The Wolfpacker: An Independent Magazine Covering NC State Sports
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tracking the PACK NC State Hires Assistant Volleyball Coach ��� Red And White Notebook The NC State women���s volleyball program has hired Kimberly Martinez as an assistant coach. Martinez spent the last four seasons as the top assistant at Marshall, after serving as the head coach for three seasons at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, where she was one of the youngest head coaches in NCAA Division I. ���We are excited about adding Kimberly to our staff,��� NC State fourth-year head coach Bryan Bunn said.���She brings a wealth of experience to this job, in addition to her experience as a Division I head coach. I���ve known Kimberly since she played in college, and she has always had a passion and love for the game and coaching.��� Bunn expects Martinez ��� a native of Sugar Land, Texas, who played collegiately at Texas A&M-Kingsville ��� to work with the team���s outside hitters and passers. She will also recruit the West Coast. ���She���s been doing this a long time now and knows the sport very well,��� Bunn said. ���She also has a lot of contacts that will help us out.��� Martinez also served as the top assistant at Texas-El Paso for two seasons before leaving for the head job at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Martinez served as recruiting coordinator, defensive coordinator and outside hitters coach for the Miners. She also was an assistant coach at Rice in 2002. Football Team ��� Loses Five Players NC State has lost five players prematurely from last year���s team, including starting outside linebacker Rickey Dowdy to Cumberland, a NAIA college in Lebanon, Tenn. Dowdy ranked third on the team with 88 tackles, led the squad with 16.5 tackles for loss, and added 3.5 sacks and two fumble recoveries during his redshirt junior season.The High Point, N.C., played one snap his previous two seasons with the Wolfpack. Redshirt junior defensive end Sylvester Crawford, who had two tackles this past season, is transferring to North Carolina-Pembroke. Crawford, a native of Charlotte, played in 13 games and had five tackles at NCSU. Redshirt freshman wide receiver Hakeem Flowers of Simpsonville, S.C., played in nine games, but never caught a pass for the Wolfpack. Flowers didn���t make the trip to the Music City Bowl and left NC State���s football team in January. Linebacker Michael Peek of Grayson, Ga., has also departed the program. He missed last year due to an ACL injury, but played 13 games as a true freshman in 2011, mostly on special teams. He finished with seven tackles in 29 plays, including a sack against Clemson. Redshirt freshman defensive end Dave Mann also left the program. Mann played three snaps in his shortlived Wolfpack career, all in the season opener against Tennessee last year. The 6-3, 249-pounder from Fairburn (Ga.) Lithonia High redshirted his first year and earned defensive scout team honors prior to the Georgia Tech game. Six Former NC State Football Coaches Find New Jobs Former NC State head coach Tom O���Brien and five of his assistant coaches have landed jobs at new schools. Former NC State head coach Tom O'Brien is now the tight ends coach and assistant head coach at Virginia, where he had previously been an assistant for 15 seasons. photo by Ken Martin O���Brien and former Wolfpack linebackers coach Jon Tenuta secured positions at one of their previous stops. O���Brien was named the tight ends coach and assistant head coach at Virginia, and Tenuta was hired as the Cavaliers defensive coordinator. O���Brien was an assistant at Virginia for 15 seasons (1982-96) before getting hired at Boston College as a head coach in 1997. Tenuta is a former UVa football player and was a graduate assistant coach for the Cavaliers from 1981-82. Former NC State defensive line coach Keith Willis��Sr. was hired by the Montreal Alouettes. Willis, who played in the NFL from 1982-93, will work under new Montreal head coach Dan Hawkins, who is a former head coach at Boise State and Colorado. Hawkins replaced Marc Trestman, a former Wolfpack offensive coordinator who was hired to be the Chicago Bears head coach this offseason. Willis coached under O���Brien at Boston College and NC State from 2001-12. He also coached the defensive line at Cincinnati and Slippery Rock. Offensive line coach Jim Bridge, who also followed O���Brien down from BC, was hired by Illinois. Wide receivers coach Troy Walters spent one year in Raleigh and landed at Colorado following the coaching transition. Defensive backs coach Mike Reed was hired for the same position at rival ACC school Clemson. NC State retained Des Kitchings as the running backs coach under new head coach Dave Doeren. 16��� ������ the wolfpacker 12,14,16,18,20,22.Tracking The Pack.indd 16 2/26/13 3:44 PM