Lane College promotes Dearrion Snead to head football coach
December 6, 2007
Lane College has announced the promotion of Dearrion Snead to head football coach. He replaces Johnnie Cole, who was named head football coach at Texas Southern University last week.
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Snead was Lane's defensive coordinator last season, his first on the Dragons' staff. This will be his first job as a head coach.
Last season, Lane's defense ranked second in the SIAC and 11th in NCAA Division II
Prior to joining the staff at Lane, Snead was defensive back coach snd special teams coordinator at Shaw University for one year following a stint as assistant head coach and defensive coordinator at Guilford College.
Snead, 38, has also coached at Arizona Western College, Texas Southern University, Virginia State University, Southwest State University, Tiffin University,Tennessee State University and East Stroudsburg University..
Last summer, the 16-year veteran was one of 30 coaches selected to participate in the 2007 NCAA Men's Coaches Academy,
"Being a head coach has been my goal since I started coaching," Snead told the "Jackson Sun" newspaper prior to a press conference announcing his appointment. "I'm real thankful for the opportunity. There won't be any major changes. I'm not going to try to fix what's not broken. The foundation is there, and I'm going to try to build on it."
A member of the Longwood (NY) High School Athletics Hall of Fame, Snead is a 1996 graduate of St. Joseph’s in Long Island.
He began his college career at North Carolina A&T State University, where he played varsity football. He spent four years as a non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. As a Marine, he received the Kuwait Liberation Medal, the National Defense Medal, and the Good Conduct Medal and was named to the All-Marine Football Team
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