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Defensive Coaching Staff
Alex Wood
Assisant Coach/Defensive Coordinator
Alex Wood is in his fourth season as a member of the Wayne State College football coaching staff. Wood begins his third season as defensive coordinator in 2010 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 is married to WSC softball coach Krista Wood and they reside in Wayne. He has two children, a son (Aaron) and a daughter (Alexis).
Scott McLaughlin
Assistant Coach/Defensive Line, Special Teams
Scott McLaughlin is in his fifth season as an assistant football coach at Wayne State College and his third 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 and his wife Lindsay reside in Wayne. He 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.
Spencer Gray
Graduate Assistant Coach/Defensive Backs
Spencer Gray enters his first season as a graduate assistant coach with the Wayne State College football program for the 2011 season, working with defensive backs. Gray is an Indianola, Iowa native who played collegiately at Waldorf College in Iowa as the team's starting kicker and backup punter.
Gray comes to Wayne State after working the 2009-10 season in Seattle, Washington in a variety of positions. He was assistant director and youth coach for USA Football in Seattle, working with kicking and punting. Gray also served as an assistant coach at Edmonds-Woodway High School, serving as special teams coach while working with punters and kickers. He also created and served as director for the Spencer Gray Kicking Academy, a weekly summer camp for Seattle high school kickers.
Gray is a graduate of Indianola High School in Iowa and earned his bachelor's degree from Waldorf College in 2009 majoring in communications and public relations.
Brad Vonnahme
Graduate Assistant Coach/Linebackers
Brad Vonnahme begins his first season as a graduate assistant coach working with the linebackers.
Vonnahme, a native of Omaha and a graduate of Elkhorn Mount Michael Benedictine High School, comes to WSC after working the past two seasons at Utah State University. He served last year as defensive administrative assistant helping the defensive coaches with daily football operations and was a staff administrative assistant the other year. He also worked three seasons as a student assistant at Nebraska from 2006-08. He primarily worked with Nebraska's special teams units, assisting scouting reports and practice plans.
