Sport(s) | Football |
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Current position | |
Title | Head coach / athletic director |
Team | Tuskegee |
Conference | SIAC |
Record | 101–27 |
Biographical details | |
Born | Coffeeville, Alabama |
Playing career | |
1974–1977 | Livingston |
Position(s) | Quarterback |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1978 | Livingston (GA) |
1979–1980 | Jess Lanier HS (AL) |
1981–1982 | T. R. Miller HS (AL) |
1983–1990 | Troy State (OC/RB/QB) |
1991 | Livingston (OC) |
1992–1999 | North Alabama (OC) |
2000–2003 | Jacksonville State (OC) |
2004–2005 | Temple (OC/WR) |
2006–present | Tuskegee |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
2017–present | Tuskegee |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 101–247 |
Bowls | 3–1 |
Tournaments | 3–4 (NCAA D-II playoffs) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
5 Black college national (2007–2009, 2015–2016) 6 SIAC (2006–2009, 2012, 2014) 4 SIAC West Division (2012–2014, 2016) |
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Awards | |
5x NCAA Div II Assistant Coach of the Year |
Willie James Slater is an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He is the current head football at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama, a position he has held that position since the 2006 season. 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 has shared or outright claimed that crown four times since. Slater was appointed as athletic director at Tuskegee in 2017.