FARGO, N.D.--Head football coach Craig Bohl announced that defensive line coach Scottie Hazelton has been promoted to defensive coordinator at North Dakota State University. Hazelton will move from defensive line to linebackers coach. Bohl made the announcement today.

Hazelton has been the defensive line coach for NDSU since 2007. He was a former graduate assistant for the Bison in 2000 and 2001. Hazelton worked closely with Casey "Gus" Bradley, who is currently defensive coordinator with the Seattle Seahawks and former NDSU assistant coach when he began his career.

Hazelton has been a part of several impressive defensive coaching staffs since coming back to Fargo. In the 2008, North Dakota State led the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) in pass defense (116.82 ypg), and ranked 3rd in sacks (3.36 avg/g), 5th in total defense (254 ypg) and tackles for loss (8.55 avg/g), and 19th in scoring defense (19.18 ypg).

In the 2007 FCS statistics, the Bison were ranked 18th in defensive third down efficiency (33.3 percent) and 22nd in rushing defense (126.5 ypg).

Hazelton was the linebackers coach at Michigan Tech in 2006 after spending two seasons as the co-defensive coordinator at Missouri Southern State. He was also the defensive backs coach for two seasons at St. Olaf College in Minnesota

He played collegiate football at Fort Lewis College in Colorado and began his coaching career there in 1996 working with the defensive secondary and serving as interim defensive coordinator.

Hazelton was a graduate assistant at NDSU for two seasons under then Bison head coach and current Chicago Bears assistant Bob Babich before moving on to St. Olaf.

Scott and his wife, Brooke, have two daughters, Ava and Sophie. The couple is expecting their first boy in June.

North Dakota State finished the season with a 3-8 record overall including a 2-6 mark in the MVFC.

The Bison open the 2010 season at Kansas on Sept. 4.