North Carolina Central University Athletics

Kevin Maurice is entering his third season with the North Carolina Central University football program, having joined Trei Oliver’s coaching staff in March 2022. He currently serves as recruiting coordinator and running backs coach.
 
Maurice’s first season with NCCU saw the Eagles lead the MEAC in rushing offense, averaging nearly 211 yards per game on the ground. Running back Latrell Collier was a First Team All-MEAC selection, ranking second in the league in rushing, and quarterback Davius Richard, the MEAC Offensive Player of the Year, ran for 15 touchdowns.
 
Richard had 18 more rushing touchdowns in 2023, most in the MEAC, on his way to repeating as Offensive Player of the Year. The Eagles averaged 154.3 yards per game on the ground in 2023, a season in which they won nine games and made their first-ever FCS playoffs appearance.
 
Maurice joined the Eagles after serving as tight ends coach at New Mexico State University in 2021.
 
From 2017 through what ended up being the spring 2021 season, Maurice was running backs coach at Eastern Washington University. He was on the coaching staff in 2018, when the Eagles advanced to the NCAA Division FCS championship game, and in 2019, when Eastern Washington led all of FCS in total offense.
 
The 2018 Eagles squad set program records in scoring offense (647 total points) and six games in which they scored at least 50 points. Eastern Washington ranked in the top 20 nationally in total offense, rushing offense, and passing offense, the only program to do so.
 
Maurice coaches Sam McPherson, who became Eastern Washington’s first 1,000-yard rusher since 2013. He ranked fourth in all of FCS in rushing, and he was an All-Big Sky selection.
 
From 2014-16, Maurice was running backs coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of North Dakota, earning a share of the Big Sky title in 2016 to earn an FCS playoff berth and seeing a pair of Fighting Hawks earn All-America honors in John Santiago and Brady Oliveira.
 
Maurice was a graduate assistant at Perdue from 2012-13, before being named Director of Player Personnel. He was then elevated to assistant recruiting coordinator in February 2013.
 
His coaching career also included brief stops at FBS programs Nevada, Miami (Fla.) and Cincinnati.
 
Maurice began his coaching career at North Miami (Fla.) High School in 2008, where he served as offensive coordinator, and in 2009, he was running backs coach at Midwestern State in Texas.
 
A Miami, Fla., native, Maurice began his playing career as a running back at Eastern Arizona College from 2001-02 and transferred to the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP) for the 2003 and 2004 seasons. Maurice finished his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice at St. Joseph’s (Ind.) College in 2006, then he earned a master’s degree in sports management from Concordia University-Chicago in 2017.
 
Maurice and his fiance, Renee Riccioli, are the proud parents of two daughters, Amira and Haylee.