North Dakota Fighting Hawks (MVFC) will have a new head coach in 2025 after Bubba Schweigert resigned from his position. Schweigert will remain with the UND athletics department in a different role.
Schweigert went 66-57 overall in 11 seasons with North Dakota from 2014 through 2024 and signed an extension in the offseason that would have kept him as head coach through 2027. Schweigert led UND to five FCS Playoff appearances and captured two conference titles twice in 2016 (Big Sky) and 2020-21 (MVFC). He also led the Fighting Hawks through multiple conference changes with the school moving from the Big Sky in 2017, navigating two years of FCS independent status in 2018 and 2019, and joining the MVFC in 2020.
Schweigert graduated from Jamestown College in North Dakota in 1985 and became the school’s defensive coordinator after graduation until 1988. He joined North Dakota the following year as a graduate assistant, later becoming the defensive backs coach from 1990 through 1996 and the defensive coordinator from 1997 through 2003.
He was named the head coach at NCAA Division II Minnesota Duluth in 2004, recording an overall record of 22-21 and 12-16 in the North Central Conference in four seasons. He won the NCC in 2005 and made his lone D-II playoff appearance the same year. Schweigert returned to the FCS in 2008 as the defensive coordinator for future MVFC member Southern Illinois. After six seasons with the Salukis, he took the head coaching post at UND.
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