UCF football coach Gus Malzahn OK after car crash in Auburn

UCF football coach Gus Malzahn was included in a car crash in Auburn, Alabama, on Monday evening, a spokesman from the university’s athletics section confirmed.

Brian Stultz, who addresses Auburn for the Rivals network, was to start with to report the crash in which another gentleman was airlifted in a helicopter. Malzahn was not injured in the incident.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, Malzahn was in Auburn with his spouse, Kristi, to assist her mom. Kristi’s father, Wesley Otwell, died on March 23, she wrote in a Fb write-up.

UCF held its ninth spring practice Tuesday early morning. It was closed to the media, although offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey and two players were manufactured offered for interviews afterward.

Malzahn, 56, coached Auburn’s football system from 2013-20. He beforehand served as the Tigers’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2009-11, successful a national championship in the method.

He was named UCF’s mentor on Feb. 15, 2021, reuniting with athletic director Terry Mohajir, who hired him for the exact place at Arkansas State a 10 years earlier.

Malzahn took time absent from the plan in January as Kristi was hospitalized with an an infection. On Feb. 3, he shared a statement onto social media that his wife had “returned house and is executing considerably far better.”