Monty Lewis

Monty Lewis
Sport(s) Football
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Friends
Conference KCAC
Record 85–39
Playing career
1982–1984 Southwestern (KS)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1985
1986
1987
1988–1989
1991
1992
1993–2001
2002
2003–present
Southwestern (KS) (OL)
Fort Hays (LB)
Northeastern State (LB/WR)
MacMurray (OC)
Colorado State (LB)
Kentucky (LB/OL)
Southwestern (KS)
West Texas A&M (OC)
Friends
Head coaching record
Overall 145–71

Statistics

Accomplishments and honors

Awards

2x KCAC Coach of the Year (2006–2008)

Monty Lewis is the head football coach for Friends University in Wichita, Kansas.[1] He accumulated 100 wins in just 15 years as a head coach and has one of the highest winning percentages of any active coach in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.[2]

Coaching career

Before coaching at Friends, Lewis was the head coach for the Southwestern College Moundbuilders[3] and led the team to a record of 60 wins and 32 losses during his tenure to become the "all-time winningest coach in school history"[4] including a 1996 Wheat Bowl victory against Baker University.[5] In terms of head coach winning percentage at Southwestern, Lewis ranks #6 overall.

After the 1997 regular season, his team played in the NAIA Football National Championship, losing 5328 to Doane College.[6]

In 1998, his team at Southwestern advanced to the second round of the National Championship, defeating the Lindenwood Lions 1210 in the first round and losing 526 to Si Tanka (SD).[7]

For the 1999 NAIA Football National Championship, the team lost in the first round to Northwestern Oklahoma State by a score of 4410.[8]

Playing career

As a player for the Southwestern College Moundbuilders, Lewis was an NAIA All-American in 1983 and 1984[9] where he played for head coaches Dennis Franchione and Charlie Cowdrey.,[10] including the 1982 Sunflower Bowl victory.[11]

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