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Northwest Missouri State University head football coach Adam Dorrel announced today that defensive coordinator Richard Wright has been promoted to assistant head coach, and Charlie Flohr, who served as the Bearcats’ quarterbacks coach, quality control and passing game coordinator, has been promoted to offensive coordinator.

Wright, who will continue his defensive coordinator duties, is entering his eighth season as a full-time Northwest assistant. The Bearcats are 87-14 (.861) with five MIAA championships and a national championship since he came aboard in 2004. He also was the tight ends coach at Northwest in 1995 and 1996 while earning his master’s.

Wright, a 1995 graduate of Dana (Neb.) College, has been both an offensive and defensive coordinator during his coaching career. He was the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at St. Ambrose (Iowa) University from 2000 to 2004. During that time, the Fighting Bees won four straight conference titles and set the league record for consecutive wins. He also has made stops at William Penn College, Central Methodist University, Dakota State University and Cortland State.

“Coach Wright has been a huge part of the success of this program. He brought a toughness back to our football program that has paid big dividends in the national playoffs,” Dorrel said. “He has worked his way up through the ranks. He was a GA, defensive line coach, strength and conditioning coach, special teams coordinator and now the defensive coordinator. He is a great teacher and a motivator and will help me with the day-to-day operations of our football program.”

Wright and his wife, Sarah, a 1998 Northwest graduate, live in Maryville with their daughters, Grace and Kate.

Flohr served as a graduate assistant at Northwest during the 2002 and 2003 seasons following a four-year playing career at Dakota State University where he was a two-time honorable mention all-conference selection at wide receiver and graduated as the program’s all-time leader in punt returns.

After receiving his master’s in health and physical education at Northwest, he was hired at Truman State University where he served as the Bulldogs’ wide receivers and recruiting coach for two seasons. Since his return to Northwest, the Bearcats are 65-8 and 45-0 in MIAA play.

“Coach Flohr has been an integral part of our offensive success since he arrived at Northwest,” Dorrel said. “He has a great football mind and is dedicated to challenging our student-athletes to be the best they can be. He is hard working, loyal and organized, and he is continually striving to find new ways to make us better. These are all great qualities in an offensive coordinator.”

Flohr and his wife, Amy, 2004 Northwest graduate, live in Maryville and have two sons, Adam and Austin.

Dorrel, who was the team’s previous offensive coordinator and assistant head coach, will continue to call offensive plays for the 2011 season.

“We just feel that since training camp is just weeks away, this will be the best for our team,” said Dorrel, who, as offensive coordinator, helped lead the Bearcats to an unprecedented five straight NCAA Division II championship appearances and the program’s third national title in 2009.

Northwest opens its season at Truman State University with a 7:30 p.m. kickoff Thursday, Sept. 1, in Kirksville.

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Northwest Missouri State University head football coach Adam Dorrel has announced that former Northwest linebacker and graduate assistant coach Chad Bostwick has been named the team’s linebackers coach.

“We’re excited to have Chad Bostwick come home and rejoin his Bearcat family,” Dorrel said. “Chad demonstrated his dedication and hard work through his years at Northwest, first as a walk-on player who went on to have a very successful football career, and then as a graduate assistant. He has a great background as a recruiter at the Division II level, which will obviously be a huge asset moving forward. He also has tremendous credentials coaching successful teams, as he has been a part of conference championship teams and has playoff experience.”

Since March, Bostwick served as the linebackers/special teams coach at the University of Central Missouri. Prior to his time at UCM, he spent four seasons as the offensive line coach at Colorado School of Mines where, in 2010, he helped the Orediggers to the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference title and a berth in the NCAA Division II playoffs. He also coached a player who participated in the Cactus Bowl as well as four, first-team all-conference selections.

“I’m extremely thrilled to be coming back home to Northwest as a member of the Bearcat coaching staff,” Bostwick said. “This place has always held a special place in my heart, and the opportunity for my wife and me to be able to return to our alma mater was something we could not let pass. This is like a dream come true for me, and I cannot wait to get to work.”

During the 2005 and 2006 seasons, Bostwick was a graduate assistant coach at Northwest, in charge of the linebackers. The team finished as the national runner-up both seasons and captured the 2006 MIAA Championship. Prior to serving as a GA coach, Bostwick played for the Bearcats and earned All-MIAA honorable mention accolades at linebacker in 2004 as a senior and also helped the Bearcats win three MIAA titles (2000, 2002, 2003) and make the NCAA Division II playoffs three times (2000, 2002, 2004) while finishing the 2004 season as the third-ranked team in the nation. Individually, he won the Don Black Award in 2003 as the MVP of the Homecoming football game and also won the Spirit of the Bearcat Award as a senior.
He joins a program that enters its 96th season three wins shy of 500 (497-388-33) and owns a 46-game regular season winning streak against MIAA opponents. The Bearcats have made the NCAA Division II football playoffs 13 of the last 15 seasons.

Bostwick is the brother of Scott Bostwick, who was named Northwest’s 18th head football coach in December and died June 5 of an apparent heart attack.

Bostwick earned his bachelor’s from Northwest in 2005 followed by his master’s in 2006. He and his wife Kelli, who also attended Northwest, have a 1-year-old daughter, Geordynn.

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Northwest Missouri State University announces today that Adam Dorrel, the Bearcat football program’s offensive coordinator and assistant head coach, has been named the team’s 19th head football coach.

Dorrel, succeeds Scott Bostwick who died June 5 after suffering an apparent heart attack at his home. A news conference is scheduled at 10 a.m. Friday, June 24, in the Navy Room, located under the west grandstand of Bearcat Stadium.

Dorrel, a member of the Bearcat coaching staff since 2004, takes over a program that enters its 96th season three wins shy of 500 (497-388-33) and owns a 46-game regular season winning streak against MIAA opponents. The Bearcats have made the NCAA Division II football playoffs 13 of the last 15 seasons.

“It is an honor and privilege to be named head football coach at Northwest Missouri State University,” Dorrel said. “I look forward to building on a proud tradition and fully embracing the tremendous responsibility that comes with leading this program. Our staff is excited about the challenges that lie ahead, and we look forward to watching the young men in our program grow and mature on the field, in the classroom and in life. It is our mission and goal to help them become the best they can be.”

Said Northwest Director of Athletics Wren Baker, “Adam Dorrel has been an overachiever at every step of his career. Our offense has set productivity records and has been effective running and passing the ball under his leadership. He has been instrumental in the success of this program as an assistant coach, offensive coordinator and player. Most importantly, he is a leader of men. He understands this program was built with young men who are dedicated to being good people and graduating with their degrees. We are extremely proud to have him lead our football program.”

As offensive coordinator, Dorrel helped lead the Bearcats to an unprecedented five straight NCAA Division II championship appearances and the program’s third national title in 2009. In his seven seasons as a full-time coach at Northwest, the Bearcat football squad is 87-14 (.861) with five MIAA championships.

Dorrel’s 2009 offensive unit was arguably one of the best in the 90-plus year history of Northwest football. The Bearcats averaged more than 42 points and 474 yards per game, and ranked in the top 10 nationally in four major offensive categories. Northwest was second in scoring, sixth in total offense, third in pass efficiency and eighth in passing.

Impressive team and individual accolades have become the norm rather than the exception under Dorrel. The Bearcats have averaged more than 40 points per game three times and more than 400 yards of offense per game five times in Dorrel’s seven seasons. In addition, 14 offensive stars have been named All-Americans under Dorrel and three of the last four MIAA offensive MVPs have been Bearcats.

After earning his bachelor’s degree from Northwest in 1998, Dorrel spent a year as a graduate assistant at Northeastern State in Oklahoma. He returned to Northwest as a graduate assistant in 1999 when the team won the second of its back-to-back national titles and completed his master’s degree at Northwest in 2000.

Dorrel served coaching stints at Dakota State University in South Dakota and William Jewell College in Missouri before being appointed offensive line coach at Northwest in 2004. He was promoted to offensive coordinator prior to the 2007 season and then to assistant head coach after Bostwick was named head coach in December.

During the summer of 2008, Dorrel was one of six American football coaches to lead clinics overseas to further strengthen the sport beyond the United States. During the summer of 2007, he served as offensive line coach for Team USA as it competed and won the IFAF World Championships in Japan.

Dorrel himself is a former Northwest All-American, having played under legendary head coach Mel Tjeerdsma, who retired at the end of the 2010 season. Dorrel was a three-year captain for the Bearcats during his collegiate career as an offensive lineman from 1994 to 1997 and earned All-MIAA honors in 1997, 1996 and 1995. A Maryville native, he also was a two-time All-District and All-Conference lineman at Maryville High School.

“I’m sure Bearcat Nation will be pleased to have Coach Dorrel carrying on the football tradition, strength and knowledge that binds our coaching staff,” Jasinski said. “Coach Dorrel and his staff are united, just as previous staffs were under Coach Bostwick and Coach Tjeerdsma, and they are eager to move the Bearcat football program into a new era of excellence.”

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Northwest Missouri State’s 14 athletic programs and its cheerleading and steppers programs combined to achieve grade point averages above 3.00 for both the 2010 fall trimester (3.03) and 2011 spring trimester (3.05).

The Bearcats’ women’s golf program led all programs in the fall with a team GPA of 3.76. Northwest’s women’s cross country program had a team GPA of 3.68 in the spring to lead all programs.

A full listing of team GPAs can be found below:

Program                              Fall GPA    Spring GPA

Women’s Golf                         3.76         3.28
Women’s Cross Country    3.52         3.68
Women’s Volleyball            3.39         3.39
Women’s Tennis                   3.39         3.38
Women’s Track                      3.35         3.39
Softball                                     3.32         3.27
Men’s Cross Country          3.28         3.10
Baseball                                    3.15         2.95
Women’s Basketball            3.13         3.00
Women’s Soccer                   3.09         3.27
Cheerleading                          2.94         2.61
Men’s Track                            2.91         2.79
Steppers                                   2.88         2.98
Football                                   2.81         2.89
Men’s Tennis                         2.77         2.80
Men’s Basketball                  2.71         2.79

Totals                                       3.03         3.05