Joe Ashfield

The 2017 season marks the seventh overall on The Farm for Joe Ashfield, who returned to the Stanford coaching staff in 2013 as an offensive assistant.

Ashfield is in his second stint with the Cardinal after spending the 2005 and 2006 seasons as an offensive assistant.

Ashfield’s duties include assisting with practice coverage, charting plays, statistical analysis and preparing opponent scouting reports for the offensive staff.

In 2006, Ashfield was a graduate assistant for the Stanford program, assisting tight ends and the offensive line with game day responsibilities centered on personnel substitutions and charting plays.

Ashfield spent the 2007 season as the quarterbacks and wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator at Simpson College (Iowa). From 2008-10, Ashfield was the receivers coach at Loras College (Iowa). He was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at New Mexico Military Institute from 2011-12, directing the nation’s third-ranked offensive team at better than 488 yards of offense per game.

Ashfield was a graduate assistant coach in 2004 at Delta State (Miss.), where he coached tight ends and assisted the offensive coordinator with the offensive line. He earned his master’s degree in health, physical education and recreation from the school in 2005.

Ashfield graduated magna cum laude in 2000 from St. John’s (Minn.) with a bachelor’s degree in English and communication arts. He played quarterback for two seasons at St. John’s before playing in the German Football League in 2001 for the Schwaebisch Hall Unicorns.

Ashfield coached in New Zealand for three years, where he was the head coach and director of coaching for the North Harbour Pride -- a semi-pro team in Auckland -- from 2001-04. Ashfield was the head coach of the New Zealand National Team in 2004.