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The Coaching Staff MATT Matt Walker’s WALKER Collegiate Coaching Experience Head Coach Matt Walker enters his second season Years Position as DePauw’s head coach and his eighth on 1999-00 Assistant Baseball Coach the football staff. When he was named the DePauw University head coach in June 2006, Walker became Greencastle, Indiana just the 11th DePauw head coach in the last 77 years. 2000- Head Baseball Coach A 1999 DePauw graduate, Walker is present DePauw University also the first DePauw alumnus in the last Greencastle, Indiana century to serve as head football coach at his alma mater. 2000-06 Assistant Football Coach Walker directed the Tigers to a 6-4 DePauw University record in his first season and a third-place Greencastle, Indiana finish in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. Over the previous seven seasons, Walker was an assistant coach for the 2006- Head Football Coach football program and has coached wide receivers, tight ends, running backs and present DePauw University quarterbacks. Greencastle, Indiana The Crawfordsville, Ind., native is also entering his ninth season as DePauw’s head baseball coach where his teams have posted a 196-136 record making him the second winningest coach in school history. He led the 2001 Tigers to the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference title and their first appearance in the NCAA tournament in 22 years. His 2004 team won a school-record 28 games and the 2005 squad broke DePauw All-Time Coaching Records that record with 29 victories. Walker joined the DePauw staff as an assistant baseball coach in the fall of 1999 and was named head baseball coach in mid- COACH YEARS YRS W L T PCT. March, 2000. None Listed 1884 1 0 1 0 .000 Walker was a three-year member of the DePauw football team, earned a W. G. Glenn 1889-90 2 2 3 1 .417 varsity letter during his senior season and was a starter at quarterback as well as Clint Hare 1891 1 3 1 0 .750 a special teams player. During his three seasons, the Tigers posted a 24-6 record A.N. Sager 1892-93 2 7 7 0 .500 E.O. Smith 1894 1 4 4 0 .500 including a school record-tying nine wins in 1996 and an Indiana Collegiate Frank E. Wade 1895 1 3 3 1 .500 Athletic Conference championship. Arthur Hamrick 1896-97 2 6 9 0 .400 As a member of the DePauw baseball team, Walker set the single-season Samuel K. Ruick 1898 1 3 4 2 .444 school record with 79 strikeouts in 1999 on the way to winning 10 games which Jules H. Ford 1899 1 3 2 0 .600 stands as the second-highest season total by a DePauw pitcher. He earned three Herbert J. McIntire 1899-1900 2 7 8 2 .471 varsity letters and was an all-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference first team Anthony Chez 1901 1 8 3 0 .727 selection as a senior. Jimmy Henry 1902 1 5 5 0 .500 Walker earned a master’s degree from Indiana State University. He, his wife Chauncey Berrien 1903 1 2 6 1 .278 Jana and daughter, Kraly, reside in Greencastle. McFadden 1904 1 6 3 0 .667 O.H. Luck 1905-06 2 7 10 0 .412 Arthur M. Brown 1907-09 3 11 9 1 .548 R.C. Tapp 1910 1 4 3 0 .571 Arthur H. Berndt 1911 1 0 5 3 .188 Ashel Cunningham 1912 1 3 5 0 .375 Tom A. Bogle 1913-14 2 9 7 1 .559 Ralph Young 1915 1 5 3 0 .625 Edbert C. Buss 1916-20 5 21 13 1 .614 Fred M. Walker 1921 1 4 3 0 .571 James M. Ashmore 1922-24 3 9 11 3 .457 William L. Hughes 1925-29 5 20 17 3 .538 Raymond “Gaumey” Neal 1930-45 16 79 34 7 .688 Robert Nipper 1946 1 1 5 2 .250 Mike Snavely 1947-55 9 29 42 2 .411 Bob Hicks 1956-58 3 9 15 1 .380 Tom Mont 1959-76 18 67 94 4 .418 Bob Bergman 1977-78 2 3 16 0 .158 Jerry Berndt 1979-80 2 9 9 1 .500 Nick Mourouzis 1981-2003 23 138 87 4 .611 Bill Lynch 2004 1 8 2 0 .800 Tim Rogers 2005 1 7 2 0 .778 Matt Walker 2006 1 6 4 0 .600 TOTALS 119 508 455 40 .526 24 — 2007 DePauw University Football The Coaching Staff Assistant Coaches LEN FELTON and played in the 2002 Sugar Bowl. Northwestern and completed 20 of 37 passes for Running Backs He played professionally with NFL Europe’s 246 yards which were all career highs. Scottish Claymore in 2003 where he was the team’s Len Felton enters his second special team’s captain. Jackson was also on the NFL season as an assistant coach at rosters of the New York Jets, Indianapolis Colts JAKE WISSING DePauw and will coach the run- and Green Bay Packers. Most recently, he was an Offensive Linemen ning backs. He also serves as a assistant coach at Champaign Central High School New York Posse X mentor. in Illinois. Jake Wissing begins his first Felton earned a bachelor of Jackson and his wife, Chequetta, reside in season as an assistant coach at science degree in English from suburban Indianapolis. his alma mater and will direct the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 1988 and the offensive line. Wissing came to DePauw from Cornell College in Mt. Ver- comes to DePauw from St. non, Iowa, where he was the defensive backs coach ROBBY LONG Joseph’s (Ind.) College where for two seasons. Assistant Head Coach he coached the offensive line He previously served one year each as an assistant Defensive Coordinator during the 2006 season. at both St. Norbert College and Lawrence University Wissing graduated from DePauw in 2003 and and was the head coach at St. Thomas More High Robby Long enters his earned a Bachelor of Arts degree while majoring in School as well as an assistant in the Village of Allouez fourth season as an assistant communication. While at DePauw, Wissing served School, both in Green Bay. Felton also was a sports coach and second as the Tigers’ as a student assistant his senior year after playing for reporter for WLUK-TV in Green Bay for 14 years. assistant head coach and de- the Tigers each of his first three seasons. fensive coordinator. He also is Upon graduation he served as a graduate assistant DePauw’s director of student- coach at Alfred University where he coached the TIM HREHA athlete recruitment. running backs and earned a Master of Professional Defensive Linemen In the two seasons prior to coming to DePauw, Studies degree. Long served as a graduate assistant on the defensive He then moved on to Norwich University where Tim Hreha (RAY-ha), now line at the University of Illinois. He assisted the he coached the running backs during the 2005 in his 30th year as assistant defensive line coach in planning and conducting season. football coach at DePauw, practices in addition to organizing and coaching the serves as defensive line coach. defensive and special teams scout teams. He also is an assistant track and Long, a native of Champaign, Ill., earned a bach- JAMIE ZORBO field coach at DePauw. elor of science of applied life degree from Illinois. Linebackers Throughout the years, the A three-year varsity letterman for the Fighting Tigers’ defense has been ranked among the nation’s Illini, Long played on the 2001 outright Big Ten Jamie Zorbo enters his sec- leaders. The Tigers led the Indiana Collegiate Athletic champion squad that finished with a 10-2 record and ond year as an assistant coach Conference in rushing, total and scoring defense competed in the 2002 Sugar Bowl. He also played on at DePauw and will coach the in 1995. The 1983 Tigers led all of Division III in the squad that won the 1999 Micron PC Bowl and linebackers. Zorbo also serves rushing defense by allowing just 41.6 yards on the finished with an 8-4 record. Long was the team’s the University as a strength ground. defensive player of the week after the California coach. Hreha was a three-year letterman in football for game in 2001. Zorbo graduated from DePauw and co-captain during his senior year. A Long and his wife, Stacy, reside in suburban Kalamazoo College in 2000 with a bachelor’s de- three-year starter at defensive tackle, Hreha earned Indianapolis. gree in chemistry before earning a master’s degree the team’s spirit award as a junior. in business administration from Western Michigan After graduating in 1973 with a B.A. degree in University in 2004. history, he earned the M.A.T. degree in physical DUSTIN WARD An assistant coach at Kalamazoo since 2000, education in 1976 while serving as graduate assistant Offensive Coordinator Zorbo was named the defensive coordinator in 2004 football coach. Hreha has also served as head men’s Quarterbacks and the assistant head coach in December 2005. and women’s track and field coach at DePauw and He coached six all-Michigan Intercollegiate coached Alan Hill to a national pole vault champion- Dustin Ward returns to Athletic Association players including Division III’s ship as well as two additional all-America awards. DePauw as the offensive leading tackler and conference defensive player of coordinator after previously the year in 2004. Zorbo earned four letters for the serving as the running backs Hornets as a defensive end and was an all-Michigan BOBBY JACKSON coach during the 2004 season.