Aaron McGinty will begin his first season on Isaac Collins staff as the linebackers coach. Last season, McGinty was on the staff at Rhodes College. Prior to Rhodes, Aaron spent three years at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.
Under McGinty’s tutelage in 2010, Williams College was ranked number one in both pass defense and pass defense efficiency in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). He also had two players selected to the First Team All Conference Team that year. Prior to Williams College, Aaron coached one year for the SwarcoRaider Tirol of the Austrian Football League (AFL). During his time in Innsbruck, Austria McGinty fielded the AFL’s second best defensive backfield. In 2009, McGinty served as a Bill Walsh Minority Fellowship Intern with the Arizona Cardinals. In Arizona McGinty worked with the defensive backs and special teams. He began his coaching career as the defensive back coach at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in 2008, where he was responsible for the fourth best pass defense in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
From 2002-2003 McGinty played at Tuskegee University after having played at San Jose City College in 2001-2002. While at San Jose City College, he was named to the All Golden Gate Conference Second Team twice. In 2002 he was also named defensive back of the year. Aaron is a native of Atlanta, GA and graduated from Excelsior College with a degree in general studies.
