During his Thursday press conference, Washington Huskies star running back Jonah Coleman, like his teammate Denzel Boston, preached loyalty to coach Jedd Fisch’s program.
“I came to the University of Washington because I was committed to the university and obviously the coaches,” he said. “I wouldn’t trade it for the world, my decision coming here.”
And while Coleman, who earned All-Big Ten Third Team honors after surpassing 1,000 yards for the first time in his career and scored 10 touchdowns in his first campaign with the Huskies is expected to be a big part of Fisch’s offense on the field, his plans off it are just as important.
“I want to get my degree,” he said. “That’s something that I want to be the first to do in my family, is get a college degree. That’s something I was committed to, before even football. Obviously, being able to have a full offseason, things like that…the way we came in [after Fisch took over for Kalen DeBoer in January] it was all late and scrambling around. You want to leave a place better than you found it. I feel like there’s still more for us to do and go get.”
Coleman, who is studying education with an option for sports management, earned a 4.0 GPA in his first quarter in Seattle and takes great pride in his academics and everything else he does.
“If I say I’m all in, I’m all in. There’s no 95 percent, 99 percent. It’s 100 percent…I’m here to stay at Washington, and that’s what it’s always been.”