Shannon Currier

Head Football Coach

Shannon Currier was named the 20th head coach in Truman football history in January of 2004.

Currier’s number one priority since taking over the Bulldogs has been building the team’s talent level. In 2005, he brought in over 50 newcomers and the 2005 roster included 73 redshirt or true freshman. By the end of that year, six of those freshmen were in the starting lineup and nearly 20 were regular contributors.

This past offseason, Currier and his staff have traveled across the country in search of talent that will bring Bulldog football back to the dominance it has been previously.

The Bulldogs had a breakout year in 2006 with a 6-5 overall record and a 6-3 MIAA mark. After an 0-3 start, Currier’s Bulldogs defeated Central Missouri and then went on to win five of their next seven games to finish ranked in the final NCAA regional poll.

In three years, 28 Bulldogs have earned all-conference honors, including six players who return this season. Currier’s players have also excelled in the classroom. Truman players have been named to the MIAA commissioner’s academic honor roll 49 times in the last three years, and the program can boast the highest graduation rate in the MIAA.

Off the field, Currier has been busy reshaping the team’s image on campus and in the community with numerous service projects. He has also raised the bar on fundraising to help improve facilities and other areas of the team.

The position at Truman is the second head coaching job for Currier. From 2000-2003, he served as the head coach at Concordia-St. Paul (Minn.), helping turn that program around despite working with a limited number of scholarships.

Currier inherited a team that won just two games in 1999, and over the next four years, he compiled a record of 32-12 (.727). He left the school second all-time in wins and first in winning percentage.

The Golden Bears were nationally ranked every year from 2001 to 2003. In his final season, Concordia won a Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference championship and was a participant in the Mineral Water Bowl.

Currier was named the 2003 conference coach of the year and earned honorable mention honors for the Midwest region coach of the year.

While he was at Concordia, the Golden Bears had one of the top offenses in NCAA Division II. His teams ranked seventh in total offense in the country in 2002 and sixth in 2003. Concordia averaged over 34 points a game the last three years.

Currier coached 13 athletes to first-team all-NSIC honors and 15 players to second-team accolades. He recruited two conference newcomers of the year, including one NCAA all-Division Freshman of the Year.

Currier's players at Concordia also had success in the classrooms. He coached 33 academic all-conference players in his four seasons.

Prior to being named head coach at Concordia, Currier served as the assistant head coach and offensive coordinator at the school for one season. He also served as the offensive coordinator at Southwest State University (Minn.) (1997-99) and University of Minnesota-Crookston (1995-97), and was offensive backfield/wide receiver coach at Bemidji State University (Minn.) (1994-1995).

Currier is a former college quarterback at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a B.A. in physical education from Hamline and he has a M.S. in health, physical education and recreation from Bemidji State.

He and his wife Amy have two children, Frannie and Collin.