Navy has promoted defensive coordinator Brian Newberry to go soccer coach, the athletic division introduced Monday.
Newberry, 48, replaces Ken Niumatalolo, who was fired the day after the Army-Navy Sport Dec. 10. Niumatalolo was Navy’s all-time winningest coach with a 109-83 profession document over 15 seasons.
The hiring was introduced simply after midday when Navy athletics issued a information launch. A information convention has been scheduled for Tuesday to introduce Newberry because the fortieth soccer coach in program historical past.
“Coach Newberry is revered and was extremely endorsed by many inside the Navy soccer household,” Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk stated in an announcement. “Brian is organized, revolutionary, clever, inspirational and brings an expectation of aggressive toughness that has made Navy one of many prime defensive items within the nation.”
Gladchuk stated Newberry’s expertise at quite a few civilian faculties, together with the 4 years on the Naval Academy, enabled him to “create a imaginative and prescient for Navy soccer that’s all-encompassing and really logical because it pertains to the best way forward.”
Newberry, in an announcement, thanked Gladchuk and Vice Adm. Sean Buck, the Naval Academy superintendent, for exhibiting confidence in him and offering “this unbelievable alternative.” Newberry additionally thanked Niumatalolo for “taking an opportunity on me” 4 years in the past.
“It’s a nice honor and privilege to guide this program. It’s a nice accountability that I totally settle for and embrace. I couldn’t be extra excited and optimistic about the way forward for Navy soccer,” Newberry stated.
Newberry known as the Naval Academy a “particular place” and stated there are nice younger males in this system. Newberry stated he believes “wholeheartedly” within the mission of the establishment and he is seen firsthand the impression it has on the lives of younger women and men who graduate and serve.
“Our tradition stays robust. We are going to facilitate the values and the mission of the Naval Academy inside our program. We are going to make the Navy soccer household and all related to the Naval Academy proud, each on and off the sphere,” he stated. “Go Navy! Beat everybody!”
Gladchuk additionally interviewed Kennesaw State head coach Brian Bohannon, a supply near Bohannon stated.
Bohannon, who was an assistant at Navy and Georgia Tech beneath Paul Johnson, owns a 68-24 general document in eight seasons at Kennesaw State, which is shifting up from the Soccer Championship Subdivision to Convention USA in July, 2024. It’s unclear if Gladchuk interviewed some other candidates for the emptiness.
Niumatalolo employed Newberry in 2019 after earlier defensive coordinator Dale Pehrson and a number of other different defensive assistants didn’t have their contracts renewed.
Newberry was employed from Kennesaw State in Georgia and was answerable for directing a dramatic turnaround of the Navy protection. The Midshipmen made vital enchancment in each main statistical class, shifting from the underside of the Soccer Bowl Subdivision to the higher third.
In 2019, Newberry was a semifinalist for the Frank Broyles Award as the highest assistant coach in FBS after Navy went from 86th to sixteenth in whole protection. The Midshipmen had been ranked tenth nationally in speeding protection that season.
Protection has been thought-about a energy of the Navy soccer program throughout Newberry’s 4 years. This previous season, the Midshipmen ranked sixth nationally in speeding protection, permitting 88.9 yards per recreation on the bottom.
Navy additionally completed eighth nationally in fewest first downs allowed, twentieth in sacks, twenty second in fumbles recovered and thirtieth in whole protection this season.
As well as, Navy has defended archrival Army properly the previous 4 conferences, permitting a median of 14 factors and 173 whole yards.
Gladchuk named Newberry interim coach on Dec. 11, the day Niumatalolo was fired. Throughout a information convention final Monday, Gladchuk confirmed that Newberry was a viable candidate to turn into head coach. Gladchuk made it clear that the soccer staff will proceed to make use of some model of triple-option offense going ahead.
“I like Brian, I like his type,” stated Gladchuk, describing Newberry as “extremely organized” and famous that defensive assistants and gamers revered him.
Newberry was defensive coordinator at Kennesaw State from 2015 to 2018. He has held the identical title at Northern Michigan, College of the South and Washington & Lee.
Till Navy, Newberry had coached at both the Soccer Championship Subdivision, Division II or III ranges. Contacted by The Capital final Monday, Newberry confirmed his want to turn into Navy head coach, saying it will be “an honor and a privilege.”
Navy inside linebackers coach P.J. Volker has been with Newberry for six years and is aware of him in addition to any member of the Navy workers. Volker, who adopted Newberry from Kennesaw State to Annapolis, has little doubt his boss will likely be a profitable head coach.
“Brian is a superb soccer coach. Anybody who has watched Kennesaw State and Navy soccer for the previous six years has seen that,” Volker stated. “I feel Brian is the fitting man to guide this program as a result of he loves the Naval Academy and all that its stands for, loves the mission of creating younger males into leaders and officers and goes to embrace that position.”
Volker stated he is seen how a lot Newberry cares in regards to the members of the Navy soccer program and has heard him converse in regards to the significance of molding these midshipmen in “all sides of their lives.”
“I am actually excited for Brian and I am excited for Navy soccer and your complete Naval Academy neighborhood as a result of I feel they bought themselves a heck of a soccer coach and a fair higher individual to guide this program,” stated Volker, who’s a number one candidate to turn into defensive coordinator.
Newberry met with Gladchuk quite a few occasions final week to debate the composition of the teaching workers, sources stated. Newberry knowledgeable Gladchuk that he may put collectively a powerful workers of offensive assistants with data of triple-option soccer.
He additionally outlined how the protection would function with him as head coach, presumably to incorporate which of his assistants can be named defensive coordinator.
Newberry, an Oklahoma native, is a 1998 graduate of Baylor College and was a defensive again on the soccer staff. He simply accomplished his twenty fourth season as a collegiate coach.
Newberry and his spouse, Kate, are the mother and father of a son, Max, and a daughter, Lyla.
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