Evan McKissack - Football Coach - Murray State University Athletics

Evan McKissack

At MSU

Evan McKissack enters his third year as the tight ends/running backs coach at Murray State in 2022
Coached Damonta Witherspoon to back-to-back All-OVC honors in 2021
In his first season in 2020, coached Damonta Witherspoon to All-OVC second team and All-Newcomer honors

Before MSU

From 2017-19, served as an offensive graduate assistant at Kentucky
Notable players worked with at UK include All-American offensive lineman Bunchy Stallings, Logan Stenberg and George Asafo-Adjei, as well as All-American Benny Snell
Spent two seasons at Colquitt County HS (Ga.), where he served as the linebackers coach (2015) and special teams coordinator (2016)
Helped lead Packers to Georgia Class AAAAAA state title in 2015, as well as a national championship
Began his career at Enterprise HS (Ala.) in 2014 as the defensive line coach.

Personal

Graduated magna cum laude from Troy University in 2014 with a degree in math education
Played center at Troy (2010-2013)
Earned second-team All-Sun Belt honors in 2013 after helping lead Troy to a top-10 national ranking in total offense
Member of the 2010 Sun Belt Conference and New Orleans Bowl championship teams
In 2019, McKissack received his master’s degree in sport leadership from UK
Native of Birmingham, Alabama