Ronnie Sanders is in his third year as the program coordinator for recruiting for the Southern Miss football program. In his position, he is responsible for all administrative aspects of the recruiting process, including creating and maintaining databases, coordinating the flow of recruiting correspondence, maintaining recruiting files for NCAA documentation, coordinating all documentation for official and unofficial visits, producing recruiting materials used by the coaching staff, maintaining and updating CoachBower.com and SouthernMissFootballCamp.com, overseeing the complimentary ticket process for high school coaches and prospects, securing academic records for prospects and directing the football camps and clinics.
Sanders came to Southern Miss in 2005 after spending three years at Florida, serving one year (2004-05) as the offensive game analysis coordinator and assistant to the head football coach and two years (2002-04) as a graduate intern working with recruiting, special teams and handling administrative duties for the head coach. His responsibilities included creating video cutups, defense and self scouting reports and producing graphic packages for reports and presentations. He also assisted with various aspects in the video department, handled various media requests for the coaching staff, assisted with the organization of recruiting and camps and clinics, handled administrative duties for the head coach and managed all areas relating to and dealing with the special teams unit.
He spent one year at LSU (2000-01) as the graduate assistant for recruiting and football operations. His responsibilities included updating recruiting boards, tracking recruiting news and information, updating and maintaining the recruiting film library, assisting with football camps and clinics, recruiting weekends and with the development of the head coaches' website.
Sanders worked three years at Auburn, one year as the recruiting assistant (1998-98) and the previous two years (1996-98) as a student assistant for recruiting and football operations. He assisted with the official visit process, maintaining the film library, gathering information about each recruit from newspaper articles and via the internet and coordinating football camps and clinics and the walk-on program.
Sanders spent two summers as a training camp intern in the NFL, one with the Baltimore Ravens (1998) and one with the Washington Redskins (1999), assisting with football operations, the equipment room and special teams.
He also spent one summer in Washington, D.C. as an intern for U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (1995) and worked two presidential nominating conventions (San Diego 1996 and Philadelphia 2000). In addition, he also worked as a fundraiser for Shelby’s political action committee (1998), in the office of U.S. Congressman Spencer Bachus (2001) and has volunteered in numerous political campaigns.
Sanders, a native of Fort Payne, Ala., earned his bachelor's degree in political science from Auburn University in 1998 and is married to the former Rebecca Russell of Holland, Penn.
