University of Connecticut Athletics
Football
- Title:
- Defensive Quality Control Coach
- Email:
- kyle.r.weiss@uconn.edu
Kyle Weiss completed his first season as the defensive quality control coach for the UConn football team in 2018. He was promoted to running backs coach on February 8, 2019.
In 2019 junior running back Kevin Mensah rushed for over 1,000 yards for the second time in his career and finished sixth in the American Conference with 1,013 yards on the ground. Graduate transfer Art Thompkins totaled over 1400 all-purpose yards during the 2019 campaign.  Mensah is currently sixth on UConn's all-time rushing yards list. Â
Weiss joined UConn after spending the last three years with the UCLA football team. He served as a graduate assistant on the defensive side of the ball until late in the season when he moved into a linebackers coach role for the 2017 Cactus Bowl.
Weiss spent one season as offensive quality control coach in 2016 after filling the role of recruiting and offensive assistant during the 2015 season.
Prior to working at UCLA, Weiss was an assistant football and baseball coach at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. Weiss spent three seasons at Pomona working as a quarterbacks coach (2014), director of operations (2014), video coordinator (2014), wide receiver coach (2012-2013) and kicking coach (2012-2013).
Before pursuing a career in coaching, Weiss played four seasons at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. while earning his bachelor’s degree in earth and environmental science. Weiss played wide receiver and punter, leading the team in receptions in 2010 and earned Second Team All-Conference honors as a punter.
His grandfather, Bob, was an assistant football coach at UConn from 1969-72. Weiss received his master’s degree in education from Arizona State in 2015 and married the former Jenna Waters in February, 2019.
