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Eight HBCU football coaches picked for
NCAA Academy
June 9, 2006
INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA has selected 20 coaches, eight from
HBCUs, who one day aspire to be head coaches
in Division I-A football for its NCAA Football
Coaching Academy, June 11-13, in Indianapolis,
Indiana.
The Football Coaching Academy is one of the NCAA initiatives
that addresses the critical shortage of ethnic minorities in
head coaching positions in the sport of college football, primarily
at the Division I level. Of the current 117 Division I-A head
football coaches, five are African-American. In Division I-AA,
there are two African-American head football coaches and one
Native American head football coach. Less than 2.7 percent
of head football coaches in all NCAA divisions are ethnic minorities,
excluding the historically black colleges and universities.
The
participants for the NCAA Men’s Football Coaching
Academy are:
- Trent Boykin, assistant head coach, Kentucky State University
- Miles Brandon, co-defensive coordinator,
Prairie View A&M
University
- Terrance Brooks, head football coach, Kalamazoo College
- Deondri Clark, head football coach, Shaw University
- Nathan Cochran, assistant football coach, University of Wisconsin,
Platteville
- Otis Covington, former assistant head coach,
Fort Valley State University
- Nelson Edmonds, academic advisor/assistant football coach,
University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
- Garry Fisher, defensive coordinator, Shenandoah University
- Dwayne Foster, assistant football
coach, Prairie View A&M
University
- Jeremy Gold, defensive line coach, University of Northern Iowa
- Thomas Kearney, assistant head coach, Iowa Wesleyan College
- Brandon McCray, head football coach, MacMurray College
- Larry McDaniel, assistant coach, Kent State University
- John Morgan, former head football coach, Fort
Valley State University
- Alvin Parker, offensive coordinator, Elizabeth City State University
- Christopher Patterson, assistant
football coach, Saint Augustine’s
College
- Peter Quaweay, secondary coach, University of Rhode Island
- Christopher Simpson, assistant football coach, University of
Wisconsin, Whitewater
- Christopher Taylor, head football coach, Saint Peter’s
College
- KiJuan Ware, assistant football coach, Georgetown University
The NCAA Football Coaching Academy is designed to reinforce
various aspects of securing, managing and excelling in head
football coaching positions at the intercollegiate level. Recognized
football coaches and athletics and higher education administrators
serve as faculty for the three-day workshop.
The NCAA Football Coaching Academy workshop will focus on:
Communication Skills (interviewing and public speaking)
Fiscal Responsibilities (maintaining and managing a budget)
Building a Successful Program (managing staff, game strategy,
maintaining relationships with senior officials at the university--athletics
administrators/alumni/student-athletes/faculty/community)
Compliance Considerations (NCAA rules and regulations/infractions)
Academic Issues (fraud, support, retention, success)
Speakers scheduled to present at the NCAA Football Coaching
Academy include: Barry Alvarez, former head football coach
and current athletics director at the University of Wisconsin;
Floyd Keith, executive director, Black Coaches Association;
Randy Walker, head football coach, Northwestern University;
past NCAA Expert Coaches Academy graduates—Ron Prince,
Kansas State University head football coach and Norries Wilson,
Columbia University head football coach; and Charlotte Westerhaus,
NCAA vice-president for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
The NCAA began its Coaches Academy in 2003. Additionally,
the Association hosts an Expert Coaches Academy program, which
also provides skill enhancement at an elevated level.
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