Fesi Sitake
Passing Game Coodinator/Receivers
Southern Utah '12
Third Season At SUU
Fesi Sitake is entering his third season on the SUU staff, his second in a full-time postion after spending the 2011 season as a student-assistant. He has worked with the receivers every year and this season takes on the additional duties of passing game coordinator.
Last year Coach Sitake's young receivers accounted for over three-quarters of the Thunderbird offense with 3,139 yards. Under Sitake's tutelage junior Fatu Moala garnered second-team all-Big Sky Conference honors after leading the team with 65 receptions for 810 yards and nine touchdowns, while sophomore Mitch Jessop earned honorable mention all-BSC recognition with 33 catches for 519 yards and three scores despite missing four games with injury.
In 2011 Coach Sitake was instrumental in developing a young Thunderbird receiving corps into a productive unit, including overseeing the maturation of true freshman Brady Measom, who wound up leading the team in receptions and earning Great West Conference Rookie of the Year honors from both the coaches and the media.
Coach Sitake completed an outstanding career as an SUU receiver and return specialist in 2010. A two-time all-Great West Conference selection, Sitake had two of the top-10 receiving seasons in the school's history, catching 82 passes in 2010, SUU's fourth-highest single-season total, and 79 in 2009, the sixth-highest. His 877 receiving yards last year are the ninth-most in a season, and his 848 in '09 rank 11th. In 2009 he ranked 10th in the nation in receptions per game an in 2010 he ranked sixth. He capped his career with 14 receptions at Eastern Washington in his final game, marking the third-highest single-game receptions total in SUU history.
Coach Sitake also excelled as a return specialist during his playing days. He averaged 14.8 yards per punt return in 2009, the seventh-best average in the country, and in 2010 he was 25th at 10.8 yards per punt return.
A native of Sandy, Utah, Coach Sitake and his wife Holly are the parents of a son, Sefesi.
