Willie_J._Slater

Willie J. Slater

Willie J. Slater

American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator

Willie James Slater is an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He was the head football coach for Clark Atlanta University; a position he has held from 2022 to 2023.[1] Slater served as the head football coach at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama, from 2006 to 2021. His teams won the Pioneer Bowl in 2006, 2007, and 2009. In 2007, his undefeated squad was named the black small college football national champions and claimed outright or has shared that crown more times. Slater was appointed as athletic director at Tuskegee in 2017. In December 2021, Tuskegee hired Reginald Ruffin from Miles College to succeed Slater as head football coach and athletic director.[2]

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  1. Slater was fired with six weeks remaining in the season and Richard Moncrief was named as interim head coach.

References

  1. [1]
    "CAU hires Veteran Coach Willie Slater to lead Football Program". Atlanta Voice. Atlanta, Georgia. February 11, 2022. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Tuskegee hires new head coach, doesn't mention Willie Slater's departure". Montgomery, Alabama: WSFA. December 21, 2021. Retrieved December 23, 2021.


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