With 13 years of collegiate coaching experience, Jermaine Gales joined the North Carolina Central University staff as wide receivers coach in the summer of 2016.
Gales had two stints at Mars Hill University as the Lions’ wide receivers coach, first from 2006-09 and then from 2013-15.
In between his Mars Hill stops, Gales spent three seasons (2010-12) as associate head coach and offensive coordinator at Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina. While serving as offensive coordinator with a focus on running backs (2010-11) and quarterbacks (2012), he engineered record-breaking offensive performances. The Falcons set the modern era school record by averaging 28.3 points per game in 2010, the same season they won the Pioneer Bowl for the program’s first postseason victory. In 2012, Gales offensive unit broke the same record with a scoring average of 30.5 points per contest.
Gales started his coaching career at his alma mater Southern Arkansas University, coaching the wide receivers for three seasons (2003-05).
He was a two-year letterman as a wide receiver at Mt. San Antonio College before transferring to SAU in 1996. He started for two seasons at SAU and helped the Muleriders to the 1997 Gulf South Conference championship.
Gales earned his bachelor’s degree in biological science at Southern Arkansas in 2002. While working as a graduate assistant at SAU, he received his Master of Education degree in Kinesiology.
