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graduate assistant coach at Northwest Missouri State, Matt Karleskint is in his
second season at Missouri Southern. With the Lions, Karleskint serves as
co-offensive coordinator and also coaches the offensive backfield. During his stay at Northwest Missouri State, Karleskint helped the Bearcats to a 22-6 combined record and two berths in NCAA Division II postseason play. Northwest advanced to the NCAA-II championship game in 2005, finishing as national runner-up to Grand Valley State. Karleskint worked with running backs at Northwest Missouri State and coached a 1000-yard rusher, in Xavier Omon, both seasons with the Bearcats. In 2004, NWMSU ranked second in the MIAA in rushing offense, averaging 197.4 yards per game over the entire 13-game schedule. In 2005, the Bearcats averaged 125.7 rushing yards per game with 22 rushing touchdowns. Omon compiled more than 1800 all-purpose yards in 2005, and had nearly 1700 all-purpose yards in 2004. In 2002-04, Karleskint was the wide receivers/quarterbacks coach at Ottawa (Kan.) University. During his tenure, Ottawa was conference champion and the No. 5 scoring offense in NAIA in 2003. Karleskint was a two-time all-conference quarterback at Kansas Wesleyan University. A native of Fort Scott, Kan., he was a three-sport student-athlete at Fort Scott High School. He later played quarterback at Fort Scott Community College before transferring to KWU for his final two seasons. Karleskint earned a bachelor's degree in health, physical education and recreation from KWU in 2001. He earned a master's degree in athletic administration from Northwest Missouri State in 2005.
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