Coaching Staff

	Tim Keating
	Head Coach
	Year at McDaniel: 16th Alma Mater: Bethany '75 Office Phone: 410-857-2582 Email: football@mcdaniel.edu

Entering his 16th season as the coach of the Green Terror, Keating is the most successful coach in McDaniel’s history.

The 23rd coach in the storied football tradition at McDaniel, Keating’s 96-57-3 mark at the College is 36 wins better than that of football legend and Hall of Fame Inductee Dick Harlow. He passed Harlow’s protege, Charlie Havens ’30, who finished his career with 77 wins, in 2003. With more championships than any coach in the College’s history, Keating has carved his place in one of small college football’s finest traditions.

With a 14-10 home victory over Juniata last season, Keating ushered McDaniel into the 500-win club, one of just 25 programs in Division III history to acheive the feat. He needs just four wins for his 100th on the Green Terror sideline.

Seventy-nine of Keating’s 96 wins at McDaniel have come over the past 11 seasons. The Green Terror ran off 33 straight conference wins en route to the handful of championships under Keating, who now has seven Centennial Conference crowns to his credit. He also led the squad to five straight appearances in the NCAA playoffs between 1997 and 2001 and saw his team invited to ECAC postseason play in 2002 and 2004.

In 1997, Western Maryland leaped from 4-6 the prior year to a mark of 10-1 and its first appearance in the NCAA tournament. For his efforts, Keating was named the Division III Coach of the Year by American Football Quarterly magazine.

That was not the first time Keating had orchestrated the turnaround of a program. Taking over at Wesley in 1988, Keating inherited a club with a two-year mark of 0-17, then steadily improved the program to a 9-2 powerhouse.

A native of Amherst, N.Y., Keating played football at Bethany College (W. Va.), where he picked up his 100th career win as a head coach in 2002. He graduated in 1975 with a degree in communications.

Keating broke into the collegiate coaching ranks with a pair of two-year stints as an assistant at Georgetown (1978-79) and DePauw (1980-81). Keating followed DePauw coach Jerry Berndt to the University of Pennsylvania (1982-85), where he helped construct a dynasty that dominated the Ivy League. He then moved to Rice University for the 1986 and 1987 seasons.

Now firmly entrenched in the longest coaching stint in his career, Keating has become a bit of a local celebrity in Westminster. Proof of that fact can be found on the menu at Harry’s Main Street Grill, which now features a “Coach Keating”-sized chili.

Keating resides in Westminster with his wife Claudia. The College has become a home away from home for the Keatings. Claudia received her master’s degree here in 2001. Keating’s son, Matt, was a four-year attackman on the Green Terror lacrosse team while his daughter, Hillary, begins her fourth year on the Hill this fall.

Now the assistant with the longest continuous tenure on the Green Terror staff, Bartolain enters his eighth season on the sideline.

After spending the last three seasons with the reins of the offensive line, Bartolain is commissioned with calling the offense in 2008. This year, his specific attention will turn to the running backs. Prior to his stint with the line, he spent his first four seasons as the special teams coordinator.

In that capacity, Bartolain’s players worked his system to success with three of his return specialists ranking in the top 45 in the nation in 2003 while his punt returner ranked 19th in the NCAA in 2004. His kicker and punter each earned All-Centennial Conference (CC) first-team honors in 2003 as did his return specialist in 2004.

He is also a certified strength and conditioning coach, and oversees the Green Terror’s physical training regimen and serves as the team’s recruiting coordinator.

A four-year starter for the Green Terror, Bartolain was the CC’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2000. He was also a Hewlett-Packard All-America honorable mention selection that season.

Bartolain is a native of Sarasota, Fla., and graduated from Western Maryland (now McDaniel) with a degree in physics. He lives in Sykesville with his wife Tara, who teaches in the exercise science and physical education department, and one-year-old daughter, Addisan.

Van Heusen enters his second season in charge of the Green Terror defense after spending six seasonson the Princeton staff.

In his debut campaign, McDaniel ranked third in the nine-team Centennial Conference in pass defense, an improvement from sixth in the seven-team league the season before he came aboard.

His arrival at McDaniel marked a return to the defensive side of the ball for Van Heusen. He worked a season with the secondary and two with the defensive line before shifting to offense before the 2004 season to coach the Tigers’ tight ends and tackles.

While at Princeton, he helped Jon Dekker earn first-team All-Ivy honors in 2005 after leading the Tigers in total catches and touchdown receptions. Dekker signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Van Heusen’s coaching career began while he was still an undergraduate at SUNY New Paltz, where he graduated in 2000. From 1997-98, he served as the head freshman coach and a varsity assistant, working with the quarterbacks, at James I. O’Neil High School in Highland Falls, N.Y.

During the 1999 season, Van Heusen worked with the defensive ends and outside linebackers of the lightweight football program at West Point before moving on to Siena to coach the running backs and slot backs.

Van Heusen and his wife Jennifer have two children, a son John (7) and a daughter Georgia (5).

	Zach Armiger
	Linebackers
	Year at McDaniel: 1st Alma Mater: Salisbury '07 Office Phone: 410-857-2585 Email: zarmiger@bcps.org

Armiger joins the Green Terror staff in 2008.

A two-time All-Atlantic Central Football Conference (AFCA) second-team selection at Salisbury, Armiger brings the experience of two conference championships, two ECAC bowl championships  and an NCAA appearance to the Hill.

A three-year starter at defensive end, he was a captain during his senior season of 2006. A member of the 2004 AFCA-champion squad that went 10-1, Armiger finished with 110 career tackles, including 35.5 for loss and 18 sacks.

The squad repeated as conference champions in 2005 before winning the ECAC Southeast Bowl championship to finish with an 8-3 record. In 2006, the 6-5 Sea Gulls won the ECAC South Atlantic Bowl.

Armiger, a physical education teacher at Milford Mill Academy in Baltimore, earned his bachelor of science in physical education in 2007.

	Chris Bassler
	Offensive Line
	Year at McDaniel: 1st Alma Mater: West Virginia '07 Office Phone: 410-857-2569 Email: rcb007@mcdaniel.edu

Following a successful career at West Virginia, Bassler returns home to join the Green Terror staff in 2008.

Bassler was a scholarship member of Mountaineers from 2003-06, playing offensive tackle on the 2004 and 2006 Gator Bowl teams and 2005 Sugar Bowl championship squad.

A 2003 graduate of Francis Scott Key, Bassler returned to his high school alma mater as the offensive and defensive line coach for the varsity squad last fall.

During his playing days at Key, he was a four-time All-MVAL selection and three times earned all-county honors. A member of the 2003 Baltimore Touchdown Club Super 22 team, he was a two-time all-state tight end and was named to the all-metro team by the Baltimore Sun.

Bassler graduated from West Virginia in 2007 with a bachelor of arts in history.

Fuhrman returned to the Hill for his third stint as a coach with the Green Terror in 2003. In his five seasons since, he has coached six All-CC linemen.

His first tour included the final year before Tim Keating’s arrival and the first year of Keating’s tenure in 1992 and 1993 when Fuhrman handled the same position group he is presently charged with.

After coaching several seasons of high school ball, Fuhrman returned for the 2000 season and worked primarily with the special teams.

A 1983 graduate of Frostburg, Fuhrman started at defensive end for two seasons before beginning his coaching career with the Bobcats.

The six-year high school head coach began his teaching career more than 20 years ago at Calvert High School. He currently teaches social studies at Franklin High School in Baltimore County.

	Joey Garner, Jr.
	Secondary
	Year at McDaniel: 1st Alma Mater: Morgan State '02 Office Phone: 410-857-2574 Email: TBA

Garner debuts on the Green Terror sideline in 2008.

Garner joins the college ranks after the last six seasons at the high school level. From 2002-03, he was the offensive coordinator at Friends School of Baltimore before spending the next two seasons as a defensive assistant at Patterson High School in Baltimore.

In 2003, four of his offensive players at Friends School were selected All-Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association after his offense averaged 17 points per game and 250 yards per game.

In 2006, he moved on to be the defensive backs and assistant running backs coach at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.

A 2002 graduate of Morgan State with a bachelor of science in telecommunications – radio and television production, he was the morning news floor director at WBFF Fox 45 in Baltimore from 2002-07. In January 2007, he left that post to take a position as adjunct professor and aquatics director at Coppin State.

Parsons enters his second with the Green Terror.

After working with the running backs in his first season, Parsons shifts to working with the quarterbacks – the position he played in college.

In his season working with the running backs, Parsons was responsible for a shift in the running game that saw the backs produce eight more rushing touchdowns than in 2006 and an increase of more than 35 rushing yards per game.

Parsons, a 2007 graduate of Averett, was a four-year varsity letterwinner on the football team. He was team captain his senior season in addition to being named the team’s Offensive MVP.

A two-time all-conference quarterback, Parsons guided the Cougars to the USA South championship in 2006.

He holds the program records for passing yards per game (219.1 ypg), passing yards in a single game (361), passing efficiency in a season (128.9), passing touchdowns in a game (4), season (18) and career (42) as well as total offense in a game (401), season (1,997) and career (4,881).

He did an internship with the Averett football program during the spring of 2007, assisting with recruiting, video editing and spring practices.

Now in his fifth season on the staff, the Orlando, Fla., native and two-time All-CC first-team pick at linebacker joined the staff in 2004 – just months after his graduation from McDaniel.

Phillip spent his first season working with the offensive line, learning the ins and outs of McDaniel’s complex offensive schemes. That knowledge helped him in 2005 when he tackled the larger role as running backs coach. In 2006, he continued to shuffle through the offense, taking control of the wide receivers – a responsibility he will stick with for a third season.

As a player, Phillip was among the team leaders in nearly every defensive statistical category throughout his career at McDaniel. He wrapped up his best season in 2003, ranking second on the team in tackles (76) and tackles for losses (6.5 for 27 yards).

Phillip resides in Harford County with his wife, Sarah.