Fresno State Athletics
Football
- Title:
- Graduate Assistant (Defense)
Overton Spence, Jr., is in his second season as a graduate assistant coach for the Fresno State football team. He assists in coaching the special teams and works with the inside linebackers for the Bulldogs.
Spence, a native of Jacksonville, Fla. and graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, spent the last eight years as an active procurement officer in the Air Force.
As a player at Air Force, which he was at the Academy from 2001-06, Spence played both inside and outside linebacker for the Falcons. Throughout his career, he played in several defensive schemes, including the same 3-4 defense that Fresno State currently runs. As a linebacker in 2005, he recorded 52 tackles, 7.0 tackles for a loss, 2.0 sacks and one fumble recovery.
In his eight years of active duty, Spence spent time at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota, was back at the Academy teaching hand-to-hand combat and was a contract negotiator for the Space and Missile Systems Center at the Los Angeles Air Force Base supporting a $10 billion space portfolio.
He was deployed to Iraq in 2011 to teach hand-to-hand combat and was also deployed to Afghanistan from November 2013 through April 2014 working as a regional contracting officer in eastern Afghanistan.
Spence, who is expecting a master’s degree in sports management from the American Military University is also enrolled at Fresno State and working towards a master’s in curriculum and instruction.
