On Monday, February 16, North Dakota State football announced the addition of Eric Amoako as the program’s next Cornerbacks Coach.
Amoako is a native of Arlington, Texas and played collegiate football from 2012-16. He spent the 2012 and 2013 seasons at Oregon before transferring to Houston Christian from 2014-15. He concluded his collegiate playing career at the University of Minnesota in the 2016 season.
He has been coaching since 2017 beginning his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Augsburg in Minneapolis in the spring of 2017. Amoako then went to the high school coaching ranks from 2017-18, serving as a secondary coach at Arlington Sequin High School. He jumped backed into the collegiate coaching ranks in 2019 as a secondary coach at De Anza College in California. He rose to coaching in Division I beginning in 2020 as a defensive graduate assistant at Wyoming, where he spent two seasons. Then in 2022 he served a a graduate defensive assistant at Washington. The 2023 season saw him as the Baylor defensive analyst. The 2023 and 2024 seasons he was the cornerbacks coach at FCS Campbell.
Amoako replaces Lewis Walker, who returned to NDSU in January before being hired at BYU in February. The position came open in December when Will Johnson was hired by Central Florida after two seasons at NDSU.
