Eric Ziskin - Football Coach

Eric Ziskin

Title:
Director of Football Scouting
Email:
football@usc.edu

Eric Ziskin is in his 11th year with the USC football program, including his fourth season as assistant athletic director-recruiting and player personnel. Ziskin oversees all facets of the team’s recruiting department. He helped sign Top 5 classes nationally in 2018 and 2017, as well as the number one overall class in 2015 according to Rivals.com.

Prior to his current role, Ziskin served one year as USC’s director of football scouting, 2 as an offensive administrative assistant reporting to Coach Clay Helton, 1 year as a defensive administrative assistant, and 3 years as a student manager, including the 2011 season during which he served as the head student manager.

He spent the 2016 season living overseas in Norway with his wife, Kajsa Olsson.

Ziskin earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the USC Marshall School of Business in 2011.