Football
- Title:
- Secondary Coach
- Email:
- srpowell@bsu.edu
- Phone:
- 765.285.8251
Coaching Experience:
11th Year as a football coach
Massachusetts, graduate assistant, 1998-99
Sacred Heart, assistant, 2000-01
Northeastern, assistant, 2002-03
Massachusetts, assistant, 2004-05
Ball State, assistant, 2006-present
? 2006-08 - Secondary
NOTES: Helped the Ball State defense register 19 interceptions, which was the fifth best single-season mark in Ball State history . . . Tutored defensive back B.J. Hill, who earned All-Mid-American Conference Second-Team honors in 2007 . . . Coached Hill and Trey Lewis, who both tied for 40th in the nation in interceptions per game with a 0.38 mark . . . Tutored safety Erik Keys , who was named to the All-MAC Second Team in 2006 . . . Keys signed a free agent contract with the Tennessee Titans in the spring of 2007, after being named Ball State’s Most Valuable Player for the 2006 campaign . . . Helped Massachusetts rank first in the nation in scoring defense in NCAA IAA in 2005 . . . UMass also led the Atlantic 10 Conference in total defense, pass defense and pass defense efficiency . . . Tutored Shannon James, who was an all-conference first-team choice in 2005 and was the 2004 Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year . . . Powell served in the National Football League’s Summer Internship Program as a defensive backfield assistant for the Seattle Seahawks in the summer of 2001.
Personal Information:
Family: Married to the former Charmer Chadan . . . one son, Brandon.
High School: Newnan H.S. (Class of 1993), in Newnan, Ga.
College: Bachelor’s - Morehouse College ?97
NOTES: Was a three-year starter and four-year letterwinner in football at Morehouse.
