Willie J. Robinson Jr. joined the Georgetown coaching staff in July 2021. He assists with the team’s linebackers.
Robinson comes to the Hilltop after spending most of the past two decades playing and coaching in Europe. He spent the last three seasons on the staff of the Munster Mammuts Senior Team in Munster, Germany. He was the team’s offensive coordinator in 2020 after serving as the defensive coordinator in 2018 and the linebacker coach in 2017. He also was the special teams coordinator in each of his last two years with the Mammuts.
From 2013 through 2019, Robinson served as the head coach of three German Football League programs. He led the Hannover Spartans from 2017-19, the Bielefeld Bulldogs from 2016-17 and the Lubeck Cougars from 2013-15). He also suited up for two seasons, serving as a player/coach in 2017 for the Spartans and in 2015 for the Cougars.
Robinson also spent time in France, serving as the head coach and director of operations for the Clermont-Ferrand Servals (2011-12). He was also on the staff of the French National Team from 2008-10, working with both the defensive line and the linebacker units. Between stints in France, Robinson was the special teams coordinator and linebackers coach at West Virginia Wesleyan College for the 2010 season.
In 2011, in partnership with the Amobi Okoye Foundation and the NFL, Robinson traveled to Lagos and Abudja, Nigeria as an ambassador of American football to promote the sport. While in Africa the group held several camps and clinics which included the Changing Africa Through Education (C.A.T.E.) program run by the Amobi Okoye Foundation, which includes the C.A.T.E. scholarship program, a Books Abroad donation and free medical clinics.
Robinson played collegiately as a linebacker at both Kutztown University and the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. After a tryout with the New Orleans Saints, Robinson began his professional career in 2001, spending two seasons playing for four different teams in AF2, a developmental league for the Arena Football league.
In 2003, Robinson made his way to Europe to play for the Ancona Dolphins in the Italian Football League (IFL). He then spent the next six seasons playing in France’s Fédération Française de Football Américain (FFFA), suiting up for the Templiers d’Elancourt from 2004-08 and the Toulon Cannoniers in 2009. Robinson concluded his playing career with single seasons in Germany playing for Lubeck (2015) and Hannover (2017).
Originally from Washington, D.C., Robinson attended and played football at Gonzaga College High School in the District. He earned his degree in business administration and international relations in 2009 from the Schiller International University of Paris.
He is married to former Lithuanian basketball nationalist Ieva Robinson, has two daughters - Sofia Curly and Lucia Claire Robinson.
