacob Ellis | LB
2021 - Jackson Filer | DL
2021 - Ryan Flournoy | WR
2021 - Landon Nelson | OL
2021 - Ty Nissen | P
2021 - Namdi Obiazor | DB
2021 - Noah Sauberan | K
2021 - Quientrail Travis | DL
2021 - Kaden Wetjen | KR
2021 - Diontrel Wommack | LB
2020-21 - Mekhi Butler | OL
2020-21 - Jacob Ellis | LB
2020-21 - Trey Franklin | DB
2020-21 - Nate Glantz | QB
2020-21 - Zander Gray | DL
2020-21 - Josh Jasek | K
2020-21 - Michael Love | WR
2020-21 - Donnovan Moorer | WR
2020-21 - Jordan van den Berg | DL
2020-21 - Kaden Wetjen | RS
2019 - Devin Drew | DL
2019 - Marcus Haskins | DB
2019 - ZaQuandre White | RB
2019 - Chase Contreraz | K
2019 - Jacob Gamble | OL
2019 - Averie Habas | LB
2019 - Dominic Quewan | DL
2018 - Elijah James | DL
2018 - Nick Singleton | WR
2018 - Daniel Isom | DB
2018 - Willie O'Hara | LB
2018 - Michael Zachary | WR
2018 - Atlias Bell | DL
2017 - Anthony McKinney | OL
2017- Chancelor House | OL
2017- Noah Banks | OL
2017- Chester Graves | DE
2017 - Kai Locksley | QB
2017 - Ky'El Hemby | DB
2017 - Mekhi Sargent | RB
2017 - Vincent Perry | WR
2016- Anthony McKinney | OL
2016- Nick Easley | WR
2016- Mykelti Williams | SS
2016- Royal Silver | DT
2015- Taj Williams | WR 
2015- Abe Freeman | DL
2015- John Swisher | DL
2015- Detric Bing-Dukes | LB
2015- Darez Diggs | DB
2015- Merrick Jackson | DL
2014 - Marcus Montgomery | LB
2014 - Charlie Rogers | DB
2014 - Mondo Williams | DB
2014 - Mike Edwards | DL
2014 - Taj Williams | WR
2014 - Chris Schleuger | OL
2014 - Danny Hamilton | K
2013 - Danny Hamilton | K
2013 - Larry Mazyck | OL
2013 - Geronimo Allison | WR
2013 - Trevon Young | DE
2013 - Jamie Byrd | DB
2013 - Akise Teague | RB
2012 - Jake Waters | QB
2012 - Deon Long | WR
2012 - Dallas Hinkhouse | OL
2012 - Devon Nash | DL
2012 - Lance Irvin | K
2012 - Aaron Wimberly | RB
2012 - Terrell Porter | LB
2012 - Isaiah Johnson | DB
2012 - Mike Smithburg | OL
2012 - Devin Thomas | WR
2011 - Cody Dickson | K
2011 - Wes Smith | WR
2011 - Ty Branz | DL
2011 - Aaron Wimberly | RB
2010 - Zack Stoudt | QB
2010 - Jared Ebert | DL

ALL-REGION / ALL-CONFERENCE PERFORMERS: 282 (thru '23) 
ACADEMIC ALL-REGION: 710 (thru 2022-23 academic year)
NJCAA All-ACADEMIC: 96 (thru '22)

Former Reiver Quarterbacks:

2023 - Hunter Watson, Sam Houston (D-1)
2022 - Luke Longval, Nebraska (D-1)
2021 - Nate Glantz, Iowa State (D-1)
2019 - Braydon Aker, Wartburg (D-3)
2018 - T.J. Starks, Prairie View A&M (D-1)
2018 - Clay Beathard, Long Island U. (D-1)
2017 - Kai Locksley, UTEP (D-1)
2017 - Kurt Walding, Arizona State (D-1)
2016 - Andre Nunez, Louisana Lafayette (D-1)
2016 - AJ Bush, Virginia Tech (D-1)
2016 - Brock Larsen, Midland (NAIA)
2015 - Zach Martin, Northwest Missouri State (D-2) 
2014 - Tay Bender, Southeast Missouri (D-1AA)
2014 - JD Culjat, Morningside (NAIA)
2013 - Connor Bravard, Troy (D-1)
2012 - Jake Waters, Kansas State (D-1)
2011 - Sean Skradis, Iowa (D-1)
2011 - Ricardo Young, Maryland (D-1)
2010 - Lorenzo Dennard, Missouri Valley (NAIA)
2010 - Zack Stoudt, Ole Miss (D-1)
2009 - Austin McBeth, Iowa State (D-1)
2009 - David Blackwell, Bethune-Cookman (D-1AA)
2009 - Jacob Grobe, Peru State (NAIA)