April 20, 2005
Boxleitner re-joins Monarch football staff as defensive line coach

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – A familiar face is returning to the Methodist Monarch football coaching staff for the 2005 season as Wade Boxleitner was hired recently as the Monarchs’ defensive line coach. Boxleitner comes to Methodist after serving the last two seasons as defensive backs coach at Brockport State.

If Boxleitner sounds familiar to most Monarch followers, it’s because he served as outside linebackers coach at Methodist in the 2002 season. Overall, Boxleitner has eight seasons experience as an assistant at the collegiate level. He also has stints at Cortland State (2001), Albany (1999-2000), South Dakota (1998) and Brockport State (1997).

Boxleitner was defensive coordinator in his one season at Cortland State, where his defense was ranked second in the NJAC (New Jersey Athletic Conference) in total defense and led the NJAC in rushing defense. He served as outside linebackers coach at both Albany and South Dakota, and assistant offensive line coach in his first stint at Brockport State.

It was his first stint at Brockport State where Boxleitner served on the same coaching staff as current Methodist offensive coordinator and assistant head coach Dave Eavenson.

As a player, Boxleitner lettered four seasons at inside linebacker at Blackburn in Carlinville, Ill. He was a four-year starter and was selected All-SLIAC (St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference). He received his bachelor’s degree in Physical Education from Blackburn.