Youngblood Named Head Football Coach

Youngblood Named Head Football Coach

December 22, 2011

(Thursday, December 22; Sioux Center, Iowa)? Dordt College has announced Greg Youngblood as its new head football coach.

Youngblood comes to Dordt College after holding assistant coaching positions at Taylor University (Indiana) and Waldorf College (Iowa) in 2005 and 2006 and the head coaching position at Waldorf College from 2007 to 2011.? Youngblood?s coaching career also includes positions in the high school ranks from 1997-2004.? He was the head football coach at West Mesa High School (New Mexico) for two seasons.

?Through the search and interview process it became evident that Coach Youngblood will continue to build a football program with a Reformed worldview, and he?ll push our program to improve on the field. We saw improvement in last year?s season, and we want that improvement to continue,? said Dordt College athletic director Glenn Bouma.

Youngblood is a nationally certified strength and conditioning specialist and is an active member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and American Football Coaches Association. He has a B.A. in Mathematics from Bates College (1994) and a B.A. in education from the College of Sante Fe at Albuquerque (1998).? Youngblood also has an M. S. in Sports Administration from the University of New Mexico (2002).

?Signs that we are achieving our goals and honoring God will be marked by four criteria,? wrote Youngblood in the interview and application process. ?First we will be known as a great character team that does everything with class. Second, we should show continual improvement. Third, we want to be a team of great effort and a team of great toughness. Lastly, we want to be a team that develops great relationships.?

Youngblood will start his position January 3.

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Source: http://www.dordt.edu/cgi-bin/news/get_news.pl?id=5388

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