Sport(s) | Football |
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Current position | |
Title | Head coach |
Team | Abilene Christian |
Conference | Southland |
Record | 0–0 |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Maryville, Missouri |
December 2, 1974
Playing career | |
1994–1997 | Northwest Missouri State |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1998–1999 | Northwest Missouri State (GA) |
2000 | Dakota State (OL) |
2001–2003 | William Jewell (assistant) |
2004–2010 | Northwest Missouri State (assistant) |
2011–2016 | Northwest Missouri State |
2017–present | Abilene Christian |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 76–8 |
Tournaments | 15–3 (NCAA D-II playoffs) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
3× NCAA Division II (2013, 2015, 2016) 4× MIAA (2013–2016) |
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Awards | |
3× AFCA NCAA Division II COY (2013, 2015, 2016) |
Adam Dorrel (born December 2, 1974) is an American football coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Abilene Christian Wildcats football team in Abilene, Texas, a position he will begin in 2017. Prior to Abilene Christian Dorrel coached at Northwest Missouri State in Maryville, Missouri from 2011 to 2016. While at Northwest Missouri State he led the program to three undefeated seasons and the NCAA Division II Football Championship in 2013, 2015 and 2016.
Dorrel is the only Maryville native to coach the team. He graduated from Maryville High School, where he was a two-time All-Midland Empire Conference and all-district lineman. In 1992 Dorrel was named as an all-state offensive lineman. Dorrel's great-grandfather was a fullback on the Northwest's first team in 1908, and his grandfather and two great-uncles played for team in the 1940s.
Dorrel played under Northwest's Mel Tjeerdsma during Tjeerdsma's first Northwest season in 1994 in which the Bearcats went 0–11 before Tjeerdsma began his run of seven NCAA Division II National Football Championship games. He was captain of the team under Tjeerdsma in 1995, 1996 and 1997. He was Daktronics Second-Team All-America offensive lineman as a senior in 1997 (with Bearcats reaching the quarterfinals in both 1996 and 1997).
After graduating from Northwest in 1998 he was a graduate assistant in 1998 at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma. He returned to Northwest as a graduate assistant in 1999 when Bearcats won their second national championship in 1999. He received his master's degree from Northwest in 2000. He held position as offensive line coach at Dakota State University in 2000 and offensive coach at William Jewell College from 2001 to 2003.