Averett University Athletics

Head Football Coach

Averett Finished 7-3 in 2006 for Dunlevy's 4th consecutive winning season and 1st USA South Conference Championship

The Dunlevy File:

2006 USA South Conference Champions
2003 USA South Coach of the Year
4 Consecutive Winning Seasons (2003-2007)
16 out of the last 20 seasons were winning seasons
Coached three former #1 draft choices to the NFL
Coached 12 former NFL players
Coached in 3 Division I Bowl games (1 Liberty and 2 Hall of Fame Bowls).
Coached 54 All Conference Players
Coached 3 Superbowl participants
Coached 9 Academic All-Americans
Coached 1 Burger King Scholarship Award winner
Coached 1 ODAC Officials Post-Graduate Scholarship Winner
Coached 1 AFCA Good works award winner
Coached 1 USA South Student Athlete of the Year (Don Scalf Award Winner)
Coached 1 USA South Defensive Player of the Year (Jermaine Moore)

Michael D. Dunlevy will be entering his seventh season as the Averett University Head Coach in 2007 and is already the winningest coach in Averett Football history. The architect of one of the greatest turnarounds in college football, Dunlevy took over a program with 3 wins in two seasons and brought Averett its first football championship in 2006. In route to their first title, the Cougars went 10-1 in eleven conference contests and were 14-6 in the championship year and the year prior to their first title.

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Dunlevy has more than 19 seasons of coaching experience at the college level. The 1987 graduate from Otterbein College in Ohio most recently served as Defensive Coordinator and Assistant Head Coach at Waynesburg College in Waynesburg, PA. Dunlevy served as an assistant at Waynesburg from 1994-2001. He joined a struggling Yellow Jacket program that had only 38 players, and used his recruiting skills to not only bolster the team numbers, but return focus to academic success as well as athletic success. Dunlevy also served as an Academic Advisor for student-athletes at Waynesburg, and organized alumni fund raising campaigns for the Yellow Jacket athletic programs. Dunlevy was part of a coaching staff that led the Yellow Jackets to four consecutive winning seasons and a 1998 Presidents Athletic Conference Championship.

Prior to joining Waynesburg, Dunlevy served as special teams coordinator/linebackers coach for the Ohio Glory of the World Football League (which is now NFL Europe). He also served on the coaching staffs of The Ohio State University and The University of Toledo.

Dunlevy has used his coaching and recruiting background to help move the Averett University football program in a positive direction. His number one goal is to graduate players and motivate his athletes to be the best they can be both in the classroom and on the field.

Dunlevy resides in Blairs, VA.