Skyler Ridley - Football Coach - Weber State University Athletics

Skyler Ridley

Title:
Assistant Coach / Tight Ends
Email:
skylerridley@weber.edu

Skyler Ridley is entering his ninth season in 2024 on the staff with the Weber State football program Weber State and his sixth year as an assistant coach with the Wildcats. He is in his fourth season as the Special Teams Coordinator and also coaches the Wildcat wide receivers.

After three seasons (2016-18) as a graduate assistant coach, Ridley was named an assistant coach in March 2019 and coached the Wildcat tight ends for three seasons.

Prior to the 2021 season, he was elevated to the Special Teams Coordinator, in addition to coaching tight ends. In 2022, he began coaching the wide receivers.

In his time with the Wildcats, Ridley has been a part of nine-straight winning seasons, four Big Sky Championships, and six trips to the FCS Playoffs. Weber State has also finished the season in the top 10 in the nation five times.

Under Ridley, the Wildcats have had tremendous success on special teams, especially in kickoff returns. During the 2022 season, Ridley coached Abraham Williams to consensus All-America honors as he broke the Big Sky record with four 100-yard kickoff return touchdowns during the season. He was the only player in all of NCAA football (all Divisions) to have more than two kickoff return touchdowns and he set an NCAA record with all four returns being 100 yards.

In 2021, he coached Rashid Shaheed who earned All-America honors as a kick returner and finished his career as the FCS all-time leader with seven kickoff return touchdowns.

In 2022, Ridley helped lead WSU to another 10-win season, including an FBS win over Utah State. He also coached Ty MacPherson to All-Big Sky second-team honors in 2022 and Hayden Meacham to third-team honors in 2021.

During the spring 2021 season, Weber State finished 5-1 and captured its fourth straight conference title, including the first outright title in school history with a perfect 5-0 Big Sky record. The Wildcats were ranked as high as second in the nation during the season, the highest ranking in school history.

He spent three seasons (2016-18) as a graduate assistant at Weber State. In his role, he has worked on the offensive ball and assisted the offensive coaches in all areas of the program.

Ridley is a native of Murrieta, California, and graduated from Murrieta Valley High School. He then played four years of football at BYU from 2010-13.

He lettered in each of his last two seasons at BYU and served as a team captain as a senior in 2013. He appeared in 26 games in his career with the Cougars and had 60 catches for 659 yards and three touchdowns. He had a career-high eight catches for 106 yards and caught the game-winning touchdown in BYU’s win at Houston in 2013.

He graduated from BYU in Psychology in 2014. He earned his master’s degree in Professional Communication at Weber State in December 2017.

He started his coaching career at Bountiful High School where he coached the wide receivers and defensive backs in 2014 and 2015.

Ridley and his wife Jasmine were married in 2012. The couple has three children, Rowen, Hazel, and Crew.