Eastern Washington University Athletics

Rick Worman quarterbacked Eastern to a 16-5-1 record in two seasons, including a 9-3 record and the quarterfinals of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) Playoffs in 1985. A transfer from Fresno State, Eastern was 7-2-1 in 1984 in his first season as an Eagle. He set 10 school records, including the record for single season passing yards (2,842) which stood for 16 years. His 67 passing attempts in a 1985 game versus Nevada stood as a school record for 24 seasons. He finished his career 430-of-765 (.562) for 5,588 yards, 47 touchdowns and 25 interceptions. His career passing efficiency rating of 130.4 ranked second in school history at the time and is currently 10th (entering 2018 season). He engineered one of Eastern's most thrilling victories in school history in a 42-38 come-from-behind victory at Idaho in the first round of the 1985 FCS Playoffs. He completed 29-of-53 passes for 354 yards and three touchdowns, and also scored twice on the ground. In the final minute he completed a 73-yard screen pass to Jamie Townsend, and on the next play he passed 17 yards to Eric Riley for the winning score with 12 seconds to play. At the time, his 354 yards were the fourth-most in school history, with his 388 in 1985 against Cal State Chico ranking second at the time. Worman went on to play for three Canadian Football League teams (Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatchewan) from 1986-91. He played in 97 regular season games and passed for 8,577 yards and 55 touchdowns. He then served as an assistant coach in the CFL, helping Winnipeg improve from a 7-10 season in 2000 to a 14-4 record in 2001 and an appearance in the Grey Cup. He was the team’s offensive coordinator in 2001. He then became head coach in January of 2002 of the expansion Fresno Frenzy in the arenafootball2 (af2) league for one season. After spending three years as a scout for Edmonton, he became quarterbacks coach for the Eskimos in May 2007 and eventually became the team’s offensive coordinator. He joined the Hamilton Tiger-Cats as running backs coach in 2011, then became a scout for the Ottawa CFL franchise. In 2013 he was quarterbacks coach at Mississippi Valley State, and then was hired in 2014 as offensive coordinator for the Montreal Alouettes in the CFL. In 2016 he was hired as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Wilmington College before spending the 2017 season as an assistant at Dixie State. In 1999, Dick Zornes selected Worman to the "Z" Team consisting of 36 players that he felt were the best players and made the largest contributions toward the 158 games Eastern won in Zornes' 26-year association with Eagle Football. Worman was selected by the Eastern Athletic Department to the “100 for 100” All-Time Football Team, which was honored on Sept. 27, 2008, to commemorate Eastern’s 100th year of football. The 1985 football team Worman played on was inducted into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005.