Clark Lea - Assistant Coach - LB's

[BobbyMac]

Defensive Coordinator 2018-____
LB Coach - 2017
Nashville, TN - Hometown
Notre Dame

Coaching Bio:

2017 .......... Notre Dame .......... LB
2016 .......... Wake Forest .......... LB
2013-15 ..... Syracuse ................ LB
2012 .......... Bowling Green ........ LB
2009-11 ..... UCLA ..................... LB
2007-08 ..... South Dakota St ..... LB / Recruiting Coordinator
2005-06 ..... UCLA ..................... GA (DL - LB)
2005 .......... Vanderbilt .............. GA

Playing Bio:

2002-04 ..... Vandy Football (Fullback)
------------------ All-SEC Academic Team 03-04.
------------------ Finalist for the 2005 John Wooden Cup.
2002 .......... Belmont Baseball
2001 .......... Birmingham Southern Baseball ..... NAIA World Series Champion

Attended Montgomery-Bell Academy in Nashville. Same HS as Alex Bars. HS & college teammate of former Chicago Bears LB, Hunter Hillenmeyer

Wake Forest Bio:

Clark Lea joined the Wake Forest coaching staff as the linebackers coach in 2016. Lea was most recently the linebacker coach at Syracuse.
Lea spent three seasons with the Orange following a one-year stint with head coach Dave Clawson at Bowling Green State University in 2012. There, Lea worked with defensive coordinator Mike Elko to assemble a unit that ranked seventh in the nation in pass defense, ninth in scoring defense and sixth nationally in third-down defense while leading the Mid-American Conference in nine statistical categories.

Lea was a finalist for Linebackers Coach of the Year by FootballScoop.com in 2012.

He is a 2004 graduate of Vanderbilt where he earned three letters in football and was a two-time All-SEC Academic Team pick. In 2005 he was a finalist for the John Wooden Cup and the recipient of the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Award.

Following his graduation from Vanderbilt, he became a graduate assistant at UCLA in 2005-06 before moving to South Dakota State for two seasons in 2007. He returned to UCLA in 2009 to coach linebackers before taking the same position at Bowling Green in 2012.

Lea began his college career at Birmingham-Southern College where he was a member of the baseball team that captured the NAIA World Series title in 2001. He lettered in baseball at Belmont in 2002 before moving to Vanderbilt.

Lea and his wife Allison have a son, Clark III and a daughter, Mara.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Source: Notre Dame expected to hire Wake Forest's Clark Lea as linebackers coach. <a href="https://t.co/WiORaIHzU2">https://t.co/WiORaIHzU2</a></p>— Pete Thamel (@SIPeteThamel) <a href="https://twitter.com/SIPeteThamel/status/818461585530376193">January 9, 2017</a></blockquote>
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