Welcome home Coach Mark Speir

Courtesy WCU Sports Information

Cullowhee, N.C. - Director of Athletics Randy Eaton announced he had selected Mark Speir as the head football coach for Western Carolina University at a press conference held in the Ramsey Center today.

A native of Kannapolis, N.C., the Clemson graduate landed his first full-time coaching position in Cullowhee on Coach Hodgin's staff, working with the running backs from 1991-93, then the linebackers in 1994 before coaching the defensive line and serving as the program's recruiting coordinator from 1995-96.  Coach Speir has a masters degree from Western Carolina.

Welcome home, Coach Spear and family, we've been waiting on you.

Speir takes over as Western Carolina football coach