Storm Football Camps
Offensive Coaching Staff  

Joe Beschorner
Assistant Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator

A 2000 Simpson graduate, Beschorner enters his fourth season as an assistant head coach and offensive coordinator for the Storm in 2011. In his first two seasons, Beschorner helped develop one of the top rushing offenses in the conference, leading the league in 2008 and ranking second in 2009.
 
Beschorner came to Simpson from the University of South Dakota, where he spent four seasons as the running backs coach and recruiting coordinator for the Coyotes. Prior to his time at USD, he coached at Minnesota State University-Mankato.
 
Beschorner played on the Simpson teams that won the Iowa Conference Championship in 1996 and ’97 and set a school record with a 99-yard interception return for a touchdown in the 1997 national playoffs.
 
Joe and his wife Beth reside in Indianola with their four children: daughters Olivia, Shea and Piper and son, Mack.

Kevin Ferguson
Offensive Line

The 2011 season marks Ferguson's eighth at his alma mater. For the first five seasons he coached linebackers and kickers, serving as the co-defensive coordinator in 2007. He began coaching the offensive line in 2008, when Simpson led the league in rushing. In 2009, the offensive line paved the way for the second-leading rushing offense in the IIAC.
 
Before coming to Simpson, Ferguson spent three years as a teacher and assistant football coach at Norwalk High School.
 
Ferguson lettered four times for the Storm as a player, earning Academic All-Conference honors twice. He was a member of the Simpson squad that won the Iowa Conference in 1997 and advanced to the national semifinals. Kevin, his wife, Beth and son, Blake reside in Indianola.

Todd Blythe
Wide Receivers

An Indianola native, Blythe enters his second season as a wide receivers coach for Simpson in 2011.
 
A graduate of Iowa State University, Blythe played football for the Cyclones from 2004-07 and is the school’s all-time leader in career receptions (176), yards (3,096) and touchdown receptions (31). Blythe signed with the NFL’s New Orleans Saints as an undrafted free agent in 2008 and currently plays for the Arena Football League’s Iowa Barnstormers.

James Hoffman
Running Backs

The 2011 season marks Hoffman's fifth as an assistant on the Simpson football staff, where he coaches the running backs. Hoffman spent the last two seasons guiding the wide receivers.
 
Hoffman began coaching the Storm in 2006 as a student assistant. He lettered three times for Simpson from 2003-05 as a defensive back for the Storm.
 
James resides in Des Moines with his wife, Kasey (a former Simpson softball player), and daughters Kameryn and Kourtney.

Andrew Lansink
Tight Ends

Lansink enters his third season on the Simpson staff in 2011, where he coaches the tight ends.
 
Lansink lettered for the Storm football program from 2002-2005, starting for four years on the offensive line. The Arthur, Iowa native earned Second Team All-Iowa Conference honors as a senior in 2005.
 
Andrew and his wife, Lisa, reside in West Des Moines, Iowa.