John Bainbridge

Assistant Football Coach - Offensive Guards & Centers

John Bainbridge will enter his sixth year of coaching at Carnegie Mellon in 2007.  The 2006 season marked his return to the Tartans staff after a two-year leave. From 2000-2003 Bainbridge coached the Tartans offensive tackles and tight ends. Since his return in 2006, he has coached the offensive centers and guards.
    
Bainbridge left the Tartans after the 2003 season to become the head coach at Southmoreland High School, his alma mater, where he served as the offensive coordinator in 1999. After his one-year stint as head coach in 2004 he went to Seton Hill University in 2005 as an assistant coach where he coached the offensive line.
    
From 1990-1998 he served as the head coach at Greater Latrobe High School. He has also served as the head coach at Canon-McMillan and Bishop McCort High Schools.
    
Bainbridge, a 1976 graduate of St. Vincent College, is employed as a social studies teacher at Latrobe Junior High School. He and his wife, Sue, have two daughters, Caitlin (22) and Maura (16), and reside in Latrobe.

Pat Johnston

Assistant Football Coach - Defensive Line

Pat Johnston is in his 13th year as Carnegie Mellon’s defensive line coach. Johnston, a former All-American at Westminster College, originally served as the Tartans’ defensive line coach from 1989-91 and 1994-96.
    
A North Hills native, Johnston graduated from Avalon High School where he was a four-year letterman. At Westminster, he was a four-year starter at offensive tackle and received honorable mention All-American honors. He was also named Pittsburgh Press All-District and All-NAIA District 18. As a senior in 1970 he helped lead the Titans to the NAIA national title. In 1983, he was named to the Westminster All-Time Football Team.
    
Johnston earned his bachelor’s degree in history education from Westminster in 1971. He received a master’s degree in education from Penn State University in 1974.
    
Johnston teaches history at Fox Chapel High School, where he has also coached football, wrestling and track.
    
He and his wife, Mary, have three children: Ryan, Sean and Shannon.

Donnie Militzer

Assistant Football Coach - Inside Linebackers

Donnie Militzer enters his second year on the Carnegie Mellon staff as the inside linebackers coach in 2007.
    
Militzer has four years of coaching experience on the high school level. He began coaching at Canevin Catholic High School where he spent three seasons coaching the secondary and wide receivers. After his three year stint at Canevin, he coached the secondary and running backs at Peters Township High School during the 2005 season.
    
Militzer graduated from Robert Morris in 2004 with an elementary education degree and is currently a fourth grade teacher at St. Simon & Jude in Greentree.
    
He currently resides in Dormont.

 Bo Ruffner

Assistant Football Coach - Running Backs

Bo Ruffner will begin his second season on the Carnegie Mellon staff coaching the running backs.
    
Ruffner began his coaching career under the Tartans’ offensive centers and guards coach, John Bainbridge, in Greater Latrobe School District. Ruffner continued coaching in the Greater Latrobe system until after the 1996 season. He then moved on as an assistant coach at Hempfield Area for five years where he was part of a staff that led the team to their first and only playoff win in school history. As an assistant for Hempfield he coached the wide receivers and defensive backs, and served as the offensive coordinator for two years. In 2003, he was promoted to head coach where he served a two-year stint.
   
Ruffner graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Education. He currently teaches Health and Physical Education at Hempfield Area High School.
   
He and his wife, Gina, have one child, Bo Daniel (7), and currently reside in Latrobe.

Jeff Simmons

Assistant Football Coach - Wide Receivers

   Entering his second season on the Carnegie Mellon staff is Jeff Simmons. Simmons will be coaching the wide receivers in 2007.
   
Simmons is the grandson of former Carnegie Mellon University football coach Chuck Klausing. Klausing later coached at Kiski Prep where Simmons was his quarterback, winning the Inter-Scholastic Prep School League his senior year. Simmons then played his collegiate career at Slippery Rock University from 1994-1997 as a quarterback.
   
Simmons and his grandfather, Klausing, continue to coach at the Team Klausing Wing-T Football Camps each summer throughout the United States. The camp promotes team skills, life skills and team leadership. Simmons has also co-authored two books with his grandfather.
   
Simmons’ coaching resume includes a high school quarterback and defensive secondary coach at Kiski Prep, quarterback coach at Seneca Valley, Gateway and most recently at Shaler High School.
   
Simmons currently sells football field equipment for Gilman Gear. He and his wife, Colleen, reside in Penn Hills.

Bernie Storer

Assistant Football Coach - Offensive Tackles & Tight Ends

Bernie Storer enters his fourth season on the Carnegie Mellon staff as the offensive tackles and tight ends coach.
   
His coaching resume includes several stops at area high schools, including a three-year stint as head coach at Burrell and six-year tenure as the Bethel Park Head Coach. Storer, who also served as an assistant at Wilkinsburg, Woodland Hills and Penn Hills High Schools, spent eight seasons as an assistant on Greg Gattuso’s staff at Duquesne before taking a one-year hiatus and then joining Carnegie Mellon.
   
Storer graduated from Georgetown (Ky.) College in 1974 and is currently an officer for juvenile court in Allegheny County.
   
He has one son, Bernie II, and resides in Wilkinsburg.