Head Football Coach, US Naval Academy

Niumatalolo, age 42, is the 38th head football coach in Naval Academy history. He is the second Polynesian head coach in NCAA Division IA history and the first Samoan collegiate head coach on any level.

Niumatalolo has had two coaching stints at the Naval Academy for a combined 10 seasons, including the last six where he served as assistant head coach and offensive line coach.

Niumatalolo has been an integral part of a staff that has brought the Midshipmen back into the national spotlight with a 43-20 (.683) record over the last five years and his work with the offense has helped the Mids lead the nation in rushing in four of the last five years, including each of the past three seasons, a first in NCAA history.

The 2007 season was one for the record books as the Midshipmen posted an 8-5 record, won a school-record fifth-consecutive Commander-In-Chief's Trophy, appeared in a school-record fifth-straight bowl game (Pointsettia Bowl, which was Niumatalolo's first game as a head coach), became the first team in NCAA history to lead the nation in rushing three-consecutive years (rushing for a school-record 348.8 yards per contest) and defeated Notre Dame for the first time since 1963.

In 2006, Navy averaged a then school-record 327.0 yards per contest. One of Niumatalolo's pupils, Antron Harper, was named to the ESPN.Com All-Bowl Team for the second-straight year as the Mids played in the Meineke Car Care Bowl against Boston College.

Niumatalolo helped develop an offensive line that, despite having just one returning starter, paved the way for the nation's best rushing offense (318.7 yards per contest) in 2005 as Navy went to a bowl game for a third-straight year, won a second-straight bowl game and won the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy.

In 2004, Niumatalolo's efforts helped an offensive line that was hampered by injuries all year to perform well enough for the Midshipmen to finish third in the country in rushing (289.5), win a school-record tying 10 games (the most wins since 1905), go to back-to-back bowl games for the second time in school history, win the Emerald Bowl and win the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy.

Navy's offensive line was instrumental in the NCAA-record 26-play, 94-yard, 14:26 epic drive in the 2004 Emerald Bowl. Offensive guard August Roitsch was named to the Sports Illustrated All-Bowl Team, while the entire starting offensive line was selected to the College Football News All-Bowl Team. Despite a lack of experience up front, the Mids led the nation in rushing (323.2 yards per contest) in 2003 and set seven school records as Navy went 8-5, won the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy and earned a berth in the Houston Bowl.

In 2002, the Navy offensive line helped the Mids to the third-best rushing average in the country (270.75).

Niumatalolo was also an assistant at Navy from 1995-98, serving as the offensive coordinator in 1997 and 1998.

A 1989 graduate of Hawai'i, Niumatalolo lettered three years as a quarterback and led the Rainbows to their first postseason bowl appearance in 1989.

A native of Laie', Hawai'i, Niumatalolo and his wife, Barbara, have three children, Alexcia (18), who attends the University of Maryland and is a sophomore on the women's lacrosse team, Va'a (15) and Ali'i (10).