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- Title:
- Head Football Coach
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- Phone:
- (401) 341-3264
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- Email:
- robert.chesney@salve.edu
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- Recruiting Area:
- RI, NY (518 area code), Central MA, Eastern MA (I-90 South), CA
Bio
Bob Chesney begins his first season as head football coach at Salve Regina. Chesney spent the past five years at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., where he assumed the roles of special teams coordinator, recruiting coordinator, strength and conditioning coordinator and defensive coordinator before he was named associate head coach in 2009.
The Blue Jays recorded a 10-3 mark in 2009 and advanced to the
quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III Tournament. Led by their
nationally ranked defense, the Blue Jays scored road wins over
Hampden-Sydney (23-7) and Thomas More (31-29) en route to advancing
further than any Centennial Conference member ever had in the
tournament.
"I am honored to be selected as the head football coach at Salve
Regina University," said Chesney, who becomes the fourth head coach
in the history of the Salve Regina football program, succeeding Tim
Coen (1992-99), Art Bell (2000-05) and Chris Robertson (2006-09).
"In meeting with director of athletics Colin Sullivan and members
of his staff, there is no doubt that we share a strong excitement
about the future of Salve athletics and Salve football."
Chesney was instrumental in the recruitment of running back and
2009 Centennial Conference offensive player of the year Andrew
Kase, and he also recruited and coached the league's defensive
player of the year and current Salve Regina assistant coach, Colin
Wixted. His recruiting areas at Salve Regina include Rhode Island,
central and western Pennsylvania, California, Florida and
Texas.
Chesney's defense led the nation with 30 interceptions and ranked
20th in rushing defense and 23rd in overall defense. In the
conference, the Blue Jays were tops in nearly every major
statistical category on defense, including scoring defense (14.0
ppg), turnover margin (+14), rushing defense (66.8 ypg), total
yards (241 ypg), pass defense efficiency (96.7) and sacks (31).
Chesney's student-athletes did the job both on the field in the
classroom, as evidenced by the selection of 16 student-athletes to
the all-conference team, and the placement of nine on the
conference's academic honor roll.
Prior to his arrival at Johns Hopkins, Chesney was an assistant
coach at King's College (Pa.), where he served as special teams
coordinator and the director of football operations. He has also
spent time at Delaware Valley College (2002-03) as defensive and
strength and conditioning coordinator while assisting with
recruiting, and Norwich University (2000-02) as assistant football
coach.
Chesney, a member of the American Football Coaches Association
(AFCA) and Cross Fit Football Strength and Conditioning certified,
has done work with the Salvation Army's Adopt-A-Family Christmas
and the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. Chesney has also worked
with the Special Olympics, including organizing a fund raiser
called "Cowboy Up," which helped raise more than $3,000 for the
organization in Pennsylvania.
A 2000 graduate of Dickinson College, Chesney was a four-year
letter-winner for the Red Devils football program. He received the
Vincent Correal team MVP award as a sophomore in 1997, served as
team captain his senior year and garnered All-Centennial Conference
honors in 1998 and 1999.