University of Richmond Athletics
Vic Shealy Joins Richmond Football Staff As Defensive Coordinator
02/05/2009 | Football
Feb. 5, 2009
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND - University of Richmond head coach Mike London has put the final piece of his football staff in place by hiring Vic Shealy as the defensive coordinator. Shealy - a 1984 Richmond alum - possesses 23 years of coaching experience, most recently as the assistant head coach at UNLV. He is the son of former Richmond head coach Dal Shealy.
Shealy replaces Russ Huesman, who was named head coach at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on December 22 - three days after the Spiders captured the Division I National Championship.
"I am very excited about the opportunity to have Vic as our defensive coordinator," said London. "He's enjoyed success at different levels as a head coach, an offensive and defensive coordinator. He won a national championship and was a National Coach of the Year. Vic is a great fit for our program and understands the Richmond culture."
Shealy joins Stacy Tutt (assistant coach) and Scott Burton moves to coaching the wide receivers.
Shealy's coaching career spans seven different schools, including Azusa Pacific where he won the school's first-ever NAIA National Championship in 1998 and was named NAIA National Coach of the Year and won the American Football Quarterly Schutt National Coach of the Year Award. In four years as the head coach, he turned a struggling program into a champion and compiled a record of 27-14-1.
He moved from there to Air Force where he spent six seasons as the secondary coach from 1999-2004. In that time, the Falcons reached the Silicon Valley Bowl (2000), the San Francisco Bowl (2002) and finished among the national leaders in both passing defense and scoring defense in 1999 and 2003.
At UNLV for the last four seasons, Shealy served as the assistant head coach, secondary coach, defensive coordinator (2005-07) and pass defensive coordinator (2008). In 2007, the Rebels finished 22nd in the NCAA in pass defense.
He began his college career at Liberty and played quarterback, before transfering to Richmond. As a Spider, Shealy was an undergraduate assistant on his father's staff, then spent two years as a graduate assistant at Baylor.
He then began the first of two stints at Mars Hill (N.C.) College in 1986. In 1987, he became the offensive coordinator at Austin Peay State. He left coaching in 1990, but returned to Mars Hill in 1992 as the offensive coordinator. In 1993, he returned to Austin Peay as the defensive secondary coach and became the defensive coordinator the following year. He left Austin Peay for Azusa Pacific in 1995.
Born in Nashville, Tenn., Shealy was raised in South Carolina and graduated from Richmond in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in physical education and received a master's degree in education from Baylor in 1986. He and his wife, Holly, are the parents of three sons, Dal (22), Jake (19) and Will (11) and one daughter, Kate (13).
