Tracy Claeys
| Sport(s) | Football |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
December 25, 1968 Clay Center, Kansas |
| Alma mater | Kansas State |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1994 | Santa Fe Trail HS (Co-DC) |
| 1995–1998 | Saginaw Valley State (DL) |
| 1999–2000 | Emporia State (DC) |
| 2001–2007 | Southern Illinois (DC) |
| 2008–2010 | Northern Illinois (DC) |
| 2011–2013 | Minnesota (DC) |
| 2014–2015 | Minnesota (AHC/DC) |
| 2015 | Minnesota (Interim HC) |
| 2016 | Minnesota |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 11–8 |
| Bowls | 2–0 |
Tracy Lee Claeys (born December 25, 1968) is an American football coach who is the former head coach at the University of Minnesota. He served as an assistant for his predecessor, Jerry Kill for 21 years at Saginaw Valley State, Emporia State, Southern Illinois, Northern Illinois, and Minnesota--the last 16 as his defensive coordinator.
Claeys was born and raised in Clay Center, Kansas, where he began playing football in junior high school at Clay Center Community High School.
Claeys got his start in coaching when he attended the University of Kansas and served as a student trainer and later as an unpaid assistant coach for head coach Glen Mason. After three years at Kansas, he transferred to Kansas State University and took a job as an assistant at his old high school, earning a salary of $1. After graduating with a degree in Mathematics Education in 1994 from Kansas State, he was hired at Santa Fe Trail High School as a math teacher and co-defensive coordinator of the football team.
In 1995, Claeys was hired as the defensive line coach at Saginaw Valley State, under head coach Jerry Kill. When Kill took the head coaching job at Emporia State in 1999, Claeys followed and was promoted to defensive coordinator. He continued to serve as defensive coordinator at Kill's future head coaching stops at Southern Illinois, Northern Illinois, and Minnesota.
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