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Craig Schurig 
Sport(s) Football Current position Title Head coach Team Washburn Conference MIAA Record 61–41 Biographical details Born March 2, 1965 Playing career 1983–1986 Colorado Mines Position(s) Defensive back Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1992
1993–2001
2002–presentColorado Mines (assistant)
Pittsburg State (assistant)
WashburnHead coaching record Overall 61–41 Accomplishments and honors Awards 2005 MIAA Coach of the Year
2005 AFCA Region 3 Coach of the YearCraig Schurig (born March 2, 1965) is the current head football coach for Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas and he held that position since the 2002 season. He is the 40th person to hold the post. As of the 2007 season, his overall coaching record at Washburn was 40 wins, 29 losses, and 0 ties.[1] He is known for turning around a once losing program to a winning program.[2]
Schurig has led the Washburn football program to a new level after building on a 2004 Mineral Water Bowl Championship. The Ichabods posted their first NCAA Division II Playoff appearance as well as Washburn’s first MIAA Championship in 2005. Schurig earned the MIAA Coach of the Year for his efforts leading the Ichabods that season. The conference championship was the first by the Ichabods since the 1983 season. He was also named the AFCA’s Region 3 Coach of the Year.[3]
Prior to becoming the Washburn head man, Schurig spent nine years under Chuck Broyles at Pittsburg State University.[4]
Personal life
Schurig graduated in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from Colorado School of Mines[5] and went on to earn a master’s degree in physical education at Pittsburg State in 1996. He lives in Topeka, Kansas with his wife, a daughter, and two sons.[6]
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Washburn Ichabods head football coaches Unknown (1891–1893) • W. M. Gains (1894) • No team (1895) • W. Griffith (1896) • Paul Coldren (1897–1898) • William Melford (1899) • Bennie Owen (1900) • Lawrence Banks (1901) • H. Ward Page (1902) • A. R. Kennedy (1903) • John H. Outland (1904–1905) • Garfield Weede (1906–1908) • Robert Stewart (1909–1910) • William L. Driver (1911–1912) • Glen Gray (1913–1915) • A. R. Kennedy (1916–1917) • Ernest Bearg (1918–1919) • Dwight Ream (1920–1921) • Glenn D. Vosburg (1922) • George Woodward (1923–1926) • Roy Wynne (1927–1928) • Ernest Bearg (1929–1935) • Elmer Holm (1936–1941) • Bob Raugh (1942–1943) • Dee Errikson (1944) • Lew Lane (1945) • Dick Godlove (1946–1958) • Ralph Brown (1959–1961) • Ellis Rainsberger (1962–1964) • Ed Linta (1965–1966) • Bill Schaake (1967–1968) • Harold Elliott (1969–1970) • Bob Noblitt (1971–1973) • Larry Elliott (1974–1978) • Gary Hampton (1979–1980) • Glenn Jagodzinske (1981–1982) • George Tardiff (1983–1984) • Larry Elliott (1984–1989) • Dennis Caryl (1990–1993) • Andy Williams (1993) • Tony DeMeo (1994–2001) • Craig Schurig (2002– )
Categories:- 1965 births
- Living people
- Pittsburg State Gorillas football coaches
- Washburn Ichabods football coaches
- Colorado School of Mines alumni
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