2017 Florida Atlantic Football Media Guide
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QUICK FACTS School ................................................................ Florida Atlantic Assistant Coaches Location ............................................................Boca Raton, Fla. Assistant Head Coach/OC/QBs ..................Kendal Briles Founded ................................................................................... 1961 Co-Defensive Coordinator/LB ........................ϐ Enrollment .........................................................................30,000 Safeties/Special Teams/Co-Defensive Coordinator . Corey Batoon Nickname ................................................................................Owls Defensive Line/Recruiting Coordinator .Eric Mathies Colors .......................................................................Blue and Red Wide Receivers ....................................................Gary Harrell Home Stadium ..................................................... FAU Stadium Corners .......................................................... Keynodo Hudson Capacity ............................................................................... 29,495 Offensive Line ...................................................... Garin Justice Surface .................................................................. Natural Grass Running Backs.......................................................Kevin Smith First Year of Football .........................................................2001 Graduate Assistant (Def.) ................................... Joe Bolden ϐ .................................................NCAA FBS Graduate Assistant (Def.) ...................................CJ Johnson Basic Offense ..............................................................Up-Tempo Graduate Assistant (Off.) .....................Mike Nysewander Basic Defense .................................................................Multiple Graduate Assistant (Off.) ...........................Chris Rutledge Conference ......................................................Conference USA Strength and Conditioning ..............................Wilson Love President .........................................................Dr. John W. Kelly Assistant Strength and Conditioning ....Connor Neighbors Athletic Director .........................................................Pat Chun Team Information Media Information Letter Winners Returning ................................................... 63 SID ..............................................................Katrina McCormack Offensive .......................................................................................26 ϐ ....................................................... 561-297-3163 Defensive ......................................................................................30 Cell Phone ............................................................ 561-251-5588 Special Teams ............................................................................... 2 E-Mail .........................................................kmccormi@fau.edu Letter Winners Lost .................................................................. 8 Web Site ...............................................................fausports.com Offensive ......................................................................................... 4 Defensive ........................................................................................ 3 Coaching Staff Specialty .......................................................................................... 1 Head Coach ................................................................ϐ Starters Returning/Lost ..................................................20/6 Alma Mater.................................................... Fresno State, ‘96 Offense ........................................................................................ 8/3 Collegiate Head Coaching Record .............................35-21 Defense ....................................................................................... 9/2 Head Coaching Record at FAU...........................................0-0 Specialty ..................................................................................... 3/1 Years as a Head Coach...........................................................6th FAU 2016 Record .....................................................................3-9 FAU 2016 Conference Record ...........................................2-6 ϐ ........................................................561-297-1094 2017 FOOTBALL MEDIA GUIDE 3 FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY Founded in 1961, Florida Atlantic University is a NCAA Division I football team that has won two bowl comprehensive public university that is currently games. The Boca Raton campus is home to a 30,000- serving more than 30,000 undergraduate and seat football stadium. graduate students at sites strategically located along FAU’s 10 academically distinguished colleges are the state’s southeastern coastline. Long known as an the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, outstanding teaching institution, FAU is undergoing the College of Business, the College of Design and rapid development as a center of cutting-edge Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College research, particularly in the biomedical arena. The of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate process has been accelerated by the University’s College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the partnerships with two-internationally known Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine biomedical research organizations: The Scripps E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt Research Institute and the Max Planck Florida College of Science. Institute for Neuroscience. Additionally, FAU’s The University currently offers more than 180 Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine recently undergraduate and graduate degree programs and welcomed its fourth class of students. is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges Through a well-developed network of partner and Schools. Additionally, the University holds campuses, FAU serves students at locations and sites membership in the National Association of State throughout its six-county service region in southeast Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and the Council Florida as well as through distance learning. FAU’s of Graduate Schools. student body, which ranks as the most ethnically FAU has fully-funded Eminent Scholar Chairs and culturally diverse in Florida’s State University in disciplines that include the arts of humanities, System, includes men and women in both traditional brain science, community education, engineering, and non-traditional age. Modern student housing is growth management, Holocaust and Judaic studies, available on the Boca Raton and Jupiter campuses, international business, marine biology, nursing, and all campuses offer attractive and varied dining philosophy and social science. facilities. The University community is served by an FAU is committed to serving the educational excellent library system that has more than 374,000 needs of persons of retirement age through non- full-text electronic books and 18,000 full-text credit courses offered by the Lifelong Learning electronic journals, plus access to several hundred Society, which is believed to be the largest and most proprietary databases. successful organization of its kind in the United A member of Conference USA, FAU has 19 men’s States. For more information on Florida Atlantic and women’s intercollegiate teams, including the University, visit www.fau.edu. 4 FAU FOOTBALL UNIVERSITY DR. JOHN KELLY PRESIDENT | FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY John Kelly was named president of Florida Atlantic world’s most distinguished biomedical researchers, University by unanimous vote of the FAU Board of including Nobel Laureates. Trustees on January 17, 2014, becoming the seventh President Kelly came to FAU from Clemson president in the University’s 50-year history. Upon University, where he held a succession of leadership his arrival, President Kelly declared his intention positions over a 28-year period. As president of FAU, to make FAU the fastest-improving university in he oversees an institution that currently serves more America, and it soon became clear that goal was than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students within reach. In 2016, the Florida Board of Governors on six campuses along more than 100 miles of ranked FAU the top-performing public university in Florida’s east coast. One of the largest employers in the state, based on the Board’s performance-based South Florida, FAU has more than 3,000 employees, funding metrics across 11 participating universities. including 1,000 dedicated faculty members, and ǯϐ an operating budget in excess of $750 million. The ϐ Ǧ University has an annual economic impact of $6.3 $16 million gift from the Schmidt Family Foundation billion and is conducting millions of dollars’ worth to build a premier academic/athletic facility on ϐ the Boca Raton campus — the largest single gift as drug discovery, biotechnology, ocean engineering in the University’s history. He also announced an and marine science. agreement with Scripps Florida and the Max Planck President Kelly holds a bachelor’s degree from Florida Institute for Neuroscience to establish a Clemson and both a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from unique partnership on the Jupiter campus. The The Ohio State University. He is married to FAU First program offers FAU students