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Avila
Hires Former K.C. Chief as New Head Football Coach
KANSAS CITY,
Mo. – Avila University's athletic director Anthony Hall announced
today the hiring of Kevin Porter as the new head football coach.
“Coach Porter
brings the passion, experience and focus on hard work and discipline
that we believe will move our program to be competitive year in
and year out,” said Hall. “He has played and learned from great
coaches like Marty Schottenheimer, Pete Carroll, Bill Cowher,
Pat Dye, Tony Dungy and Herm Edwards and will share that expertise
with our student-athletes.”
A native of
Warner Robins, Ga., Porter attended Auburn University on a full
football scholarship, was a starter on defense all four years
and was named second team All American. He was drafted in 1988
in the third round of the NFL draft and played for six years with
the Kansas City Chiefs and New York Jets as cornerback and safety.
Porter completed his undergraduate degree in business at Avila
University in 2009.
Porter has
coached different defensive positions and at different levels
since the completion of his playing career. He has coached for
ten years in the Arena Football League as an assistant and head
coach, most recently as the head coach of the Kansas City Brigade.
During the past year, he has served as defensive coordinator for
MidAmerica Nazarene University, one of Avila's opponents in the
Heart of America Conference of the National Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics (NAIA). Porter also brings experience in recruiting,
having been responsible for all aspects of the college recruiting
programs for two different sports agencies.
Porter looks
forward to taking on the challenge of the head coaching duties
at his alma mater and working with current and future college
level players.
“I expect to
build a program that will annually compete for the conference
championship and the playoffs, and to do it with student-athletes
of character who will compete both on the field and in the classroom,”
Porter said.
“I expect to build a
program that will annually compete for the conference championship
and the playoffs, and to do it with student-athletes of character
who will compete both on the field and in the classroom,” Porter
said.
Avila's president
Ron Slepitza also expressed his great satisfaction in being able
to attract one of the university's alumni to fill this important
position.
“Coach Porter,
through his own experience as a student at Avila, will be able
to articulate and contribute to the distinctive nature and value
of the educational experience at Avila for our student-athletes
who play football. We look forward to him being part of our team.”
Porter is a
resident of Shawnee, Kan. with his wife, Annjela, and two young
sons, Jacob and Kellen.
Avila University
is a private, co-educational, values-based liberal arts institution
founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and is located
at 119th and Wornall Rd. in southwest suburban Kansas City, Mo.
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