Smith College

Mike Manall enters his second season as the defensive backs coach at Rowan University. He has been an english teacher at Maple Shade High School since 1997. In his time there, Manall has served as the assistant boys track coach since 1997, the assistant wrestling coach since 2001 and an assistant football coach from 1997-2001. Manall has helped guide the track team to four South Jersey Championships, five County Championships and two South Jersey Group I Championships. The football team reached the South Jersey Group I playoffs in 1998. 

 

Prior to Rowan, Manall was the defensive coordinator at Gateway Regional High School from 2004-2005. His team advanced to the South Jersey Group I playoffs in 2004, marking the first time Gateway made the playoffs since 1984. Manall served as the defensive backs coach at West Deptford High School in 2003, helping lead them to a conference and Group II championship. 

 

Manall earned his bachelor of science degree in communications from Clarion University of Pennsylvania in 1986. He later earned a post-bachelor degree in secondary education from Rowan University in 1996. Manall currently resides in Somerdale, NJ.