Orange Crush Football Camps
Camp Staff
Chris Bessler
Assistant Coach - 7th Season
Chris Bessler joined the Tiger staff in February 2007 and serves as the defensive coordinator and inside linebacker coach. Bessler graduated from Doane in 1995. He was a three-sport athlete, participating in football, track and baseball. He was named NIAC all-conference as a linebacker.
Bessler got his start in coaching as a student coach at Doane. After graduation, he was named head coach at Cozad High School and stayed there until 2000. Chris went on to coach at Northern State (S.D.) while earning his Master’s Degree in Education and then as a defensive line coach at Augustana College (Ill.). He resides in Crete with his wife, Deborah, and their four children, Cale, Reagan, Logan & Macey.
Grant Mollring
Assistant Coach - 4th Season
Grant Mollring joined the Doane staff in January 2010 and serves as the Offensive Coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Mollring came to Doane after serving as the wide receivers coach at the University of Nebraska-Kearney from 2008-09. He was a graduate assistant for the Lopers program in 2007 and worked with the running backs. Mollring’s previous football coaching stint was four years as an assistant at Kearney High School. He served as head basketball coach and assistant track coach at Eustis-Farnam High School while working as a physical education teach at EFHS.
Mollring is a graduate of Nebraska-Kearney (‘03) and earned a degree in physical education and western civilizations. In 2009, he earned his Master’s Degree in physical education. He and his wife, Mandi, have a son, Turner.
Greg Alexander
Assistant Coach - 2nd Season
Greg Alexander joined the Tiger coaching staff in 2012 as the wide receivers coach. Prior to Doane, he coached at Casa Grande High School for two seasons in California.
Alexander played football and was the starting quarterback at the University of Hawai'i in 2008 & 2009. He also played two seasons at Santa Rosa Junior College. In his senior year at Hawai'i, he was the nation's leader in total offense (446.0 yd/gm) through four games before a knee-injury ended his season. He earned WAC Offensive Player-of-the-Week honors twice in his two seasons at Hawai'i.
He graduated from Hawai'i with a bachlor's degree in history.
Mike Dixon
Assistant Coach - 7th Season
Michael Dixon joined the Tiger coaching staff in 2007. He serves as the Tiger’s wide receivers coach. Dixon’s previous coaching experience came as the wide receivers and defensive backs coach at Lincoln Northeast High School. He also served as the head coach for the Lincoln Capitals from 2004-05 and as an intern of football operations in 2006. Dixon is a graduate of Greenville College.
Michael joined Doane College as a Safety Administrator in August 2008. He lives in Crete with his wife, Amy.
Ray Henning
Assistant Coach - 4th Season
Ray Henning joined the Tiger staff in 2010. Henning has 36 years of high school coaching experience, serving as head coach at Norris High School for 15 years and as an assistant at Lincoln High School for 11 years.
He played college football at Doane from 1973-76 and earned all-conference honors in three seasons and was an honorable mention All-American. He graduated in 1977 and earned a Master’s Degree from Nebraska-Lincoln.
He lives in Roca with his wife Marcia. They have three children, Drew (and Anne), Joy (and Tyler) Moore, and T.J.
Rodney Boykin
Assistant Coach - 3rd Season
Rodney Boykin joined the Tiger coaching staff in Fall 2011. He comes to Doane after three years with Concordia University.
Prior to joining the college ranks, Boykin had three stops at the high school level. He started at Leesville Road HS in North Carolina where he spent seven years. He moved to Chapel Hill HS for two years before joining the Lincoln North Star HS staff the season before going to Concordia.
Boykin played Arena Football with four teams, including the Lincoln Lightning and Omaha Beef. He resides in Lincoln and has a son, Xavier.
Jeff Mollring
Assistant Coach - 4th Season
Jeff Mollring joined the Tiger coaching ranks in fall 2011 and will assist primarily during fall camp. A 1974 Doane graduate, Jeff earned All-NIAC and All-District 11 honors in three different seasons. He was also the Philip Becker Award recipient in 1974.
Mollring is now retired but has 31 years of high school coaching background. He has coached at McCook, Cambridge, Gothenburg and Amherst high schools.
He and his wife, Sue Ann, have three children, Scott, Grant and Jay. Grant is the Offensive Coordinator for the Tigers. Jeff and Sue Ann live in McCook.
Brian Luera
Assistant Coach - 3rd Season
Brian Luera joined the Tiger coaching staff in 2011. Luera played for the Tigers from 2007-10 as a defensive back. He finished his career with four interceptions and 94 total tackles.
Ryan Gruntorad
Assistant Coach - 2nd Season
Ryan Gruntorad joined the Tiger staff in 2012 and assists with the defense. He graduated in May 2012 and was a linebacker for the Tigers.
Josh Littrell
Assistant Coach - 1st Season
Josh Littrell joined the Tiger coaching staff in 2013. He joins the Tigers from Earl Warren High School in Texas where he was the Offensive Coordinator. Littrell has been coaching since 2000 when he started at Emporia State University as a student coach.
He has also had coaching stops at Southern Illinois University and Hutchinson Community College along with Del Rio High School in Texas. Littrell has coached seven players who went on to play NCAA Division I football. His collegiate playing days started at Garden City Community College and concluded at Emporia State.
Josh and his wife, Renae (Doane softball coach), have two boys, Cooper and Max.
Bruce Reed
Assistant Coach - 1st Season
Bruce Reed joined the Tiger staff in 2013. He brings a wealth of coaching experience to Doane from the high school level. Prior to joining the Tiger staff, he served as an assistant coach at Millard North High School where the Mustangs won four state championships. He served as Head Coach at Lincoln Northeast from 1986-93.
Reed was a four-year starter in college at Nebraska Wesleyan where he earned all-conference honors on three ocassions. He also played baseball and was all-conference all four years at first base.
He and his wife, Mindy, have three children, Stephanie, Walter and Molly. They also have one grand child, Riley.
Dennis McElravy
Manager - 48th Season
Dennis McElravy has been taking care of the Tigers as an equipment manager for several decades. He resides in Crete with his wife, Marilyn - who helped start the Tiger post-game gathering after home games. They have three children and nine grand-children.
