Heath Pulver returns to Eastern Washington football to guide tight ends and special teams

Heath Pulver will return to Eastern Washington and serve as tight ends coach and special teams coordinator, Eastern head coach Aaron Best announced on Wednesday.

Most recently, Pulver had coaching stints at Colorado State and Cal where he worked for a pair of ex-Eagles coaches. Pulver is a graduate of both Eastern and University High School.

“For lots of reasons we are excited to get Heath back to Cheney and close to his hometown,” said new Eastern head coach Aaron Best via press release.

“It is always an added bonus that every special teams unit hears one voice from one coach, and Heath is going to be that guy. His passion for special teams has been evident since his time here at EWU, and now he gets to display his own work from both a special teams and tight ends perspective.”

Pulver was at Cal with former Eagles head coach Beau Baldwin since April as an offensive quality control coach. Previously, he spent five seasons at Colorado State working with special teams, including the 2012-14 seasons under former Eagles assistant coach Jim McElwain, who is now head coach at Florida.

Before that, Pulver was tight ends coach and special teams assistant for the Eagles in the 2010 and 2011 seasons, and two additional years as student assistant working with the defense.