Babson Park, FL - Webber International Football Coach Eric Potochney is excited to announce the hiring of Joe Riordan to the Webber Football Coaching Staff as the Defensive Coordinator. Riordan brings over 15 years of coaching experience to Babson Park.

Entering his tenth season as a collegiate coach, he has coached numerous players awarded with all-conference, all-region, and All-American honors. 

This is a reunion for Riordan and Webber International. He returns to Babson Park after serving as the special teams coordinator and defensive back coach in 2016. That unit finished among the best in the country in Total Defense and Pass Defense. Additionally, the Special Teams unit boasted a top ranked punt return unit. He was selected to the 2017 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) 30-under-30 Leadership Group. The purpose of the group is to identify and to train the next generation of leaders within the coaching profession.

Prior to his return, Riordan worked at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. There, he served as the special teams coordinator and defensive back coach. Lawrence defense led the Midwest Conference in turnovers and tied at the top for Interceptions. Overall, the defense made statistical improvements in every defensive category from the year prior. He mentored a Freshman all-regional Defensive Back that led the country in Interceptions and Passes Defended. Prior to Lawrence, he served as the special teams coordinator and defensive back coach at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, IN for six years. He helped the Little Giants to a 37-14 record which included two NCAC championships in 2018 and 2019 that culminated in a NCAA playoff berth. As an assistant he helped boast of the leagues best defenses while mentoring a handful of all-conference players.

He began his coaching career as an undergraduate intern and student assistant at Ball State University for the 2009 and 2010 season. Riordan worked at the high shcool level for a few seasons before returning to college football at Webber. First, at Bishop Ireton in Alexandria, VA then for current special team coordinator and linebacker coach Rick Wimmer for a few seasons at Fishers High School in Indiana.

Coach Riordan is excited for his second stint in Babson Park and will bring a great defensive philsophy to the Warriors.

"I'm excited to be joining Coach Potochney, the football team, and Webber International University. Incredibly grateful for this opportunity. The opportunity to come back to Webber and lead this defensive unit in one of the best conferences the NAIA has to offer means everything to me. Our defense will be predicated on effort, attitude, and toughness. Our supporters will see a collective, fundamentally sound unit flying around on Saturday. Our staff and players will attack everything together as we strive to be the best in our conference and the country. We want our scheme to be something our staff can easily teach to our student-athletes so they can showcase their athleticism. We want our players to have ownership in what we do. In order for that to happen we have to be incredible teachers of the game."

Riordan is married to his wife, Sarah, and they have two amazing boys Miller and Morris.