E-mail Coach Keating: football@mcdaniel.edu

Entering his 15th 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 95-48-3 mark at the College is 35 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 the first victory of 2007, Keating will usher McDaniel into the 500-win club, one of just 24 programs in Division III history to acheive the feat. He needs just five wins for his 100th on the Green Terror sideline.

Seventy-eight of Keating’s 95 wins at McDaniel have come over the past 10 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 third year on the Hill this fall.

E-mail: evanheusen@mcdaniel.edu

Van Heusen joins the Green Terror staff in 2007 after spending the last six seasons at Princeton.

His arrival at McDaniel marks a returns 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 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 (6) and a daughter Georgia (4).

E-mail: abartola@mcdaniel.edu

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

Bartolain took over the reins of the offensive line in 2005 after spending 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.

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.

E-mail: rcline@mcdaniel.edu

Cline joins the Green Terror staff in 2007 after spending last season as the defensive line coach at Guilford.

During that one season, Cline coached defensive tackle Mike Six to second-team All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference honors and honorable mention All-America honors as a sophomore. He also coached the conference’s second-leading sackman, Mario Paylor.

Prior to his stint with the Quakers, he spent the 2005 season coaching the defensive backs at Moravian, where he was a three-year starter at linebacker.

After starting at linebacker during his sophomore and junior seasons, he captained the squad his senior season. Moving to defensive end, he earned All-Middle Atlantic Conference honors and helped the Greyhounds start the season 7-0 – the best open in program history.

Cline also captained the Moravian baseball team, earning all-conference honors at first base and ranking among the leaders in home runs.

A Union Bridge, N.J., native, Cline graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in Religion and is currently pursuing a masters in sports administration at McDaniel.

E-mail: gfuhrman@bcps.org

E-mail: dajohnson@mcdaniel.edu

Johnson joins the Green Terror sidelines in 2007 after a four-year career at the University of North Carolina.

While a member of the Tar Heel squad, Johnson appeared in every game during his four-year career, including making eight starts over his final two seasons.

A cornerback, he recorded 141 tackles and nabbed a pair of interceptions. He also forced four fumbles and recovered two more.

After his time in Chapel Hill, Johnson spent the last three seasons as the secondary coach at Riverside High School, helping a turnaround that took the program from a 3-8 record in 2003 to a 7-4 mark in 2004. The pass defense was No. 1 in the Triangle area in 2004 and led the state with 27 interceptions in 2006, which won the team’s first state championship.

While at Riverside, he also served as the head track and field coach from 2006-07.

Johnson is married to the former Tiffanie Goings.

E-mail: tparsons@mcdaniel.edu

Parsons joins the Green Terror staff in 2007 as running backs coach.

Parsons, who graduated from Averett in May, 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).

This past spring, he did an internship with the Averett football program, assisting with recruiting, video editing and spring practices.

E-mail: odp001@mcdaniel.edu

Now in his fourth 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 second 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).

Philip resides in Harford County with his wife, Sarah.

E-mail: mfyurekmd@comcast.net

A family and sports-medicine physician in Chambersburg, Pa., Yurek has never drifted too far from the football field he once played on. He started at fullback for Western Maryland from 1972 through 1974, earning himself a tryout with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1977.

After spending 15 years coaching every level from youth football to semi-pro, Yurek joined the staff of his alma mater in 1999 where he remained as the quarterbacks coach through the 2002 season.

Yurek returns for the third season of his return to the Hill after spending 2003 and 2004 on the sideline at Towson, where he coached the team’s quarterbacks.

In the first year of his second stint at McDaniel, Yurek mentored the other end of the passing equation, working with the Green Terror receivers. Last season, he once again started leading the signal callers and will continue in that role in 2007.

Yurek still resides in Chambersburg. He has two sons. Brian is a third-year student at York (Pa.) and John is in his first year playing strong safety at the University of Connecticut.