Football Adds Nick Rolovich As Senior Offensive Assistant

Travers Family Head Football Coach Justin Wilcox announced Friday that Nick Rolovich has been hired as a senior offensive assistant for the California football program.

Rolovich brings several years of offensive coaching experience with him to Berkeley, most recently serving as the head coach at Washington State (2020-21) and Hawai'i (2016-19). Prior to leading the Rainbow Warriors, Rolovich spent four seasons as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Nevada from 2012-15.

Rolovich guided WSU to a 38-28 win at Oregon State in the 2020 season opener, becoming the first Cougar head football coach to win his debut since 2003 and first to win his first game on the road since 1977. He mentored 11 student-athletes who received All-Pac-12 honors and WSU claimed the Pac-12's first two Freshman of the Week awards in 2020. Rolovich's Run and Shoot offense produced two of the Pac-12's top three leaders in receiving yards during the season.

Leading Hawai'i to a 28-27 overall record and three bowl games during his tenure in Honolulu, Rolovich guided the 2019 squad to its first 10-win season since 2010 as the Rainbow Warriors went 10-5, capped by a 38-34 win over BYU in the Hawaii Bowl. It was the program's first back-to-back winning seasons since 2006-07 after going 8-6 in 2018 and only the seventh time in program history Hawai'i reached double-digit wins.

Earning 2019 Mountain West Coach of the Year honors, Rolovich's offense threw for 338.0 ypg (fifth nationally), while the Rainbow Warriors were 13th in the FBS in total offense at 471.0 ypg. In 2018 the UH offense racked up over 5,800 yards of offense, along with 43 touchdown passes. The aerial assault accounted for 30.8 points per game and 419 yards per contest. 

At Nevada, Rolovich's Wolf Pack offense ranked as high as eighth nationally (2012) in total offense at 514.8 ypg, generating 2,786 yards passing with a rushing attack that ranked seventh nationally at 271 ypg.

Spending a total of eight seasons at Hawai'i, Rolovich served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2010-11 after leading the quarterbacks in 2008-09. For the three years Rolovich had play-calling duties (2009-2011), the Warriors threw for 13,915 yards - an average of 347.9 yards per game - and 96 touchdowns. That includes the 2010 season in which Hawai'i averaged 394.29 yards per game and led the nation in passing offense while finishing sixth in the nation in total offense. That year, Rolovich guided quarterback Bryant Moniz to the top of the total offense chart nationally and to an eighth-place standing in passing efficiency. 

Rolovich coached quarterbacks for two years at City College of San Francisco and began his coaching career as an assistant coach at San Marin High School in Novato.

The Novato native earned his bachelor's degree in economics from UH in 2004 and a master's in human performance and sport from New Mexico Highlands (2007).

Rolovich and his wife, Analea, have three sons, Daniel, William and Patrick, and one daughter, Alana.