Mitch Dolinar serves as a Defensive Analyst for UNLV, assisting with the Rebel defensive line.
He returned to his hometown of Las Vegas after serving one season in the same role at Purdue in the Big Ten Conference in 2025 where he worked with the linebackers.
From May 2023 to January 2025, Dolinar was a defensive graduate intern at UNLV as the Rebels earned back-to-back Mountain West Championship appearances and made a pair of bowl trips, including winning the 2024 LA Bowl over Cal. While earning his master's degree in intercollegiate and professional sport management from the school, he assisted with the Scarlet & Gray safeties in 2024 and the linebackers in '23.
Before originally moving back to the Silver State, Dolinar was an intern in the athletics department at Gallaudet University, working with the football head coach and the strength and conditioning coach. He previously played offensive line for the Bison, earning Second Team All-ECFC. Also a former member of the Gallaudet baseball team, he is a 2022 graduate of the NCAA Div. III school located in Washington, D.C., which is the nation’s only deaf and hard of hearing university.
Before his college career, Dolinar was a four-sport letterman at Las Vegas' Lake Mead Christian Academy, competing in football, baseball, basketball and golf for the Eagles.
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