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HEAD COACH DAVE DOEREN<br />
Drake ‘93 • 18-19 at <strong>NC</strong> State, 41-23 overall<br />
“This is a blue collar school. This is a<br />
work ethic, hands in the dirt school.<br />
It’s an agricultural school, it’s a textile<br />
school, an engineering school founded<br />
by tough people and that’s what this<br />
football team will be. That’s what we<br />
were today. We’re proud of our guys for<br />
representing N.C. State the right way.”<br />
Dave Doeren following the Wolfpack’s<br />
35-7win over U<strong>NC</strong>, Nov. 29, <strong>2014</strong><br />
Hard work and toughness: In his 21<br />
years in the coaching profession, Dave<br />
Doeren, 44, has learned the importance<br />
of those traits in building a championship<br />
team and has worked relentlessly<br />
to instill that attitude into the young men under his direction.<br />
After eschewing medical school to follow his passion, Doeren has climbed rapidly<br />
through the coaching ranks and was one of the youngest head coaches in the<br />
nation when he took over the Wolfpack program in December of 2012.<br />
He came to <strong>NC</strong> State after leading the program at Northern Illinois to its most<br />
successful two years in program history. His first Husky squad won the school’s<br />
first Mid-American Conference Championship since 1983 and tied the school record<br />
with 11 wins. His second version repeated as league champions and set a<br />
new school record by posting 12 victories for the season and earned a trip to the<br />
Orange Bowl - the first BCS berth ever for a MAC school. Doeren was a finalist for<br />
several national coach of the year awards following the 2012 campaign.<br />
Under Doeren’s leadership, NIU boasted the nation’s longest conference winning<br />
streak with 17 straight wins versus MAC opponents. The Huskies never lost a<br />
home game during his tenure in DeKalb, winning a dozen home contests in his<br />
With his 2015 squad heading to the Belk Bowl, Doeren has now coached bowl<br />
eligible teams in 11 of his 14 years in Division 1. With one of the nation’s youngest<br />
teams, he went to battle against three teams that ended the regular season<br />
ranked in the top 10. <strong>NC</strong> State won four road games in 2015, more than any<br />
Wolfpack squad since 2002. In fact, no Wolfpack squad has turned in more road<br />
victories since 1957.<br />
In <strong>2014</strong>, his second year as the head coach at <strong>NC</strong> State, his team, was the second-most<br />
improved in the Power 5 conferences. The Wolfpack more than doubled<br />
its win total from the previous season, earned a bowl victory and posted its<br />
highest team GPA in program history.<br />
The <strong>2014</strong> Wolfpack squad was only the second in school history to score 40 or<br />
more points in five regular season games and posted its best rushing average<br />
since 1992. Off the field, his squad has turned in almost 4,000 collective hours of<br />
community service since he took over as head coach.<br />
QUICK FACTS<br />
Playing Experience: High<br />
School: Played at Bishop Miege<br />
High School; College: Fouryear<br />
letterwinner at tight end<br />
and Academic All-American<br />
at Drake.<br />
Education: Earned a BS in<br />
pre-medical biology from<br />
Drake in 1993, a master’s degree<br />
in educational leadership<br />
from Drake in 1999 and began<br />
work on his Ph.D. at USC.<br />
Personal Data: Married to the<br />
former Sara Vander Woude<br />
from Chariton, Iowa. The couple<br />
has three sons: Jacob (15),<br />
Luke (13), Connor (8).<br />
YEAR-BY-YEAR WITH DAVE DOEREN<br />
Year School Position Record Postseason Notes<br />
1994 Shawnee Mission HS Assistant Coach<br />
1995 Drake Linebackers 8-1-1<br />
1996 Drake Linebackers 8-3<br />
1997 Drake Linebackers/Defensive coor. 8-3<br />
1998 USC Graduate Assistant 8-5 Sun Bowl<br />
1999 USC Graduate Assistant 6-6<br />
2000 Montana Defensive Secondary 13-2 IAA Runner-ups Big Sky Champions<br />
2001 Montana Defensive Secondary 15-1 I-AA Champions Big Sky Champions<br />
2002 Kansas LB/Recruiting Coordinator 2-10<br />
2003 Kansas LB/Recruiting Coordinator 6-7 Tangerine Bowl<br />
2004 Kansas LB/Recruiting Coordinator 4-7<br />
2005 Kansas LB/Co-Defensive Coordinator 7-5 Ft. Worth Bowl<br />
2006 Wisconsin Co-Def. Coor./Rec. Coor./LBs 12-1 Capital One Bowl<br />
2007 Wisconsin Co-Def, Coor./Rec. Coor./LBs 9-4 Outback Bowl<br />
2008 Wisconsin Defensive Coordinator/LBs 7-6 Champs Sports Bowl<br />
2009 Wisconsin Defensive Coordinator/LBs 10-3 Champs Sports Bowl<br />
2010 Wisconsin Defensive Coordinator/LBs 11-2 Rose Bowl Big 10 Champions<br />
2011 Northern Illinois Head Coach 11-3 GoDaddy.com Bowl MAC Champions<br />
2012 Northern Illinois Head Coach 12-1 *Orange Bowl MAC Champions<br />
2013 <strong>NC</strong> State Head Coach 3-9<br />
<strong>2014</strong> <strong>NC</strong> State Head Coach 8-5 Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl<br />
2015 <strong>NC</strong> State Head Coach 7-5 Belk Bowl<br />
* - Team competed in Orange Bowl after Doeren was named head coach at <strong>NC</strong> State<br />
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