Football
- Title:
- Offensive Quality Control Assistant
Diego Ortiz enters his seventh season on the Texas Tech staff and his fifth as a quality control assistant where he assists with game preparations for the Red Raider offense, specifically the running back room.
Ortiz has been a staple on the Texas Tech staff, serving under three different head coaches now during his tenure. He’s worked in various roles during that time after beginning as a recruiting and operations intern in 2016 before moving into a graduate assistant role with the running backs for the 2017-18 seasons. Ortiz was promoted to a quality control assistant beginning with the 2019 campaign.
Over his career, Ortiz has been among the most-trusted members of the football staff as his duties have involved weekly video breakdowns, updating recruiting profile tapes, tracking productivity measurements and recruit evaluations. He has worked with both the offensive staff and as a personnel assistant throughout his time as a Red Raider.
Prior to his time with the football program, Ortiz worked at the Marsha Sharp Center for Student-Athletes as a graduate assistant advisor. He worked closely with freshmen and at-risk student-athletes of the Red Raider track & field, volleyball and women’s tennis programs, while producing the annual academic report for the entire athletic department.
Ortiz graduated with a master’s in science and sport management from Texas Tech in May 2018, becoming the first person of Mexican nationality to graduate from the program. He earned his bachelor’s degree in international trade relations from Universidad Intercontinental in Mexico City, where he won the yearly “Letter of Merit” for obtaining the highest GPA of the class four years in a row.
