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West, Chip
Chip West
- Title:
- Cornerbacks
- Email:
- westm@marshall.edu
West will coach Marshall’s cornerbacks in 2019.
He comes to Huntington after serving as co-defensive coordinator on Brad Lambert's 49ers staff in 2018 and coached corners there as well.
West, who has 20 years of college coaching experience including stints at Virginia, Old Dominion and James Madison, coached in 2017 at Howard University. He served as co-Defensive Coordinator, Cornerbacks Coach and Recruiting Coordinator. He spent six seasons at Virginia, where he was Cornerbacks Coach and Recruiting Coordinator.
West joined Virginia’s staff in 2010 as Cornerbacks Coach. In 2012, he took on assistant recruiting coordinator duties and at the end of the 2012 season became the Cavaliers Recruiting Coordinator while continuing to coach the cornerbacks. In 2013, he signed a top-30 class for Virginia and in February, 2014, Rivals.com and Scout.com named West its ACC Recruiter of the Year. He earned the same honor from 247Sports in 2011 and was a finalist for National Recruiter of the Year honors. While at Virginia, he coached two-time all-ACC first-teamer Chase Minnifield, who played in the NFL with the Washington Redskins, current Baltimore Raven Maurice Canaday and Ras-I Dowling, who was a second round pick in the 2011 NFL Draft (New England Patriots). The Cavaliers secondary also included Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles safety Rodney McLeod.
He coached wide receivers at Colgate from 1999-2002 and helped the Raiders to the 1999 Patriot League title and the 2002 league co-championship. He was the defensive backs coach at Fordham in 2003 before heading to JMU, where he coached defensive backs from 2004-06. He helped the Dukes to the NCAA Division I-AA National title in 2004, alongside current 49ers’ coach Ulrick Edmonds and strength coach Jim Durning. From 2007-09 he was an assistant head coach for head coach Bobby Wilder at Old Dominion while serving as Recruiting Coordinator and Defensive Backs coach.
A 1993 graduate of Livingstone College, West added his master’s degree in 1999 from West Virginia, where he started his coaching career as a graduate assistant, 1997-98.
A Hampton, Va., native, West and his wife, Patrice have five children: Zoe, David, Gwen, Justin and Jada. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from Livingstone College, and his master’s in physical education from West Virginia. West played football at Kecoughtan High School and was a standout receiver at Livingstone.
He comes to Huntington after serving as co-defensive coordinator on Brad Lambert's 49ers staff in 2018 and coached corners there as well.
West, who has 20 years of college coaching experience including stints at Virginia, Old Dominion and James Madison, coached in 2017 at Howard University. He served as co-Defensive Coordinator, Cornerbacks Coach and Recruiting Coordinator. He spent six seasons at Virginia, where he was Cornerbacks Coach and Recruiting Coordinator.
West joined Virginia’s staff in 2010 as Cornerbacks Coach. In 2012, he took on assistant recruiting coordinator duties and at the end of the 2012 season became the Cavaliers Recruiting Coordinator while continuing to coach the cornerbacks. In 2013, he signed a top-30 class for Virginia and in February, 2014, Rivals.com and Scout.com named West its ACC Recruiter of the Year. He earned the same honor from 247Sports in 2011 and was a finalist for National Recruiter of the Year honors. While at Virginia, he coached two-time all-ACC first-teamer Chase Minnifield, who played in the NFL with the Washington Redskins, current Baltimore Raven Maurice Canaday and Ras-I Dowling, who was a second round pick in the 2011 NFL Draft (New England Patriots). The Cavaliers secondary also included Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles safety Rodney McLeod.
He coached wide receivers at Colgate from 1999-2002 and helped the Raiders to the 1999 Patriot League title and the 2002 league co-championship. He was the defensive backs coach at Fordham in 2003 before heading to JMU, where he coached defensive backs from 2004-06. He helped the Dukes to the NCAA Division I-AA National title in 2004, alongside current 49ers’ coach Ulrick Edmonds and strength coach Jim Durning. From 2007-09 he was an assistant head coach for head coach Bobby Wilder at Old Dominion while serving as Recruiting Coordinator and Defensive Backs coach.
A 1993 graduate of Livingstone College, West added his master’s degree in 1999 from West Virginia, where he started his coaching career as a graduate assistant, 1997-98.
A Hampton, Va., native, West and his wife, Patrice have five children: Zoe, David, Gwen, Justin and Jada. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from Livingstone College, and his master’s in physical education from West Virginia. West played football at Kecoughtan High School and was a standout receiver at Livingstone.
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