Kent Maugeri is in his seventh season in 2015 as a full-time assistant coach for the Lindenwood football program. Maugeri is in charge of the Lindenwood secondary and is the team’s Special Teams Coordinator. He is also the team's Recruiting Coordinator.
Since Maugeri joined the Lions as a full-time coach in 2009, the program has gone 43-25, and the team’s secondary has become one of the team’s best units. Lindenwood has recorded 84 interceptions, and it is allowing just 217.4 passing yards a game in that span.
Last season, Maugeri coached two all-conference defensive backs in Roderick Ryles and Jeremy Morris, and one all-MIAA special teams player in kickoff returner Lavorrie Johnson. The team’s defense allowed 205.0 passing yards a contest, which was in the upper half of the MIAA. Johnson became the fifth player in school history with over 400 kickoff return yards.
In 2013, Maugeri was the position coach for the top player in school history. Pierre Desir earned the Cliff Harris Award as the top defensive player in the nation at the small college level. Desir had four interceptions and eight pass breakups on the year despite rarely being targeted. He also earned All-American, all-region, and all-conference honors, and was a fourth-round draft pick by the Cleveland Browns. Besides Desir, Wesley Thomas also earned honorable mention all-MIAA honors.
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On special teams, Lindenwood had the best punting unit in the MIAA and punter Edward Burns was a third-team all-MIAA pick. Tre’ Roby was one of the most explosive return men in the MIAA, averaging 23 yards per kickoff return.
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In 2012, Maugeri also coached Desir who earned AFCA All-American, D2Football.com second-team All-American, first-team all-region, and first-team all-MIAA honors. Desir set a school record with nine interceptions on the season and he was second among all levels of NCAA football in interceptions. Desir also led the MIAA with 18 pass breakups. The Lions tied for fourth in the MIAA with 14 total interceptions and ranked eighth in pass defense by allowing 224.6 passing yards a game.
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Lindenwood’s explosive special teams unit had three return touchdowns on the year, including two punt return touchdowns in a two-possession win over Missouri Southern.
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In 2011, Maugeri helped Christian Golder be named a NCAA Division II honorable mention All-American by the Beyond Sports College Network. Against the toughest schedule in school history, the Lions intercepted 13 passes and allowed less than 240 passing yards a game. Three of those interceptions were returned for touchdowns.
In 2010, the secondary held opponents to under 190 yards passing a game. The unit also picked off 15 total passes. In 2009, the Lindenwood secondary picked off 23 passes and held opponents to just under 220 yards passing per game. The Lions had nine interceptions in four postseason games that year during the team’s run to the NAIA National Championship game. In the team’s final two seasons in the HAAC, six secondary players earned all-conference honors, including Hakim Thomas being named first-team in 2010.
Maugeri was a graduate assistant on the 2008 Lindenwood staff. A native of Daytona Beach, Fla., Maugeri gained a number of years of experience in the highly competitive North Florida high school ranks.
Maugeri graduated from Western Connecticut State in 2004. He and his wife, Cathy, have a son (Blaine) and a daughter (Kylie).
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