Albion College

Rico Wallace enters his third season as pass game coordinator/wide receivers coach at Albion in 2025.

In 2024, Albion's receiving corps helped their passing offense rank No. 5 overall in Division III with 320.4 yards per game. Wallace helped mentor Dilon Dennison to a second-team All-MIAA season in which he led the team with 41 receptions for 527 yards and seven touchdowns. Aiden Adams also finished eighth in the conference with 570 receiving yards.

Under Wallace's tutelage in 2023, Kye Bristow earned third-team All-Region honors from D3Football.com after catching 64 passes for 913 yards and 11 touchdowns. He also had four 100-yard games throughout the season.

Wallace came to Albion after six seasons alongside Albion head coach Travis Rundle at Sewanee (also known as the University of the South) from 2017-22. For his first four seasons, Wallace was the Tigers' wide receivers coach before being promoted to offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach prior to the 2021 season. He also served as recruiting coordinator during that span.

He led meetings and on field instruction for the quarterbacks, wide receivers, running backs and tight ends and was the Athletics Diversity, Equity and Inclusion chair while with the Tigers. 

In 2016, Wallace coached the running backs at Wartburg College in Iowa under Rick Willis, the winningest coach in program history.

Wallace coached the tight ends at Illinois Wesleyan University during the 2015 season.

A 2012 graduate from Shenandoah University with a sport management degree, Wallace was a four-year letterwinner and three-time all-conference wide receiver from 2008-11.

He rewrote the record books during his time with the Hornets, setting a number of school marks including most receptions in a career (189), season (67) and game (12); most receiving yards in a career (3,287) and season (1,241); and touchdown catches in a season (14) and game (5).

For his efforts, Wallace was inducted into Shenandoah's Athletics Hall of Fame in 2025.

Wallace signed as an undrafted free agent with the Carolina Panthers in 2012, sharing a wide receiver room with five-time Pro Bowler Steve Smith Sr. In 2013, he played for the CFL's Edmonton Eskimos. After being released each of those years due to medical reasons, Wallace returned to Shenandoah where he served as an assistant wide receivers coach from 2012-14.

A Hanover, Md. native, he graduated from Meade High School in 2008. Wallace also received a master's degree in sports psychology from Illinois State University in 2016.

In 2023, Wallace was part of the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship program with the New York Jets during the team's training camp and preseason.

Wallace and his wife, Nysha, have two daughters, River and Nia. Nysha is Albion College's Success Coach for Accessibility and Case Management.