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COACH OF THE YEAR WINNERS
December 11, 2008
TRINE UNIVERSITY’S LAND AMONG 2008 AFCA
REGIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR WINNERS
WACO, TEX. —
Another honor is coming to Trine University football. The American Football
Coaches Association has honored Head Coach Matt Land as NCAA Division III Co-Region Four Coach of the Year. Land shares
the honor with Larry Kehres of perennial power Mount Union College.
In his third
year at the helm of the Thunder program, Land led Trine to a 10-0 regular-season and the university’s first ever NCAA
playoff berth. In its first three years of Division III football, the Thunder managed a 2-28 record. In his tenure at
Trine, Land is 18-13.
Land was also Summit Athletic Conference Coach of the Year at Fort Wayne
South Side High School in the fall of 2005. He was also named United Indoor Football Coach of the Year in the summer
of 2005 leading the Fort Wayne Freedom to a 14-2 record regular season record.
Other winners
include, first time winners Brady Hoke of Ball State and Henry Frazier of Prairie View A&M and seven-time winner
Mel
Tjeerdsma of Northwest Missouri State highlight today's announcement of the American Football Coaches Association's
2008 Reginal Coach of the Year winners.
The AFCA recognizes five regional Coach of
the Year winners in each of the Association’s five divisions: Football Bowl Subdivision, Football Championship Subdivision,
NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.
The winners are selected by Active members of the
Association who vote for coaches in their respective regions and divisions.
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