The University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics
Football
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- Secondary
Brent Vieselmeyer enters his second season as UAB’s secondary coach in 2026.
Vieselmeyer joined the Blazers in January 2025 and brought more than 25 years of coaching experience to Birmingham, including seven seasons in the National Football League with Washington and Oakland. In his first season at UAB, he oversaw a secondary that featured a mix of veteran leadership and emerging talent while implementing a new defensive system.
Prior to arriving at UAB, Vieselmeyer spent four seasons with the Washington Commanders from 2020-23. He served as assistant secondary coach from 2020-22 before being promoted to secondary coach in 2023. During his tenure, Washington consistently ranked among the NFL’s top defensive units and advanced to the postseason in 2020.
Before Washington, Vieselmeyer spent three seasons with the Oakland Raiders from 2015-17, serving as assistant linebackers coach in 2015 and 2016 before being promoted to safeties coach in 2017.
Between NFL stops, Vieselmeyer served as an offensive analyst at Kansas in 2018 before becoming head coach at Santa Margarita Catholic High School in Orange County, Calif., in 2019.
Vieselmeyer began his coaching career as defensive coordinator at Orange Lutheran High School from 1999-2006 before building one of the nation’s premier high school football programs at Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, Colo. Serving as head coach from 2007-12, he guided Valor Christian to four consecutive Colorado state championships from 2009-12 and earned Denver Post Coach of the Year honors three times.
He then helped launch the football program at Houston Baptist University as defensive coordinator from 2013-14 before moving to the NFL with the Raiders.
A native of Wisconsin, Vieselmeyer played linebacker at Concordia University Wisconsin and graduated in 1999 with a degree in education. He later earned a master’s degree in educational administration from the University of Phoenix in 2005.
Vieselmeyer and his wife, Marnie, have two daughters, Payton and Quinn.
