WSC Men's Football Camps

Coaching Staff

Gene Suhr
Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks Coach

Gene Suhr enters his third season on the Wildcat football coaching staff, serving as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.  Under the direction of Suhr, Wayne State's offense has posted some of the top offensive numbers in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.

For the second straight season, WSC ranked second in the NSIC in total offense in 2008 averaging 412.8 yards per game.  The Wildcats racked up 627 yards of total offense in a 55-18 win over Winona State on October 18, 2008.  It was the most yards gained in a single game by a Wayne State football team since November 6, 1999 when the Wildcats gained 657 yards in a 70-21 win over Minnesota-Morris.

Suhr comes to Wayne State after coaching 23 seasons at Papillion-LaVista High School, posting an impressive 174-74 mark as Monarchs' coach.  He won Class A State Championships in 1990 and 1996 while earning state runner up finishes in 1985, 1995 and 1997.  His overall high school coaching record was 200-95.

The University of Nebaska-Omaha graduate started his coaching career at Omaha Gross, where he served three seasons as an assistant coach.  Suhr was named head coach at Ord High School in 1979 and compiled a 26-21 mark before being named head coach at Papillion-LaVista High School.

Alex Wood
Assistant Coach/Defensive Backs, Special Teams

Alex Wood is in his second season as a member of the Wayne State College football coaching staff.  Wood will serve as defensive coordinator in the 2009 season after working as defensive backs coach and special teams coordinator in 2008.  He also serves as equipment coordinator for all 15 sports at Wayne State College.

The 1996 graduate of Winston-Salem State in North Carolina comes to Wayne State after spending two seasons at Nebraska-Omaha where he was special teams coordinator and coached the defensive line after working with outside linebackers in the spring of 2006.  Before that, Wood coached two seasons (20004 and 2005) as secondary coach, special teams coach and video coordinator at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.  He then coached one season at Hillside High School in Durham, North Carolina (2003-04) and was at Livingstone College in 2002. 

Wood also coached at Minnesota State in Mankato, Minnesota from 1999-2002, serving as the team's defensive line coach and special team coordinator.  He served one season as an assistant coach at Morgan State University (1998) and James Madison University (1997) and began his extensive coaching career at Lexington Senior High School (North Carolina) in 1996.

Alex has two children, a son (Aaron) and a daughter (Alexis), and he resides in Wayne.

Scott McLaughlin will be entering his third season as an assistant football coach at Wayne State College and his first season as special teams coordinator.  He also coaches the defensive line.  McLaughlin coached the defensive linemen the previous two seasons with the Wildcats while serving as a graduate assistant.

McLaughlin is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Omaha and played defensive line for the Mavericks.  He also served as a student assistant at UNO and served as the team's video coordinator for three seasons before coming to Wayne State College.

In high school, Scott earned Class A All-State honors at Millard West after recording 11 sacks and 19 tackles for loss as a senior to earn honorary captain honors on the Class A All-State Defensive Team.

McLaughlin, who resides in Wayne, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska-Omaha in continuing education and received his master's degree at Wayne State College in sport management in May, 2009.