I interviewed on Monday the University of West Florida’s first head football coach, Pete Shinnick. We talked about his family’s football legacy, the coaches that he has worked for and learned from and how he plans to recruit players to UWF.
The University of North Carolina Pembroke has a great profile on the coach. At UNCP, Shinnick fielded in 2007 the first season of intercollegiate football for the school in more than 50 years. Two years later UNCP qualified for the NCAA Division II Playoff, the youngest team to ever do so.
From the UNCP website:
“Shinnick has built the football program in Pembroke into one of the most dominating teams in the region. Over the last four seasons, the Braves have boasted one of the country’s most dominating defensive units and, last season, exhibited one of NCAA Division II’s most prolific offenses. UNCP has, thrice, finished among the nation’s top-12 teams in scoring defense, including leading the country in that category in 2008, and has, twice finished among the nation’s top 30 teams in rushing offense during that same time frame as well. Last season, the Braves finished with the nation’s sixth-best total offense.”
Listen here.