Elijah Sessoms enters his first season as an assistant coach for the ECSU Football program working with the Wide Receivers.
Sessoms comes to the Vikings after a season at Shaw coaching the Wide Receivers. Sessoms helped produce three receivers in the top-15 in the CIAA in receiving yards. Sessoms helped Ah’Shaan Belcher to multiple CIAA Receiver of the Week honors and a 2025 HBCU Legacy Bowl selection.
Prior to his collegiate coaching career, Sessoms returned for his second stint in 2023 at Southern Durham HS as an Associate Head Coach and Pass Game Coordinator where the team averaged 33.4 points per game and 239.6 passing yards per game.
Sessoms would spend the 2022 season as the Head Coach at JF Webb HS in Oxford, N.C. He would lead the program to three All-Conference selections.
Before heading to JF Webb HS, Sessoms started his coaching career at his alma mater Southern Durham HS for his first stint serving as the Wide Receivers coach for five seasons. During that time, Southern Durham receivers racked up over 1600 yards and 15 touchdowns per season.
Sessoms would also be selected as a coach for the Carolina Bowl All-Star game in 2020, 2022, and 2023.
The Durham, N.C. native played his collegiate career at Fayetteville State before finishing his career at Winston-Salem State. Sessoms received a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication from Fayetteville State in 2011.
