Football
Niekamp, Travis
Travis Niekamp
- Title:
- Special Teams Coordinator/Linebackers
- Email:
- travis.niekamp@mso.umt.edu
- Phone:
- 243.2969
TWITTER - @CoachNiekamp
Travis Niekamp (pronounced: NEE-kamp) enters his second season at Montana in 2017 as the Grizzlies’ special teams coordinator and linebackers coach. He joined head coach Bob Stitt’s staff in January of 2016, coming to Missoula from the University of Louisiana-Monroe.
In his first season with Montana, Niekamp coached linebacker Josh Buss, who finished the 2016 season as Montana’s leading tackler, posting 20 tackles for loss, a national best among sophomores, earning him a place on the HERO Sports FCS Sophomore Defensive All-America first team.
Niekamp served as Louisiana-Monroe’s co-defensive coordinator in 2015, as well as the Warhawks’ special teams coordinator and linebackers coach from 2013-2015. In 2012, Niekamp served as ULM’s tight ends coach.
No stranger to the Northwest, Coach Niekamp served as linebackers coach at Washington State from 2007-2011 in addition to serving as the Cougars' director of football development. Prior to his time in Pullman, he was the linebackers coach/special teams coordinator at Eastern Washington from 2004-2007.
Before coaching at Eastern Washington, Niekamp served as tight ends coach at the United State Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., from 1999 - 2003, and outside linebacker coach, safeties coach and defensive tackles coach at his alma mater, Illinois State University in 1998 and 1999.
A native of Stevens Point, Wis., Niekamp and his wife, Tracy, have three children -- Tye Dalton, Dexter Kole and Brooke Ryan.
Travis Niekamp (pronounced: NEE-kamp) enters his second season at Montana in 2017 as the Grizzlies’ special teams coordinator and linebackers coach. He joined head coach Bob Stitt’s staff in January of 2016, coming to Missoula from the University of Louisiana-Monroe.
In his first season with Montana, Niekamp coached linebacker Josh Buss, who finished the 2016 season as Montana’s leading tackler, posting 20 tackles for loss, a national best among sophomores, earning him a place on the HERO Sports FCS Sophomore Defensive All-America first team.
Niekamp served as Louisiana-Monroe’s co-defensive coordinator in 2015, as well as the Warhawks’ special teams coordinator and linebackers coach from 2013-2015. In 2012, Niekamp served as ULM’s tight ends coach.
No stranger to the Northwest, Coach Niekamp served as linebackers coach at Washington State from 2007-2011 in addition to serving as the Cougars' director of football development. Prior to his time in Pullman, he was the linebackers coach/special teams coordinator at Eastern Washington from 2004-2007.
Before coaching at Eastern Washington, Niekamp served as tight ends coach at the United State Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., from 1999 - 2003, and outside linebacker coach, safeties coach and defensive tackles coach at his alma mater, Illinois State University in 1998 and 1999.
A native of Stevens Point, Wis., Niekamp and his wife, Tracy, have three children -- Tye Dalton, Dexter Kole and Brooke Ryan.
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