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Mike Clark is the head football coach at Bridgewater College, a Division III program located right outside of Harrisonburg, VA. Currently in his 26th season as head coach of the Eagles, Coach Clark has won 6 conference championships, 164 games, and made an appearance in the 2001 National Championship game. Coach Clark’s teams have won 10 or more games in six different seasons and have gone undefeated in the regular season multiple times. In his 26 years as head coach, Bridgewater has posted 15 winning seasons; before Coach Clark’s arrival, the team only had five winning seasons in its previous 64. Coach Clark’s coaching resume began at Murray State with Coach Frank Beamer, under whom he also served as Defensive Coordinator for Virginia Tech for five seasons in the late 80s and early 90s. In his "fourth quarter" of coaching as he refers to it, Coach Clark has learned the importance of high-level leadership lessons like delegation and keeping a neutral mindset: not getting too high or too low. As he says, "Winners and losers are both imposters."
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Mike Clark is the head football coach at Bridgewater College, a Division III program located right outside of Harrisonburg, VA. Currently in his 26th season as head coach of the Eagles, Coach Clark has won 6 conference championships, 164 games, and made an appearance in the 2001 National Championship game. Coach Clark’s teams have won 10 or more games in six different seasons and have gone undefeated in the regular season multiple times. In his 26 years as head coach, Bridgewater has posted 15 winning seasons; before Coach Clark’s arrival, the team only had five winning seasons in its previous 64. Coach Clark’s coaching resume began at Murray State with Coach Frank Beamer, under whom he also served as Defensive Coordinator for Virginia Tech for five seasons in the late 80s and early 90s. In his "fourth quarter" of coaching as he refers to it, Coach Clark has learned the importance of high-level leadership lessons like delegation and keeping a neutral mindset: not getting too high or too low. As he says, "Winners and losers are both imposters."
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