ST. JOSEPH – Griffon football head coach Matt Williamson has named Andre Crenshaw as the team’s new special teams coordinator and running backs coach.

Crenshaw comes to Missouri Western after spending the 2017 season at Tennessee Tech where he coached running backs, returners, and specialists.

Before his time at Tennessee Tech he had a two-season stint at Morehead State where he also coached the running backs, returners and specialists. With the Eagles, Crenshaw helped recruit student-athletes, monitored their academic performance, broke down game film and put together scouting reports. He also helped oversee training and developed game plans.

Prior to his tenure in Kentucky, Crenshaw was a graduate assistant, overseeing the running backs and specialists at Dakota Wesleyan in Mitchell, South Dakota, then was also the running backs and athletes coach at Riggs Football Academy in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

At Dakota Wesleyan, he helped develop Francois Barnaud, who became the school’s leading rusher in just two seasons, picking up 1,893 yards as a junior and 1,409 yards as a senior, the top two seasons in program history. He led the NAIA and Great Plains Athletic Conference in rushing as a junior, was a second-team All-American selection and twice named all-conference.

A native of Lancaster, California, Crenshaw rushed for more than 500 yards and accumulated more than 1,000 career all-purpose yards during a four-year (2006-09) career at Oregon. He rushed for a career-best 133 yards and two touchdowns at Washington as a sophomore in 2007. He totaled more than 1,200 yards and 13 touchdowns on the ground as a senior at Antelope Valley High School.

Crenshaw earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Oregon in 2010 and a Master’s degree in educational policy and administration from Dakota Wesleyan 2015.

— MWSU Athletics —