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shane<br />
beamer<br />
aSSociate head<br />
coach and running<br />
backS coach<br />
the coach Beamer fIle<br />
PERSONAL<br />
Born: 3/31/77, Charleston, S.C.<br />
Hometown: Blacksburg, Va.<br />
Wife: former Emily Gladney<br />
Children: Sutton, Olivia<br />
EDUCATION<br />
High School: Blacksburg High School<br />
College: Virginia Tech (1999)<br />
Postgraduate: Tennessee (2003)<br />
PLAYING EXPERIENCE<br />
Virginia Tech (1995-99)<br />
COACHING EXPERIENCE<br />
2000 Georgia Tech (graduate assistant)<br />
2001-03 Tennessee (graduate assistant)<br />
2004-05 Mississippi State (cornerbacks)<br />
2006 Mississippi State (running backs/<br />
recruiting coordinator)<br />
2007 South Carolina (outside linebackers/<br />
co-special teams coordinator)<br />
2008 South Carolina (cornerbacks)<br />
2009-10 South Carolina (Spurs/strong<br />
safeties/special teams/<br />
recruiting coordinator)<br />
2011- Virginia Tech (associate head coach/<br />
running backs)<br />
BOWL/PLAYOFF EXPERIENCE<br />
Player<br />
1995 Sugar (Virginia Tech vs. Texas)<br />
1996 Orange (Virginia Tech vs. Nebraska)<br />
1997 Gator (Virginia Tech vs. North Carolina)<br />
1998 Music City (Virginia Tech vs. Alabama)<br />
1999 Sugar (Virginia Tech vs. Florida State)<br />
Coach<br />
2000 Peach (Georgia Tech vs. LSU)<br />
2001 Citrus (Tennessee vs. Michigan)<br />
2002 Peach (Tennessee vs. Maryland)<br />
2003 Peach (Tennessee vs. Clemson)<br />
2008 Outback (South Carolina vs. Iowa)<br />
2009 Papajohns.<strong>com</strong> (South Carolina<br />
vs. Connecticut)<br />
2010 Chick-fil-A (South Carolina<br />
vs. Florida State)<br />
2011 Sugar (Virginia Tech vs. Michigan)<br />
2012 Virginia Tech fooTball<br />
Former Virginia Tech long snapper and receiver<br />
Shane Beamer is in his second season on the<br />
Hokies’ coaching staff as the associate head<br />
coach and running backs coach after spending<br />
four seasons at the University of South Carolina.<br />
In his first year back in Blacksburg, he<br />
mentored David Wilson, who broke the school’s<br />
single-season rushing record and was named<br />
both an AP All-American and the ACC’s Player<br />
of the Year and went on to be taken in the first<br />
round of the NFL Draft by the New York Giants.<br />
Beamer coached several spots for the<br />
Gamecocks, including the spurs and strong<br />
safeties, as well as serving as the special teams<br />
coordinator in both 2009 and 2010. Beamer was<br />
also Carolina’s recruiting coordinator, duties he<br />
took on following the conclusion of the 2008<br />
regular season.<br />
In 2009, Beamer’s special team units recorded<br />
five blocked kicks, tying for the SEC lead and<br />
tying for the eighth-highest total in the nation.<br />
Beamer helped coach a defense that ranked<br />
third in the SEC and 15th in the country in total<br />
defense and second in the league and eighth in<br />
the land in passing defense.<br />
Beamer’s first class as the recruiting<br />
coordinator (2009) was ranked the nation’s<br />
12th-best class by both Rivals.<strong>com</strong> and Scout.<br />
<strong>com</strong> and the 2010 and 2011 recruiting classes<br />
were again ranked among the nation’s top 25.<br />
Beamer was nominated for the 2009 Frank<br />
Broyles Assistant Coach of the Year award<br />
following the season.<br />
Beamer joined the South Carolina staff in<br />
2007, coaching the outside linebackers and<br />
serving as the co-coordinator of special teams<br />
in his first season in Columbia. He worked with<br />
the cornerbacks in his second campaign. That<br />
2008 unit was one of the most productive on<br />
the field as they were part of a defensive squad<br />
that finished the regular season ranked second<br />
in the nation in pass defense and 13th in total<br />
defense.<br />
Beamer went to South Carolina after spending<br />
the previous three seasons at Mississippi State<br />
University. He was hired by Sylvester Croom in<br />
January 2004 to coach the Bulldog cornerbacks<br />
under defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson. In<br />
his first two seasons at MSU he guided three<br />
defensive backs to Freshman All-SEC accolades.<br />
He made the move to running backs coach in the<br />
spring of 2006. He also served as the program’s<br />
recruiting coordinator.<br />
Beamer went to Mississippi State from the<br />
University of Tennessee, where he spent three<br />
seasons as a graduate assistant helping with the<br />
cornerbacks, coaching the place-kickers, punters<br />
and long snappers and assisting in all special<br />
teams areas.<br />
He also oversaw game opponent scouting<br />
while at UT and earned a master’s degree in<br />
sport science in December 2003.<br />
Prior to joining the staff at Tennessee,<br />
Beamer worked one season (2000) as a graduate<br />
assistant at Georgia Tech, helping with the<br />
Yellow Jacket quarterbacks and wide receivers.<br />
Beamer earned his bachelor’s degree from<br />
Virginia Tech in 1999 and was the Hokies’<br />
starting long snapper for three seasons. He also<br />
contributed as a wide receiver. He played on<br />
four bowl teams and three Big East Conference<br />
championship squads.<br />
He concluded his college playing career by<br />
helping the 1999 Hokies to a No. 2 final regularseason<br />
ranking and a berth in the national<br />
championship game played against Florida State<br />
in the Sugar Bowl.<br />
Born in Charleston, S.C., Beamer is the son<br />
of longtime Virginia Tech head football coach<br />
Frank Beamer. He is married to the former Emily<br />
Gladney, a Starkville, Miss., native. The couple<br />
has two daughters, Sutton (4) and Olivia (2).
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