DURHAM, N.C. (www.NCCUEaglePride.com) – Henry Frazier III, who was named North Carolina Central University’s new head football coach on Dec. 16, has announced his coaching staff.

Among the 10 assistant coaches, four rejoin Frazier from his prior coaching position at Prairie View A&M University, including Dwayne Foster (Assistant Head Coach/Recruiting Coordinator/Offensive Line), Michael Bryant (Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks), Roy Jones (Director of Football Operations/Tight Ends) and Lamar Manigo (Wide Receivers).

Four coaches have been retained from last season’s Eagles staff, including Mike McGlinchey (Special Teams Coordinator/Running Backs) and Antoine Rivens (Defensive Line), along with former NCCU gridiron student-athletes Jamar Harp (Assistant Offensive Line/Video Coordinator) and Andre George (Assistant Defensive Backs).

Rounding out the staff are John Morgan (Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Backs), who served as defensive coordinator at NCCU in 2007, and Mike Mendenhall (Linebackers/Assistant Special Teams).

Foster has been with Frazier for the past six seasons after joining Prairie View in 2005 as running backs coach. He was also with Frazier in 2003 at Bowie State as offensive line coach. In between those stints, he was the tight ends and running backs coach at Catholic University in his hometown Washington, D.C. Foster started his coaching career as head coach at his alma mater, Archbishop Carroll High School, from 1997-2003. During his successful tenure, he was named the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1998. A 1993 graduate of Delaware State University, Foster helped lead the Hornets to two MEAC football championships.

Bryant has spent the past eight seasons as a part of Frazier’s staff. For six of the last seven campaigns, Bryant served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Prairie View. In 2003, he was an assistant at his alma mater Bowie State University during Frazier’s final year as head coach of the Bulldogs. A native of Washington, D.C., Bryant was a standout wide receiver and return specialist at Bowie State from 1998-2001. He was a three-year football captain and all-conference athlete, earning back-to-back Team Offensive MVP honors in 2001 and 2002. He received a bachelor’s in communications in 2001 and a master’s of arts in public administration in 2003, both from Bowie State.

Jones has spent the past decade on the sidelines with Frazier, including three seasons at Bowie State (2001-03) as wide receivers coach and the last seven seasons at Prairie View as tight ends coach and operations director. After serving in the United States Marine Corps following high school graduation, Jones spent eight seasons as an assistant coach in Maryland high schools, with stops at his alma mater Bladensburg (1993-97), Central (1998-99) and Eleanor Roosevelt (2000). The Washington, D.C., native earned a bachelor’s degree from Prairie View in 2007.

After graduating from Bowie State in 2007, Manigo joined Frazier’s Prairie View staff as an offensive assistant. Two seasons later and after earning a master’s degree from Prairie View, he took over the wide receivers in 2009. Manigo was a four-year starting quarterback at Bowie State from 2003-06, playing his rookie season with the Bulldogs under Frazier’s tutelage. He guided BSU to the 2005 CIAA Championship Game against NCCU, and set school records for touchdown passes thrown in a game, season and career.

Morgan rejoins the NCCU coaching staff after spending last season as the inside linebackers coach at Delaware State and two seasons (2008-09) as head coach at Friendly High School in Fort Washington, Md. A native of Washington, D.C., and two-time graduate of Bowie State, Morgan directed NCCU’s 2007 defense to national Division I-FCS rankings of No. 6 in pass defense, No. 10 in pass efficiency defense and No. 18 in total defense. He spent three seasons (2003-05) as head coach at Fort Valley State University, amassing a 22-11 overall record. Morgan had two stints at his alma mater, first as defensive and recruiting coordinator (1995-98) and then again for two seasons (2001-02) as associate head coach and defensive and recruiting coordinator during Frazier’s tenure. He has also made coaching stops at Salisbury State (1999), Morgan State (2000) and Maryland (2006). As a student-athlete at Bowie State, Morgan was an All-CIAA performer his freshman campaign and broke the school record for tackles in a season with 133 takedowns in 1992.

Mendenhall comes to NCCU following two seasons as a graduate assistant coach at the University of New Mexico, where he worked with special teams and linebackers. He spent the two previous seasons (2007-08) coaching the defensive line and tight ends at his high school alma mater in Paulsboro, N.J., after beginning his coaching career as a student assistant at Temple, his college alma mater. Mendenhall was a four-year starter for the Owls (2002-05), starting 33 games as a defensive end. He was a first team all-Big East pick as a junior in 2004. As a senior in 2005, Mendenhall was a preseason honorable mention All-America and on the Watch List for the Lombardi Award (top lineman). He went on to appear in one preseason game for the Chicago Bears in 2006. In 2007, he played middle linebacker for the Berlin Thunder in NFL Europe. Mendenhall received his bachelor's degree in business administration and accounting from Temple in 2008.

McGlinchey enters his third season on the NCCU coaching staff after working with the defensive line in 2009 and 2010. He spent the prior eight seasons as a running backs coach on the sidelines of his alma mater, Towson University. A 1999 graduate of Towson University with a degree in Sports Studies, McGlinchey was a four-year letterwinner with the Tigers as an offensive guard and tight end. He began his coaching career in March of 2000 as tight ends coach at the University of New Hampshire. After spending the spring with the Wildcats, he accepted a job as the tight ends coach with the Princeton University Tigers, where he spent the 2000 gridiron campaign.

Rivens returned to NCCU last season to work with tight ends and offensive tackles after seven seasons at Coastal Carolina as assistant head coach and defensive line coach. He spent four seasons (1999-2002) with the Eagles as assistant head coach and offensive line coach under head coach Rudy Abrams. Prior to his NCCU tenure, Rivens was the offensive line and special teams coach at Livingstone College, helping the Blue Bears to the 1997 and 1998 CIAA Conference titles. A three-year starter and letterwinner on the offensive line at South Carolina, he was selected Freshman Player of the Year in 1989 and as a team captain for his senior season. Rivens graduated in 1992 with a degree in criminal justice. Following his collegiate career, Rivens played professionally with the former Charlotte Rage of the Arena Football League (1994) and the Shreveport Pirates in the Canadian Football League (1995).

Harp joined the Eagles coaching staff prior to the 2010 season to serve as an offensive assistant coach. He lettered three seasons on NCCU's offensive line from 2000-03. A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Harp graduated from NCCU in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and marketing. He earned a master’s degree in sport administration from Grambling State University in 2007, and has completed studies towards a Ph.D. degree in sport studies at the University of Iowa. Harp was the assistant offensive line coach and video coordinator at Howard University during the 2007 season.

A four-year starter in the NCCU secondary (2002-03, 2005-06), George returned to the Eagles as a coach during the 2010 campaign, assisting with the defensive backs. During the prior three seasons (2007-09), he coached defensive backs and assisted with outside linebackers at Southern High School (Durham, N.C.), helping the Spartans to three straight PAC-6 titles. During his playing career at NCCU, George amassed 150 tackles and 10 interceptions. Seven of his picks came during his senior season, when he earned first team all-CIAA and first team all-region honors. George graduated from NCCU in 2007 with a degree in public health.