Cedric Calhoun - Football Coach - Dartmouth College Athletics

Cedric Calhoun

Title:
Assistant Coach - Defensive Line
Alma Mater:
Morehouse ’95
At Dartmouth:
3 Seasons (2006-08)

Calhoun is in his third season as Dartmouth's defensive line coach. In 2007, one of his players, DE Cullen Gilchrist, earned All-Ivy honorable mention.

Calhoun joined the Big Green staff in 2006 after serving as defensive line coach at Alabama A&M University from 2002-05. He helped fashion a unit that led the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) in total defense and sacks for four straight seasons. Six of his players won All-SWAC honors, contributing to a 32-15 record and a nine-win season in 2005.

Alabama A&M won the SWAC Eastern Division title in 2002 and 2005. The Bulldogs were nationally ranked in Division 1-AA in total defense, finishing second in 2002, third in 2003, fourth in 2004 and seventh in 2005.

Among the Bulldogs players coached by Calhoun is Robert Mathis, the SWAC defensive player-of-the-year in 2002. A fifth-round draft pick in 2003, Mathis is now in his fourth season as a defensive end with the Indianapolis Colts.

Calhoun was an all-conference defensive end at Grossmont Community College in San Diego and then received his B.A. degree in health and physical education from Morehouse College in 1995.

He began his coaching career at Idaho State University in 1997, serving as the head strength and conditioning coach and also assisting the defensive line coach.

He returned to Morehouse in 1998 and spent four seasons as defensive line coach, including back-to-back eight-game winning seasons. One of his players, Isaac Keys, signed as a free agent with the Minnesota Vikings and was a linebacker with the Arizona Cardinals in 2006.

During the summers of 2004 and 2005, Calhoun held a defensive line internship with the San Diego Chargers through the NFL's Minority Internship Program. This summer he was an intern with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Calhoun's wife, Olushola, is a registered nurse at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. The Calhouns have two daughters, Olusade and Adejola.