Football Coach
In August 2005, while trying to rehabilitate his Achilles tendon, Riemersma returned to western Michigan and took on a one-year assignment as the football coach at Zeeland East High School. After announcing his retirement from the NFL in January 2006, Riemersma returned for two more seasons as the football coach at Zeeland East. In three years as the football coach from 2005 to 2007, Riemersma compiled a record of 1-26. In 2008, Riemersma said, "We won just one game while I was there. I'm really proud, though, of what we tried to accomplish in building character in the kids."
In 2009, Riemersma was inducted into the Grand Rapids Sports Hall of Fame.
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