Josh Poteracke is in his third year of coaching at American River and his 7th overall. Coach Poteracke coached varsity football and track at Petaluma High School for 4 years. In college, Coach Poteracke played safety and outside linebacker for UC. Davis in 2000 and 2001. The Aggies finished 3rd in the nation both years with a record of 22-4 with 12 wins in 2000. Prior to that he was a 2 year starter at Santa Rosa JC. Throughout college he also competed in track and field and he still competes in long jump. Coach Poteracke graduated from CSU, Sacramento where he completed his master’s degree at in Kinesiology with an emphasis in strength and conditioning.

Todd Denhalter- Special Teams Coordinator

This is Coach Denhalter’s first season with ARC. He graduated from Saugus H.S. in Saugus, CA in 1980 where he was a two-sport athlete, competing in football, swimming and diving. He played football his junior year where he averaging 41 yards per punt as a receiver and punter.

He coached Pop Warner football for 4 years before moving to the varsity level at Rio Linda High School coaching the Receivers, Quarterbacks, Outside Linebackers, Defensive Backs and the Punters/Kickers. During his 6 years at the varsity he coached 2 all CVC Receivers, 1 All CVC Linebacker and 1 Honorable Mention as a Punter. In 2004 Rio Linda won the CVC and CIF Section Championship for Div III.

Coach Denhalter was the Head Coach for the Center High School JR Cougar Midgets with a 10-0 season and runners up in the State Championship in 2005. In 2006 he was Offensive and Defensive line coach, Punters/Kickers coach as well as the Offensive Coordinator for the Center HS freshman football team. In 2007 became the Junior Varsity Head Coach and recorded an 8-2 overall record, and a 5-0 league record. He coached the Quarterbacks, Defensive Backs, Punters/Kickers, as well as being the Offensive Coordinator.

He is married to Laurie Denhalter and they have 5 children 3 of which played football all 4 years of High School as well as Pop Warner. Coach Denhalter says, “I am very Blessed to be able to coach at the Junior College Level as the Special Teams Coordinator, Kickers and Punters Coach.”

Jon Walker- Offensive Line/Recruiting Coordinator

Jon is entering his 3rd season as an assistant coach for the Beavers. This will be his 10th year coaching football, where he has specialized in offensive line play. Jon began his football career as an All-Metro Center at Bella Vista High School graduating in 1994. He went on to play at the University of San Diego from 1994-1996. At Center he received All Pioneer Conference honors in the 1995 and 1996 seasons. Jon was a member of the USD football team that helped transitioned the Toreros into a top 25 Div I-AA program. This is also Jon’s 2nd season as recruiting coordinator at ARC. He enjoys spending time getting to know high school student-athletes helping them in there goals of playing college football. Outside of ARC Jon works for Science Adventures where he runs a science day camp for children at Sacramento State. He enjoys golfing and fishing in the off season.

Brandon Babcock -Linebackers

Coach Brandon Babcock enters his first year of coaching at American River and 2nd over all after eleven years experience as a player. He attended El Dorado High School in Placerville, California. He graduated from El Dorado. He continued his education at American River and graduated with an AA degree in Liberal Arts while playing football under coach Haflich in the 2003 and 2004 seasons.  Coach Babcock received a scholarship to McPherson College in McPherson Kansas. He played two years for McPherson while earning his BS degree in Physical Education. In both of his 2 years he received NAIA Academic All American Award honors and in his senior year he was awarded Honorable Mention All Conference as a defensive end. Coach Babcock is currently attending CSU, Sacramento where he is working towards his master’s degree in Kinesiology with an emphasis in strength and conditioning.

Greg Meacham - Wide Receivers

This is Coach Meacham’s first year as Wide Receiver Coach at American River College. He attended Santa Clara University and graduated in 1978 with a Bachelors Degree in Marketing. He played DB and WR at Santa Clara 1974-1978.

Coach Meacham has 13 years coaching experience in SoCal and NorCal.  The last 6 years he served as position coach at both Varsity and JV Levels in various roles for WRs, RBs, DBs. and Special Teams at Woodcreek, Lincoln and Whitney High Schools.  He also served as Offensive Coordinator at Woodcreek and Whitney HS .

He resides in Roseville, CA with Wife –Athena, sons Matthew, 21 and Jonathan, 19.

Marc Rubalcaba – Running Backs

Coach Rubalcaba enters his first year of coaching for the American River Beavers. Marc graduated from CSU, Fresno in the spring of 2008. In the fall of 2008 coach Rubalcaba will start his Master’s program at CSU, Sacramento in Kinesiology. Coach Rubalcaba attended and played football for San Joaquin Delta College and received all League-Linebacker in 2004. After Delta, he received a partial scholarship to attend University of Redlands where he played one year at outside linebacker. Following Redlands, he continued his degree at Fresno State where he student coached for the Bulldogs for 1½ years. After graduating with his master’s degree, Coach Rubalcaba plans on being a head football coach at a 4 year university.