Monty_Lewis
Monty Lewis
American football player and coach (born 1963)
Monty Lewis (born January 2, 1963) is an American football coach. Is the head football coach at Winfield High School in Winfield, KS. Lewis served as the head football coach at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas from 1993 to 2001 and Friends University in Wichita, Kansas from 2003 to 2016.
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Holdenville HS (OK) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | (1963-01-02) January 2, 1963 (age 61) Greeley, Colorado, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1981–1984 | Southwestern (KS) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1985 | Southwestern (KS) (OL) |
| 1986 | Fort Hays (LB) |
| 1987 | Northeastern State (LB/WR) |
| 1988–1989 | MacMurray (OC) |
| 1991 | Colorado State (LB) |
| 1992 | Kentucky (LB/OL) |
| 1993–2001 | Southwestern (KS) |
| 2002 | West Texas A&M (OC) |
| 2003–2016 | Friends |
| 2017 | Maize South HS (KS) (QB) |
| 2019–present | Holdenville HS (OK) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 159–88 (college) |
| Bowls | 1–0 |
| Tournaments | 1–6 (NAIA playoffs) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 6 KCAC (1997–1999, 2006–2008) | |
| Awards | |
| 5× KCAC Coach of the Year (1998–1999, 2006–2008) | |
Lewis played college football at Southwestern College, where he was an National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NA) All-American in 1983 and 1984. He played for head coaches Dennis Franchione and Charlie Cowdrey and participated in Southwestern's the 1982 Sunflower Bowl victory.[1][2]
Lewis was the head football coach at the Southwestern College and led the team to a record of 60–32 during his tenure, including a 1996 Wheat Bowl victory against Baker, to become the all-time winningest coach in school history.[3][4][5] After the 1997 regular season, his team played in the NAIA Football National Championship playoffs, losing 53–28 to Doane.[6] In 1998, his Southwestern team advanced to the second round of the NAIA playoffs, defeating the Lindenwood, 12–10, in the first round and losing 52–6 to Huron.[7] In the 1999 NAIA playoffs, the team lost in the first round to Northwestern Oklahoma State by a score of 44–10.[8]
In 2008, Lewis won his 100th game as a head coach at the college level.[9] Lewis was abruptly fired from Friends in March 2017.[10] For the 2017 season, he took a job coaching quarterbacks at Maize South High School, remaining in Wichita while his son played his senior season at Friends.
College
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | NAIA# | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Moundbuilders (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1993–2001) | |||||||||
| 1993 | Southwestern | 4–5 | 4–4 | T–4th | |||||
| 1994 | Southwestern | 6–4 | 5–3 | T–4th | |||||
| 1995 | Southwestern | 6–4 | 5–3 | T–3rd | |||||
| 1996 | Southwestern | 7–3 | 6–2 | 3rd | W Wheat | ||||
| 1997 | Southwestern | 8–3 | 7–1 | T–1st | L NAIA First Round | ||||
| 1998 | Southwestern | 9–2 | 7–1 | 1st | L NAIA Quarterfinal | ||||
| 1999 | Southwestern | 8–3 | 7–1 | T–1st | L NAIA First Round | 17 | |||
| 2000 | Southwestern | 6–4 | 6–3 | T–3rd | |||||
| 2001 | Southwestern | 6–4 | 6–3 | T–3rd | |||||
| Southwestern: | 60–32 | 53–21 | |||||||
| Friends Falcons (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (2002–2016) | |||||||||
| 2002 | Friends | 5–4 | 5–4 | T–3rd | |||||
| 2003 | Friends | 3–6 | 3–6 | T–8th | |||||
| 2004 | Friends | 5–4 | 5–4 | T–2nd | |||||
| 2005 | Friends | 7–3 | 6–3 | 3rd | |||||
| 2006 | Friends | 10–1 | 8–1 | T–1st | L NAIA First Round | 13 | |||
| 2007 | Friends | 9–2 | 8–1 | T–1st | L NAIA First Round | 12 | |||
| 2008 | Friends | 10–1 | 9–0 | 1st | L NAIA First Round | 10 | |||
| 2009 | Friends | 8–2 | 7–2 | 3rd | 15 | ||||
| 2010 | Friends | 6–4 | 5–4 | 5th | |||||
| 2011 | Friends | 5–5 | 5–4 | T–4th | |||||
| 2012 | Friends | 6–5 | 5–4 | 5th | |||||
| 2013 | Friends | 8–3 | 7–2 | T–2nd | 19 | ||||
| 2014 | Friends | 8–3 | 7–2 | T–2nd | 21 | ||||
| 2015 | Friends | 3–8 | 3–6 | T–5th | |||||
| 2016 | Friends | 6–5 | 5–4 | 5th | |||||
| Friends: | 99–56 | 88–47 | |||||||
| Total: | 159–88 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth | |||||||||
- Southwestern College - Winfield, KS Archived September 5, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- "National Football Foundation". Archived from the original on August 25, 2004. Retrieved November 27, 2007.
- Arkansas City Traveler "Monty Lewis named football coach at Friends" By Rama Peroo, January 17, 2003
- "CJOnline.com/sports | The Topeka Capital-Journal | Briefly in sports 12/05/01". Archived from the original on August 5, 2011. Retrieved November 27, 2007.
- "NAIAFOOTBALL.NET-The Nation's Home for NAIA Football". Archived from the original on December 4, 2007. Retrieved November 26, 2007.
- "Coach: Monty Lewis (1997)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on December 11, 2013. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
- "Coach: Monty Lewis (1998)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on December 11, 2013. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
- "Coach: Monty Lewis (1999)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on December 11, 2013. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
- KCAC Sports "Friends University's Monty Lewis Reaches 100 Win Milestone" October 20, 2008
- Lutz, Bob (April 26, 2017). "Former Friends coach Monty Lewis will miss coaching his son's senior season". The Wichita Eagle. Wichita, Kansas. Retrieved August 20, 2019.