Bowling Green State University Athletics
Scot Loeffler Announces The Hiring Of Eight Coaches
December 02, 2018 | Football
Bowling Green, Ohio – Bowling Green State University head football coach Scot Loeffler has announced the hiring of seven on-field assistant coaches, as well as the football program's strength and conditioning coach.
Loeffler has added five new on-field assistant coaches and a new strength coach to the program, while retaining two members of the 2018 coaching staff. The five new on-field coaches are Terry Malone (offensive coordinator/offensive line), Chris Hedden (running backs), Erik Campbell (wide receivers), Max Warner (quarterbacks) and Louie Addazio (tight ends). Kevin Tolbert will serve as the program's strength and conditioning coach.
Carl Pelini, who served as the defensive coordinator in 2018, including the final five games of the season as the interim head coach, will return as the defensive coordinator in 2019. He earned the first two wins in program history by an interim head coach. Jacob Schoonover, who was the linebackers coach for the Falcons during the past season, will also return for his second year at Bowling Green.
Combined, the seven on-field assistant coaches and Loeffler boast 172 years of coaching experience (an average of 21.5 years each), including 130 years in college coaching. Of those 130 years, 63 years were spent at "Power 5" institutions and 31 years come from the Mid-American Conference.
Bios of all new coaches are listed below.
TERRY MALONE, OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR/OFFENSIVE LINE
Terry Malone returns for his second stint at Bowling Green, bringing more than 30 years of coaching experience, which includes an NCAA National Championship and an NFL Super Bowl title.
Malone was at Bowling Green from 1986-95 under Moe Ankney and Gary Blackney, serving in a variety of roles, including offensive line coach, tight ends coach, offensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator. He helped BGSU to back-to-back MAC Championships and bowl game victories in 1991 and 1992. The Falcons went 61-45-5 during that 10-year stretch.
Most recently, Malone coached at Western Michigan as the team's running backs coach in 2018 and as the Broncos' Director of Player Development in 2017. Prior to Western Michigan, he was the offensive coordinator and tight ends coach at Purdue.
Malone spent nine seasons on Sean Payton's New Orleans Saints staff, helping the Saints capture the Super Bowl in 2009. He mentored Jimmy Graham, helping elevate him into an All-Pro tight end. In 2001, Graham became the first Saints tight end to have more than 1,000 yards receiving and in 2013, he led the league in touchdown catches and the Saints in receiving yards (1,215).
Prior to his stint with the Saints, Malone was the offensive line coach (1997-05) and offensive coordinator (2001-05) at Michigan. He was a member of Michigan's 1997 National Championship team and a part of five Big Ten championships. His teams played in eight New Year's Day bowl games, while he helped produce 14 All-Big Ten selections and four All-Americans. Michigan had back-to-back Big Ten Player of the Year winners on offense (Chris Perry in 2003 and Braylon Edwards in 2004), while two of his linemen were recognized as Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year (Jon Jansen in 1997 and Steve Hutchinson in 2000).
Malone began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Arizona in 1983 before moving on to his alma mater, Holy Cross, in 1985 to coach tight ends. He also spent the 1996 season as the offensive line coach at Boston College.
A four-year tight end at Holy Cross, Malone earned his bachelor's degree in history and was a captain his senior season.
TERRY MALONE COACHING STOPS
2017-18: Western Michigan (Running Backs/Director of Player Development)
2015-16: Purdue (Offensive Coordinator/Tight Ends)
2006-14: New Orleans Saints (Tight Ends)
1997-05: Michigan (Offensive Line/Offensive Coordinator)
1996: Boston College (Offensive Line)
1986-95: Bowling Green (Offensive Line/Tight Ends/Offensive Coordinator)
1985: Holy Cross (Tight Ends)
1983-84: Arizona (Graduate Assistant)
CHRIS HEDDEN, RUNNING BACKS
Chris Hedden returns to the Mid-American Conference and brings 20 years of coaching experience across high school and collegiate ranks, including almost a decade within the MAC.
Most recently, Hedden served as the Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach at Trine University. After four consecutive 6-4 campaigns, he helped the program to back-to-back undefeated regular seasons and a 21-2 mark overall.
The Thunder led the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association in yards per game (475.0), total rushing yards (3,955), rushing yards per game (329.6), total offense (5,700 yards) and scoring (44.3 points per game) in 2017 and then posted nearly identical numbers again in 2018 with 42.6 points per game, 434.4 yards per game, and a league-high 304.8 yards per game on the ground, adding 40 rushing touchdowns.
As quarterbacks coach, Hedden mentored Evan Wyse to MIAA Offensive MVP honors and set a Trine single-season record with a 193.3 pass efficiency rating. Wyse was also a finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy, awarded to the most outstanding football player in NCAA Division III.
Before his time at Trine, Hedden spent three years locally as the head coach at Saint Francis de Sales High School in Toledo, leading the Knights to a playoff berth in 2013. He also spent a year as an assistant coach at Tiffin Calvert High School.
Prior to that time, Hedden spent eight years on the staff at Toledo, helping the Rockets to two MAC Championships, three Motor City Bowl appearances and a GMAC Bowl appearance. He served as the tight ends coach, offensive line coach and wide receivers coach, as well as offensive coordinator and running game coordinator. He was a graduate assistant at Toledo in 1996.
Hedden also made coaching stops at Akron (2009), Northern Iowa (1997-00) and Tiffin (1995).
Hedden played two years of football at Ashland before graduating with a degree in secondary education from Heidelberg in 1994. He and his wife, Jennifer, have three daughters – Alaina, Alexandra and Allyson – and a son, Christopher.
CHRIS HEDDEN COACHING STOPS
2015-18: Trine (Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks)
2012-14: Toledo St. Francis de Sales HS (Head Coach)
2011: Tiffin Calvert HS (Volunteer Assistant Coach)
2009: Akron (Tight Ends)
2001-08: Toledo (Tight Ends/Offensive Line/Wide Receivers/Offensive Coordinator/Running Game Coordinator)
1997-00: Northern Iowa (Offensive Coordinator/Running Backs)
1996: Toledo (Graduate Assistant)
1995: Tiffin (Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line)
1992-94: Tiffin Columbian HS (Assistant Coach)
ERIK CAMPBELL, WIDE RECEIVERS
Erik Campbell comes to Bowling Green after spending the past two seasons as the passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach at Delaware. He has 30 years of experience in coaching.
A 1988 graduate of Michigan and a native of Gary, Ind., Campbell has three years of experience in the Mid-American Conference, two years in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and more than 15 years of coaching tenure in the Big Ten.
As a player at Michigan from 1984-87, Campbell started 30 career games, including the final 25 games of his career, as a defensive back. He is the only player in Michigan history to start all four secondary positions in one year.
Campbell has been a part of 26 postseason football games, including four bowl games as a student-athlete and 19 as a coach. He has coached in four Rose Bowls and played in another, coached in two Orange Bowls, and played in a Fiesta Bowl.
Campbell began his coaching career as running backs coach at Navy from 1989-90. He then moved on to Ball State in the same role from 1991-93 and then at Syracuse in 1994. Campbell returned to his alma mater to serve as the wide receivers coach and assistant head coach (2003-07) from 1995-07.
At Michigan, Campbell was a part of the 1997 national championship team, coaching three All-Americans (David Terrell, Marquise Walker and Braylon Edwards) and 18 All-Big Ten selections. He had a 1,000-yard receiver for an NCAA-record eight straight seasons and mentored two of the most successful receivers in Big Ten history (Edwards and Marin McNutt at Iowa).
Following his time at Michigan, Campbell spent five years coaching the wide receivers and tight ends at Iowa before moving on to the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL to coach wide receivers for two seasons.
He returned to Michigan under Jim Harbaugh in 2015 as the recruiting coordinator and assistant director of operations before moving on to Connecticut as the wide receivers coach in 2016.
Campbell is a member of both the Indiana High School Football Hall of Fame and the Indiana High School Track & Field Hall of Fame. He was all-state at Roosevelt High School in Gary, Ind. and gained All-American honors in track after leading his team to back-to-back state championships. He was recognized in his hometown with the Benjamin Hooks Award, presented by the Gary chapter of the NAACP, during the spring of 2010, which is presented for efforts in implementing policies and programs that promote equal opportunity.
ERIK CAMPBELL COACHING STOPS
2017-18: Delaware (Passing Game Coordinator/Wide Receivers)
2016: Connecticut (Wide Receivers)
2015: Michigan (Recruiting Coordinator)
2013-14: Montreal Alouettes (Wide Receivers)
2008-12: Iowa (Wide Receivers/Tight Ends)
1995-07: Michigan (Wide Receivers/Assistant Head Coach)
1994: Syracuse (Running Backs)
1991-93: Ball State (Running Backs)
1989-90: Navy (Running Backs)
1988: Michigan (Student Assistant)
MAX WARNER, QUARTERBACKS
Max Warner comes to Bowling Green with an extensive background at both the high school and college levels. Most recently, he served as head coach at Bloomingdale High School in Valrico, Fla. He has also served coaching stints at Virginia Tech, Fort Hays State, North Carolina Wesleyan and Lakeland College.
In three years at Bloomingdale, Warner built the program into a juggernaut. In 2018, the program got off to its best start in the 32-year history of the program (7-0) and finished the year with an 11-2 record, winning their first two state playoff games in history. Playing in class 7A (the second-largest of eight classes), sixth-seeded Bloomingdale upset the No. 3 seed before eventually losing to top-seeded Venice in the region final.
Bloomingdale also advanced to the playoffs in 2017 under Warner, marking two of the program's four state appearances in its history.
In 2015, Warner was an offensive quality control coach at Virginia Tech, working alongside Loeffler.
At Hillsborough High School in the same county as Bloomingdale High, Warner was the offensive coordinator for a team that went 26-7 from 2012-14. Prior to his time at Hillsborough, he was the passing game coordinator at DeForest High School. He also spent two years coaching running backs at Fort Hays State and spent a season as the offensive coordinator with the Carlstad Crusaders in Karlstad, Sweden in the Swedish American Super Series Football League. Warner was the wide receivers coach at North Carolina Wesleyan in 2007 and began his coaching career in 2006 as the defensive backs coach at Lakeland College.
Warner played at Milliken College and was a three-year letter winner at quarterback and defensive back. He earned his bachelor's degree from Milliken in 2006 and his master's degree from Fort Hays State in 2009.
MAX WARNER COACHING STOPS
2016-18: Bloomingdale High School (Head Coach)
2015: Virginia Tech (Offensive Quality Control)
2011-14: Hillsborough High School (Offensive Coordinator)
2010: DeForest High School (Passing Game Coordinator)
2008-09: Fort Hays State (Running Backs)
2008: Carlstad Crusaders (Offensive Coordinator)
2007: North Carolina Wesleyan (Wide Receivers)
2006: Lakeland College (Defensive Backs)
LOUIE ADDAZIO, TIGHT ENDS
Louie Addazio enters Bowling Green with three years of experience on the Ohio State coaching staff, including two years as a graduate assistant, working with the offensive line. He was an intern with the program in 2016.
Addazio was a three-year letter winner at Boston College, graduating in 2014 with a degree in communications. He played in 33 games and started nine times as a tight end. He originally began his college career as Syracuse, competing as a member of the program in 2011 and 2012.
A native of Gainesville, Fla, Addazio is a graduate of Buchholz High School. His father, Steve, is the head coach at Boston College.
LOUIE ADDAZIO COACHING STOPS
2016-18: Ohio State (Graduate Assistant/Intern)
KEVIN TOLBERT, FOOTBALL STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH
Kevin Tolbert was the Director of Football Strength and Conditioning at Michigan from 2015-17 and served as the assistant strength coach for the Wolverines during Lloyd Carr's tenure from 2001-07. He has also spent time in strength and conditioning at Stanford (2009-10) and in the NFL with both the Detroit Lions (2008) and the San Francisco 49ers (2011-14).
A native of St. Albans, New York, Tolbert earned his bachelor's degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1981. Prior to his time at Michigan, he served three years at Miami (Fla.), working with the football, basketball and soccer programs. He was general manager and personal trainer at Mainline Health & Fitness for 10 years and also spent time as the head trainer/conditioning specialist at Ken Leistner's Training. While there, he directed the overall strength and conditioning of numerous athletics, including 1996 400 hurdles Olympic gold medalist Derrick Adkins.
Tolbert also served as a volunteer strength and conditioning coach with the Philadelphia Eagles from 1996-97. He was a three-year letterman at Navy, helping the squad to a pair of bowl victories.
Tolbert has four children – Kimberly, Kaitlin, Courtney and Matthew.
KEVIN TOLBERT COACHING STOPS
2015-17: Michigan
2011-14: San Francisco 49ers
2009-10: Stanford
2008: Detroit Lions
2001-07: Michigan
1998-00: Miami (Fla.)
1996-97: Philadelphia Eagles
Loeffler has added five new on-field assistant coaches and a new strength coach to the program, while retaining two members of the 2018 coaching staff. The five new on-field coaches are Terry Malone (offensive coordinator/offensive line), Chris Hedden (running backs), Erik Campbell (wide receivers), Max Warner (quarterbacks) and Louie Addazio (tight ends). Kevin Tolbert will serve as the program's strength and conditioning coach.
Carl Pelini, who served as the defensive coordinator in 2018, including the final five games of the season as the interim head coach, will return as the defensive coordinator in 2019. He earned the first two wins in program history by an interim head coach. Jacob Schoonover, who was the linebackers coach for the Falcons during the past season, will also return for his second year at Bowling Green.
Combined, the seven on-field assistant coaches and Loeffler boast 172 years of coaching experience (an average of 21.5 years each), including 130 years in college coaching. Of those 130 years, 63 years were spent at "Power 5" institutions and 31 years come from the Mid-American Conference.
Bios of all new coaches are listed below.
TERRY MALONE, OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR/OFFENSIVE LINE
Terry Malone returns for his second stint at Bowling Green, bringing more than 30 years of coaching experience, which includes an NCAA National Championship and an NFL Super Bowl title.
Malone was at Bowling Green from 1986-95 under Moe Ankney and Gary Blackney, serving in a variety of roles, including offensive line coach, tight ends coach, offensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator. He helped BGSU to back-to-back MAC Championships and bowl game victories in 1991 and 1992. The Falcons went 61-45-5 during that 10-year stretch.
Most recently, Malone coached at Western Michigan as the team's running backs coach in 2018 and as the Broncos' Director of Player Development in 2017. Prior to Western Michigan, he was the offensive coordinator and tight ends coach at Purdue.
Malone spent nine seasons on Sean Payton's New Orleans Saints staff, helping the Saints capture the Super Bowl in 2009. He mentored Jimmy Graham, helping elevate him into an All-Pro tight end. In 2001, Graham became the first Saints tight end to have more than 1,000 yards receiving and in 2013, he led the league in touchdown catches and the Saints in receiving yards (1,215).
Prior to his stint with the Saints, Malone was the offensive line coach (1997-05) and offensive coordinator (2001-05) at Michigan. He was a member of Michigan's 1997 National Championship team and a part of five Big Ten championships. His teams played in eight New Year's Day bowl games, while he helped produce 14 All-Big Ten selections and four All-Americans. Michigan had back-to-back Big Ten Player of the Year winners on offense (Chris Perry in 2003 and Braylon Edwards in 2004), while two of his linemen were recognized as Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year (Jon Jansen in 1997 and Steve Hutchinson in 2000).
Malone began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Arizona in 1983 before moving on to his alma mater, Holy Cross, in 1985 to coach tight ends. He also spent the 1996 season as the offensive line coach at Boston College.
A four-year tight end at Holy Cross, Malone earned his bachelor's degree in history and was a captain his senior season.
TERRY MALONE COACHING STOPS
2017-18: Western Michigan (Running Backs/Director of Player Development)
2015-16: Purdue (Offensive Coordinator/Tight Ends)
2006-14: New Orleans Saints (Tight Ends)
1997-05: Michigan (Offensive Line/Offensive Coordinator)
1996: Boston College (Offensive Line)
1986-95: Bowling Green (Offensive Line/Tight Ends/Offensive Coordinator)
1985: Holy Cross (Tight Ends)
1983-84: Arizona (Graduate Assistant)
CHRIS HEDDEN, RUNNING BACKS
Chris Hedden returns to the Mid-American Conference and brings 20 years of coaching experience across high school and collegiate ranks, including almost a decade within the MAC.
Most recently, Hedden served as the Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach at Trine University. After four consecutive 6-4 campaigns, he helped the program to back-to-back undefeated regular seasons and a 21-2 mark overall.
The Thunder led the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association in yards per game (475.0), total rushing yards (3,955), rushing yards per game (329.6), total offense (5,700 yards) and scoring (44.3 points per game) in 2017 and then posted nearly identical numbers again in 2018 with 42.6 points per game, 434.4 yards per game, and a league-high 304.8 yards per game on the ground, adding 40 rushing touchdowns.
As quarterbacks coach, Hedden mentored Evan Wyse to MIAA Offensive MVP honors and set a Trine single-season record with a 193.3 pass efficiency rating. Wyse was also a finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy, awarded to the most outstanding football player in NCAA Division III.
Before his time at Trine, Hedden spent three years locally as the head coach at Saint Francis de Sales High School in Toledo, leading the Knights to a playoff berth in 2013. He also spent a year as an assistant coach at Tiffin Calvert High School.
Prior to that time, Hedden spent eight years on the staff at Toledo, helping the Rockets to two MAC Championships, three Motor City Bowl appearances and a GMAC Bowl appearance. He served as the tight ends coach, offensive line coach and wide receivers coach, as well as offensive coordinator and running game coordinator. He was a graduate assistant at Toledo in 1996.
Hedden also made coaching stops at Akron (2009), Northern Iowa (1997-00) and Tiffin (1995).
Hedden played two years of football at Ashland before graduating with a degree in secondary education from Heidelberg in 1994. He and his wife, Jennifer, have three daughters – Alaina, Alexandra and Allyson – and a son, Christopher.
CHRIS HEDDEN COACHING STOPS
2015-18: Trine (Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks)
2012-14: Toledo St. Francis de Sales HS (Head Coach)
2011: Tiffin Calvert HS (Volunteer Assistant Coach)
2009: Akron (Tight Ends)
2001-08: Toledo (Tight Ends/Offensive Line/Wide Receivers/Offensive Coordinator/Running Game Coordinator)
1997-00: Northern Iowa (Offensive Coordinator/Running Backs)
1996: Toledo (Graduate Assistant)
1995: Tiffin (Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line)
1992-94: Tiffin Columbian HS (Assistant Coach)
ERIK CAMPBELL, WIDE RECEIVERS
Erik Campbell comes to Bowling Green after spending the past two seasons as the passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach at Delaware. He has 30 years of experience in coaching.
A 1988 graduate of Michigan and a native of Gary, Ind., Campbell has three years of experience in the Mid-American Conference, two years in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and more than 15 years of coaching tenure in the Big Ten.
As a player at Michigan from 1984-87, Campbell started 30 career games, including the final 25 games of his career, as a defensive back. He is the only player in Michigan history to start all four secondary positions in one year.
Campbell has been a part of 26 postseason football games, including four bowl games as a student-athlete and 19 as a coach. He has coached in four Rose Bowls and played in another, coached in two Orange Bowls, and played in a Fiesta Bowl.
Campbell began his coaching career as running backs coach at Navy from 1989-90. He then moved on to Ball State in the same role from 1991-93 and then at Syracuse in 1994. Campbell returned to his alma mater to serve as the wide receivers coach and assistant head coach (2003-07) from 1995-07.
At Michigan, Campbell was a part of the 1997 national championship team, coaching three All-Americans (David Terrell, Marquise Walker and Braylon Edwards) and 18 All-Big Ten selections. He had a 1,000-yard receiver for an NCAA-record eight straight seasons and mentored two of the most successful receivers in Big Ten history (Edwards and Marin McNutt at Iowa).
Following his time at Michigan, Campbell spent five years coaching the wide receivers and tight ends at Iowa before moving on to the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL to coach wide receivers for two seasons.
He returned to Michigan under Jim Harbaugh in 2015 as the recruiting coordinator and assistant director of operations before moving on to Connecticut as the wide receivers coach in 2016.
Campbell is a member of both the Indiana High School Football Hall of Fame and the Indiana High School Track & Field Hall of Fame. He was all-state at Roosevelt High School in Gary, Ind. and gained All-American honors in track after leading his team to back-to-back state championships. He was recognized in his hometown with the Benjamin Hooks Award, presented by the Gary chapter of the NAACP, during the spring of 2010, which is presented for efforts in implementing policies and programs that promote equal opportunity.
ERIK CAMPBELL COACHING STOPS
2017-18: Delaware (Passing Game Coordinator/Wide Receivers)
2016: Connecticut (Wide Receivers)
2015: Michigan (Recruiting Coordinator)
2013-14: Montreal Alouettes (Wide Receivers)
2008-12: Iowa (Wide Receivers/Tight Ends)
1995-07: Michigan (Wide Receivers/Assistant Head Coach)
1994: Syracuse (Running Backs)
1991-93: Ball State (Running Backs)
1989-90: Navy (Running Backs)
1988: Michigan (Student Assistant)
MAX WARNER, QUARTERBACKS
Max Warner comes to Bowling Green with an extensive background at both the high school and college levels. Most recently, he served as head coach at Bloomingdale High School in Valrico, Fla. He has also served coaching stints at Virginia Tech, Fort Hays State, North Carolina Wesleyan and Lakeland College.
In three years at Bloomingdale, Warner built the program into a juggernaut. In 2018, the program got off to its best start in the 32-year history of the program (7-0) and finished the year with an 11-2 record, winning their first two state playoff games in history. Playing in class 7A (the second-largest of eight classes), sixth-seeded Bloomingdale upset the No. 3 seed before eventually losing to top-seeded Venice in the region final.
Bloomingdale also advanced to the playoffs in 2017 under Warner, marking two of the program's four state appearances in its history.
In 2015, Warner was an offensive quality control coach at Virginia Tech, working alongside Loeffler.
At Hillsborough High School in the same county as Bloomingdale High, Warner was the offensive coordinator for a team that went 26-7 from 2012-14. Prior to his time at Hillsborough, he was the passing game coordinator at DeForest High School. He also spent two years coaching running backs at Fort Hays State and spent a season as the offensive coordinator with the Carlstad Crusaders in Karlstad, Sweden in the Swedish American Super Series Football League. Warner was the wide receivers coach at North Carolina Wesleyan in 2007 and began his coaching career in 2006 as the defensive backs coach at Lakeland College.
Warner played at Milliken College and was a three-year letter winner at quarterback and defensive back. He earned his bachelor's degree from Milliken in 2006 and his master's degree from Fort Hays State in 2009.
MAX WARNER COACHING STOPS
2016-18: Bloomingdale High School (Head Coach)
2015: Virginia Tech (Offensive Quality Control)
2011-14: Hillsborough High School (Offensive Coordinator)
2010: DeForest High School (Passing Game Coordinator)
2008-09: Fort Hays State (Running Backs)
2008: Carlstad Crusaders (Offensive Coordinator)
2007: North Carolina Wesleyan (Wide Receivers)
2006: Lakeland College (Defensive Backs)
LOUIE ADDAZIO, TIGHT ENDS
Louie Addazio enters Bowling Green with three years of experience on the Ohio State coaching staff, including two years as a graduate assistant, working with the offensive line. He was an intern with the program in 2016.
Addazio was a three-year letter winner at Boston College, graduating in 2014 with a degree in communications. He played in 33 games and started nine times as a tight end. He originally began his college career as Syracuse, competing as a member of the program in 2011 and 2012.
A native of Gainesville, Fla, Addazio is a graduate of Buchholz High School. His father, Steve, is the head coach at Boston College.
LOUIE ADDAZIO COACHING STOPS
2016-18: Ohio State (Graduate Assistant/Intern)
KEVIN TOLBERT, FOOTBALL STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH
Kevin Tolbert was the Director of Football Strength and Conditioning at Michigan from 2015-17 and served as the assistant strength coach for the Wolverines during Lloyd Carr's tenure from 2001-07. He has also spent time in strength and conditioning at Stanford (2009-10) and in the NFL with both the Detroit Lions (2008) and the San Francisco 49ers (2011-14).
A native of St. Albans, New York, Tolbert earned his bachelor's degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1981. Prior to his time at Michigan, he served three years at Miami (Fla.), working with the football, basketball and soccer programs. He was general manager and personal trainer at Mainline Health & Fitness for 10 years and also spent time as the head trainer/conditioning specialist at Ken Leistner's Training. While there, he directed the overall strength and conditioning of numerous athletics, including 1996 400 hurdles Olympic gold medalist Derrick Adkins.
Tolbert also served as a volunteer strength and conditioning coach with the Philadelphia Eagles from 1996-97. He was a three-year letterman at Navy, helping the squad to a pair of bowl victories.
Tolbert has four children – Kimberly, Kaitlin, Courtney and Matthew.
KEVIN TOLBERT COACHING STOPS
2015-17: Michigan
2011-14: San Francisco 49ers
2009-10: Stanford
2008: Detroit Lions
2001-07: Michigan
1998-00: Miami (Fla.)
1996-97: Philadelphia Eagles
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