Elon University Athletics

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Recruiting Areas:

• North Carolina (Piedmont Triad / Alamance)
• Maryland / DC
• Philadelphia, Delaware, New York

Milo Austin was hired in January of 2022 as the special teams coordinator and outside linebackers coach at Elon. In Feb. of 2025, he moved over to the cornerbacks while remaining the special teams coordinator.

He joined the Phoenix after spending a year as the special teams coordinator and cornerbacks coach at Texas Southern. Prior to that, he was special teams coordinator and wide receiver coach at Delaware State for the 2019 and 2020 campaigns. He has spent time as well at Morehead State (associate head coach/special teams coordinator/wide receivers), Glenville State (running backs/kickoff return), Cincinnati (director of player development), Hampton (running backs/kickoff return) and Midwestern State (running backs/kickoff return). He has also held positions with the St. Louis Rams, and Lanphier (Ill.) High School.
 
In 2022, Austin oversaw one of the best special teams units in the country, highlighted by All-American kicker Skyler Davis. Davis was a consensus first team All-American and tied the FCS record by making seven 50-yard field goals in one season. He was 18-of-22 overall, including 12-of-14 from 40+ yards. As well, punter Jeff Yurk averaged 44.1 yards per punt, fifth-best in the country, and was named a HERO Sports Sophomore All-American. Both Davis and Yurk earned all-conference nods.
 
Elon also blocked two field goal attempts in 2022 and ranked tenth in net punting average at 39.1 yards. Elon’s punt return defense allowed just 5.9 yards per return, while offensively Elon averaged 7.9 yards per punt return.
 
As outside linebackers coach, Austin mentored All-American Marcus Hillman to a breakout season. Hillman had 18.5 tackles for loss and 8.5 sacks after compiling just 12.5 TFL and 4.5 sacks prior to the 2022 season. He finished fourth in the voting for the Buck Buchanan Award, given to the best defensive player in the country at the FCS level. Austin’s unit helped the Elon defense rank 19^th in scoring defense, seventh in fumbles recovered and 13^th in quarterback sacks. In Elon’s eight victories, the defense allowed just 16 second-half points – one touchdown and three field goals.  
 
In 2023, Elon’s special teams continued to positively impact games. True freshman kicker Jack Berkowitz was No. 18 nationally in field goal percentage (80 percent), while making 1.2 field goals per game, 21^st in the country. Punter Kyle Romenick was No. 25 in punting average. In the return game, Chandler Brayboy was tenth nationally at 26.9 yards per kick return and Bo Sanders was No. 26 in punt return average at 7.8 per game. Elon did not allow a blocked punt and ranked No. 23 nationally in net punting average.

Even before his time at Elon, Austin’s special teams units have regularly ranked among the nation’s best. During the fall, his Texas Southern units ranked in the top 25 in punt return coverage, as well as third in the conference in punt returns. At Delaware State, Austin made an immediate impact with DSU’s special teams as the Hornets ranked fourth or higher in four statistical categories in 2019. Placekicker Jose Romo-Martinez earned second team All-MEAC honors as a result while Jordan Hannah ranked second in the MEAC in kick return average with 23.3 yards per return.  
 
During the historic spring 2021 campaign, Austin’s units once again performed at a high level as DSU blocked three punts with one returned for a touchdown. Romo-Martinez, who was also a preseason All-MEAC honoree, performed double duty as he averaged nearly 40 yards per punt in addition to nailing two field goals of 40-plus yards. Off the field, Austin represented DSU well as a high-profile speaker at the 2021 Virtual American Football Coaches Association Convention.
 
Austin joined the Delaware State football staff in March 2019 after three seasons at Morehead State in Kentucky. While at Morehead, he served as associate head coach (wide receivers) as well as co-special teams coordinator. He coached the slot receivers in 2015 and 2016. 
 
In 2015 and 2016, he coached Jake Raymond, an All-PFL slot receiver who became the all-time leading receiver at Morehead State and the career leader in catches in the PFL. 
 
His work with the receivers and special teams didn’t go unnoticed as Austin was selected as the 2018 AFCA Football Championship Subdivision Assistant Coach of the Year in recognition of his commitment to student-athletes, community service, contributions to the AFCA and coaching excellence. 
 
Austin founded and ran the Full Focus Foundation, a youth life skills development program. He completed the Bill Walsh Minority Internship program with the Los Angeles Chargers in 2018 and St. Louis Rams in the summer of 2013, served as director of the football program at Camp Winadu in Massachusetts in the summer of 2012 and was the offensive and special teams coordinator at Lanphier High School during the 2011 season. 
 
Austin began his playing career as a cornerback at Division III Salisbury, where he was named Atlantic Central Football Conference Freshman of the Year in 2001. He was also the Eastern College Athletic Conference Eastern Region Freshman of the Year. 
 
He finished his career at West Virginia, where he was a wide receiver on the 2004 Big East Conference Championship team. 
 
Austin earned his bachelor's degree in athletic coaching education from West Virginia in 2006. He received his master’s in sport administration in Dec. of 2020. 
 
Austin is married to Erica and he has two daughters, Nevaeh and Noa.
 

Coaching Experience
2006-07	Running Backs/Kickoff Return, Midwestern State
2008-09	Running Backs/Kickoff Return, Hampton
2010-11	Director of Player Development, Cincinnati
2012-14	Running Backs/Kickoff Return, Glenville State
2015-18	Associate Head Coach/Special Teams Coordinator, Wide Receivers, Morehead State
2019-20	Special Teams Coordinator/Wide Receivers, Delaware State
2021	Special Teams Coordinator/Cornerbacks, Texas Southern
2022-24	Special Teams Coordinator/Outside Linebackers, Elon
2025-present	Special Teams Coordinator/Cornerbacks, Elon