Weylan Harding

Weylan Harding is the current head coach of the New York Dragons of the Arena Football League. At the start of the 2005 season, his first year leading the Dragons, he was 33 years old, making him the second youngest head coach in the history of the AFL. He had previously worked in the Buffalo Destroyers organization starting in 2000. After the Destroyers moved to Columbus, Ohio he became the team's defensive coordinator in 2002 and returned in 2004. Earlier in his career, he was the defensive specialist for the Iowa Barnstormers (now the New York Dragons), the former Nashville Kats (now the Georgia Force), the now-defunct Portland Forest Dragons, and the former Buffalo Destroyers (now the Columbus Destroyers). He retired as a player in 2000.