COACHING STAFF Ken Niumatalolo – Head Coach .................................. 58-59 Ivin Jasper – Offensive Coord./Quarterbacks ................... 60 Dale Pehrson – Defensive Coordinator ............................. 61 Chris Culton – Offensive Line ........................................... 62 Justin Davis – Outside Linebackers .................................. 63 Lt. Col. Robert Green, USMC – Outside Linebackers ...... 64 Ashley Ingram – Running Game Coord./Off. Line ............ 65 Steve Johns – Inside Linebackers .................................... 66 Mike Judge – Fullbacks ..................................................... 67 Shaun Nua – Defensive Line ............................................. 68 Dan O’Brien – Secondary .................................................. 69 Danny O’Rourke – Special Teams Coord./Slotbacks ........ 70 Napoleon Sykes – Defensive Line .................................... 71 Mick Yokitis – Wide Receivers .......................................... 72 Mike Brass/Jim Berry/Sean Magee ............................... 73 Bryce McDonald/John McGuire/Greg Morgenthaler ... 74 Capt. Ryan Tully, USMC ................................................... 75 Support Staff ..................................................................... 75 THE BROTHERHOOD 57 COACHING STAFF KEN NIUMATALOLO HEAD COACH In his eight seasons at the helm of the Navy football program, Eddie Erdelatz and Wayne Hardin as the only Navy coaches to beat and in his 18 years overall at the Naval Academy, head coach Notre Dame in consecutive seasons. Ken Niumatalolo continues to engineer a program that has hit on Navy finished the 2015 campaign with a school-record 11 wins all cylinders since he took over the reigns at the end of the 2007 against just two losses, qualified for a bowl game for the 12th time campaign. He has repeatedly guided the Midshipmen to success in the last 13 years, won a bowl game for the 10th time in school both on and off the gridiron. Included in his accomplishments are a history (beat Pittsburgh, 44-28, in the Military Bowl), won a bowl game number of milestones never before achieved by a coach or team in for a third straight year for the first time in school history, defeated the program’s 132-year history. Army for a series-record 14th consecutive year, won the Commander- Niumatalolo (68-37, .648) is the all-time winningest coach in In-Chief’s Trophy for the third time in the last four years, won the school history and is the only coach in the history of the Army-Navy Lambert Trophy as the best team in the East for the first time since game to start his coaching career 8-0 against the other Academy. 1963, finished 18th in the country in both the Associated Press and Those two achievements highlight a long list of achievements by Coaches polls and shared the West Division title of the American Niumatalolo. Athletic Conference with Houston in Navy’s first year of being in a NIUMATALOLO S He led Navy to a school-record 11 wins in 2015, which included conference after being an Independent for 134 years. ’ sharing the West Division title with Houston in Navy’s first year in In 2014, Navy finished with an 8-5 record, qualified for a bowl RESUME’ the American Athletic Conference, as well as winning the Lambert game for the 11th time in the last 12 years, won a bowl game for Trophy, awarded to the best team in the East, for the first time since just the ninth time in school history (beat San Diego State, 17-16, in 19TH SEASON at NAVY 1963. the Poinsettia Bowl), won a bowl game in back-to-back years for the He is the first coach in school history to win three consecutive bowl second time in school history and defeated Army for a series-record NINTH SEASON as games and his four overall bowl wins are the most in school history. 13th consecutive year. HEAD COACH He has led Navy to five Commander-In-Chief’s Trophies, which Navy finished the 2013 season with a 9-4 record, won the (68-37, .648) is tied with George Welsh and Paul Johnson for the most in school Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy for the ninth time in the last 11 years, history. qualified for a bowl game for the 10th time in the last 11 years, won _____________________ He was one of just four coaches to be named a finalist for the Dodd a bowl game for just the eighth time in school history (beat Middle COACHING BACKGROUND Trophy and the Paul “Bear” Bryant National Coach Of The Year Award Tennessee, 24-6, in the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl) and in 2015. defeated Army for a series-record 12th consecutive year. Graduate Assistant In 2013, Niumatalolo was selected to the inaugural class of the Niumatalolo led Navy to an 8-5 record in 2012 and a berth in the Hawai’i, 1990-92 Polynesian Football Hall of Fame and was inducted on January 23 in Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, which was Navy’s ninth bowl game in the Honolulu. last 10 years. Navy defeated Air Force, 28-21, in overtime and Army, Assistant Coach He is just the second coach since World War II to lead Navy to a 17-13, to give the Mids the Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy. Hawai’i, 1992-94 winning record in each of his first three seasons at the helm and joins Navy was 5-7 in 2011 that included a series record 10th-straight Assistant Coach Navy, 1995-96 Offensive Coordinator Navy, 1997-98 Assistant Coach UNLV, 1999-2001 Assistant Head Coach Navy, 2002-07 Head Coach Navy, 2008-Present _____________________ PERSONAL Date of Birth May 8, 1965 Education Hawai’i, B.S., 1989 Wife Barbara Children Alexcia, Va’a, and Ali’i 58 THE BROTHERHOOD COACHING STAFF Niumatalolo Coaching RECORD Career Record 68-37 / Ninth Year Navy Record 68-37 / Ninth Year American Athletic Conference 7-1 Nonconference 61-36 Home 34-9 Away 23-19 Neutral 11-9 Service Academy Games 13-3 Bowl Games 4-4 YEAR-BY-YEAR COACHING LEDGER School Year W L Pct. Postseason Navy 2007 * 0 1 .000 Poinsettia Navy 2008 8 5 .615 EagleBank Navy 2009 10 4 .714 Texas – Champion Navy 2010 9 4 .692 Poinsettia Navy 2011 5 7 .417 -- Navy 2012 8 5 .615 Fight Hunger Navy 2013 9 4 .692 Armed Forces – Champion Navy 2014 8 5 .615 Poinsettia – Champion Navy 2015 11 2 .846 Military – Champion Career 68 37 .648 * Named head coach on Dec. 8, 2007, prior to the Poinsettia Bowl victory over Army. The Mids played seven teams that finished with a winning record and six that went to bowl games. The Mids posted an impressive 9-4 record in 2010, defeated Army for a series record ninth- to perform well enough for the Midshipmen to finish third in the country in rushing (289.5), win consecutive time, defeated Notre Dame in consecutive seasons for only the third time in school a school-record tying 10 games (the most wins since 1905), go to back-to-back bowl games history and appeared in a school-record eighth consecutive bowl game for the second time in school history, win the Emerald Bowl and win the Commander-In-Chief’s The 2009 season was one to remember for the Midshipmen, as Navy tied a school record Trophy. for wins with 10, won a school-record seventh consecutive Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy, Despite a lack of experience up front, the Mids led the nation in rushing (323.2 yards per appeared in a seventh consecutive bowl game, beat Notre Dame in South Bend for the second contest) in 2003 and set seven school records as Navy went 8-5, won the Commander-In- straight time and ran their winning streak against the other two Service Academies to an Chief’s Trophy and earned a berth in the Houston Bowl. amazing 15 straight games. The Mids capped the season off with a 35-13 rout of Missouri in In 2002, the Navy offensive line helped the Mids to the third-best rushing average in the the Texas Bowl. country (270.75). In 2008, Niumatalolo became the first coach to lead Navy to a bowl game in his inaugural Niumatalolo was also an assistant at Navy from 1995-98, serving as the offensive season and, thanks to a 33-27 victory over Air Force and a 34-0 win over Army, he became just coordinator in 1997 and 1998. As the offensive coordinator, Niumatalolo tutored Chris McCoy, the second Service Academy coach to win the Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy in his first year. who set the then-NCAA record for most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in a season with Niumatalolo led the Midshipmen to an 8-5 record, the most wins for a first-year coach at Navy 20 in 1997 and became just the 10th player in NCAA history to rush for more than 1,000 yards since 1934. Included in those eight wins was a 24-17 victory over 16th-ranked Wake Forest, and pass for more than 1,000 yards in the same season. In addition, Navy finished among the which was Navy’s first win over a team ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 since 1985. nation’s top five in rushing his last-two years and broke 38 school offensive records during his Navy also beat teams currently in the BCS in back-to-back weeks (Rutgers and Wake Forest) tenure. for the first time since 1981 and defeated a program-record four bowl teams. Niumatalolo coached at UNLV for three seasons (1999-01) and called the plays his final year Niumatalolo was promoted to head football coach at the Naval Academy on Dec. 8, 2007, (2001) in Vegas. He also worked with the kickoff return unit and, under his guidance, UNLV by Naval Academy Director of Athletics Chet Gladchuk. ranked sixth in the nation in kickoff returns in 2001 and finished second in 1999.