Chris Magendantz - Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers
Sixth Season
Bates '91

Chris Magendantz has climbed the ladder at Northeastern from graduate assistant to secondary coach to defensive coordinator, a role he took on for the first time last season. Magendantz was the logical choice when the position opened, since he has been along every step of the way as Northeastern's defense has developed into one of the nation's finest. This year, with former NU assistant Darren Rizzi accepting the head coaching position at New Haven, Magendantz also will take on the specific role of coaching the team's linebackers - a group long-heralded as one of the best in the conference. In his five-year tenure at NU, he has cultivated an expertise in many areas on the defensive side of the ball, including supervision of the secondary and the special teams. It is that varied experience that lended perfectly to Magendantz's promotion to his current role of overseeing the entire defensive game plan.

Before NU: Arrived at Northeastern after spending 1992 and '93 as an assistant coach at alma mater Bates College with responsibility of defensive line...initial coaching experience came with freshman basketball team at Framingham High during the 1991-92 season.

Playing career: A two-sport star at Bates College (Lewiston, Maine), playing four seasons of both football and basketball...a two-time All-Conference free safety and captain for Coach Webb Harrison...All-ECAC on the gridiron as a senior...on the court, captained team of Rick Boyages, who went on to become associate head coach under Jim O'Brien at Boston College and Ohio State...a schoolboy star at Moses Brown and Hebron Academy in three sports: football, basketball, and baseball...named All-Prep in football as free safety and tight end for Coach Jerry Zeoli, a college teammate of Joe Paterno.

Personal: Born Dec. 14, 1968...raised in Lincoln, R.I... away from the football field, enjoys golf, basketball and traveling...earned bachelor's degree in Psychology from Bates in 1991...resides in Walpole with wife Kristin.

Recruiting: New Jersey, Rhode Island