YEAR: 22nd in 2025-26 (third as head coach in 2025)
PREVIOUS COLLEGE: Cornell '92

AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY

• Geiser was named Ashland football's 15th head coach on Jan. 3, 2023.
• The 2024 season was a historic one for Eagle football, as Geiser led the program to a 9-4 overall record, an 8-1 mark and a title in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, and AU's first road NCAA Division II postseason victory, 40-38, at Charleston.
• Geiser was named 2024 Great Midwest Coach of the Year.
• In his first season as Eagles head coach, the team went 9-3 overall and 8-1 in the Great Midwest. Ashland finished the season on an eight-game winning streak, including the program's first bowl win, 23-20, vs. McKendree at the America's Crossroads Bowl.
• He spent 19 seasons as an Eagle assistant coach - 16 as associate head coach, and also serving as offensive line coach, run game coordinator and pro liaison.
• Coached nine All-American offensive linemen - Blake Dickson, Vince Cashdollar, Reggie Gamble, Justin Magruder, Zachary Douglass, Dominic Giunta, John Conner, Ryan Maguire and Gavin Posey.
• His offensive linemen earned seven All-Great Midwest Athletic Conference and 30 All-GLIAC honors.
• Eagle running backs earned 11 1,000-yard rushing seasons during Geiser's time as an assistant at Ashland, the program's all-time rushing yards record has been broken, the program record for rushing yards in a season has been broken three times, the program mark for rushing yards by a freshman was beaten twice, and the AU mark for single-game rushing yards has been eclipsed twice.

BEFORE ASHLAND UNIVERSITY

• Coached nine seasons at NCAA Division I Akron - as a graduate assistant in 1995-96, then as tight ends coach and video coordinator from 1997-2003.
• Among his prep coaching stops were offensive coordinator/offensive line coach/head junior varsity coach at Lyndhurst Brush High School from 1992-94, and offensive line coach/defensive coordinator at Liberty Benton High School in 1991.
• Started football coaches career as a linebackers coach/freshman defensive coordinator at Triway High School in 1990.
• Geiser is a 1992 graduate of Cornell.

PERSONAL

• Geiser is married to wife Amy, and they are the parents of twin girls, Abigail and Rebecca.
• His birthdate is June 4, 1968.