2010 Mount Union Football Guide - University of Mount Union

assistant coaches & staff
VINCe Kehres
Defensive CoorDinator
Vince Kehres enters his 11h year as an assistant
football coach and sixth season as Mount Union’s defensive
coordinator. His unit has constantly ranked statistically
among the top of all of NCAA Division III and in 2009 they
led the nation in sacks (49) and were No. 3 in total defense
and No. 2 in scoring defense. The Purple Raiders also swept
every OAC defensive player of the year award, defensive
line, linebacker and defensive back, last season.
A 1998 graduate of Mount Union, he was a four-year letterwinner (1994-97) at defensive
end for the Purple Raiders, a member of two National Championship teams (1996 &
1997) and earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors during his senior year 1997.
During his playing career, Kehres totaled 62 hits, 12 tackles for loss and was a key
member of the special teams unit. He was part of a 1997 defense that led all of Division III in
fewest points allowed (5.6 ppg) and rushing defense (48.6 ypg) while posting five shutouts
and setting a Raider single-season mark for sacks in a season (53 in 10 regular season
games).
He and his wife, Lindsay, have two sons, Evan and Bo.
ZaC BrUNeY
offensive CoorDinator
Zac Bruney is in his second season as the Purple Raiders’
offensive coordinator. A year ago, his offense was No. 1
in the nation in pass efficiency and featured the nation’s top
rated passer for the nation’s No. 2 scoring attack and No. 3
rated scoring offense.
Bruney, a two-year starter and four-year letterwinner at
quarterback for Mount Union graduated in 2005 and spent
two years as an assistant coach with the Purple Raiders
before spending two season as an assistant coach at The University of Toledo.
As a player, Bruney was the top rated passer in all of NCAA Division III in 2003 and
2004 and was the 2004 recipient of the then Gregory Award as the top offensive back in the
Ohio Athletic Conference. His 5,769 career passing yards is the fifth-highest total in Mount
Union history.
Bruney, an Academic All-American, also earned the 2005 OAC Clyde Lamb Award as
one of the top male scholar athletes in the conference and along with a bachelor’s degree
from Mount Union holds a master’s degree from Toledo.
JeFF WOJTOWICZ
seConDary
Jeff Wojtowicz (wo-TOE-vich) enters his 25th year as
an assistant coach on the Raider staff and is in charge of
the secondary.
A 1984 Mount Union graduate, he was a three-year
letterwinner as a defensive back from 1981-83, earning
All-OAC honorable mention honors his senior year as team
co-captain.
In 2001, Wojtowicz earned the National Football Foundation’s
Northeastern Ohio Assistant Coach of the Year Award. In 2004, he was named the
OAC Co-Assistant Coach of the Year as voted on by the conference’s head coaches. In 2006,
Wojtowicz was honored by being named the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA)
Division III Assistant Coach of the Year.
Prior to returning to Alliance in 1986, Wojtowicz served as a graduate assistant in the
physical education department at Indiana State University in 1984 and as an assistant coach
at Wittenberg University in 1985. Aside from his duties on the gridiron, Wojtowicz serves as
an instructor in the College’s Health and Physical Education Department and is in his 15th
year coaching the Mount Union men’s and women’s tennis programs.
ChrIs KaPPas
Defensive Line
Chris Kappas in his third year as an assistant coach at
Mount Union and will work with the defensive line. A 2008
Mount Union graduate, Kappas was a three-year letterwinner
at defensive back that earned Academic All-OAC and
Academic All-District honors while being a member of the
2005 and 2006 National Championship teams.
KeITh WaKeFIeLD
offensive Line
Keith Wakefield enters his fifth season on the Mount
Union staff and will coach the offensive line. Prior to joining
the Raiders, Wakefield spent two years (2004 and 2005)
as head coach at Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary’s High School.
Before that he had a highly successful stint as head coach
at Massillon Perry High School (1982-2003) where his
teams compiled a 157-72 record, 12 Federal League titles
and reached the Ohio Division I State semifinals in 2000.
Wakefield also had head coaching stops at Mansfield
Madison and Austintown Fitch high schools.
PaUL GULLING
reCeivers
Paul Gulling is in his third season in his second stint
on the Mount Union coaching staff and will work with the
wide receivers. Gulling, a 1980 Mount Union graduate, has
a total of eight years on the staff after he served six years
as assistant coach with the Raiders from 1997-2002. As a
player, he was a three-time All-OAC first team pick and an
1979 AP All-American who ranks among the school receiving
leaders with 130 receptions. Gulling signed a professional
contract with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian
Football League and was inducted into the Mount Union M-Club Hall of Fame in 1998.
CLYDe rOss
KiCKers
Clyde Ross is in 16th year as an assistant coach at
Mount Union in charge of the kickers. Ross played at Morris
Harvey (W.Va.) College (now University of Charleston) in
1955-56 and Southern Illinois University in 1957-58. A
1969 graduate of Bowling Green State University, Ross was
an assistant football coach at the Falcons in 1968. In 1969
he moved on to be an assistant at United High School in
Hanoverton, Ohio, and from 1970 t0 1976 served as an
assistant coach at Salem High School.
eD hOGYa
tight enDs
Ed Hogya returns as an assistant football coach
and will work with the tight ends. Hogya has served two
previous stints on the Mount Union football staff and was a
three-year letterwinner for the Raiders from 1986-88. As a
senior in 1988, he was an All-OAC First Team receiver.
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