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Mules Football adds three assistants

The University of Central Missouri football program has two new assistant coaches on staff with the additions of Josh Lamberson and Hank McClung.

“I am extremely excited to bring these men to our staff here at the University of Central Missouri.” UCM Head Coach Jim Svoboda said. “They bring an array of experience and success and have filled many roles at every step of their careers. They are proven recruiters and technicians, but most importantly, they are good people that demand the most out of student-athletes and treat them with respect.”

Josh Lamberson – Wide Receivers Coach/Recruiting Coordinator

Lamberson spent the last two seasons at Division II Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant as the quarterbacks coach and recruiting coordinator. He also spent seven years as an award-winning quarterback and position coach at Northwest Missouri State from 2001-07, where he played for Mules head coach Jim Svoboda for three seasons.

The SOSU quarterbacking corps threw for 25 touchdowns, 2,326 yards and posted eight interceptions which was the fewest in the LSC in 2008, before tossing for 2,939 yards with 27 TD’s and only 12 interceptions in 2009. Both quarterbacks he coached earned All-LSC honors.

Prior to Southeastern, he was a graduate assistant at Northwest Missouri State for two seasons in 2006 and 2007, helping them to the national championship game both times coaching the quarterbacks.

He was also an All-American quarterback on the field there, leading the Bearcats to the National Championship game in 2005. Posting a 4.0 GPA, he was the ESPN Academic All-American Football National Player of the Year as a senior, as well as the Disney Sportsman of the Year. Lamberson also won the Ken B. Jones Award for the MIAA’s top student-athlete in 2005.

On the field he is the all-time leading passer in school history and ranks third in MIAA history in yards. Lamberson was also a semifinalist for the Harlon Hill Trophy for the top player in NCAA Division II. He tied the NCAA-II record with 12 consecutive games passing for more than 200 yards, and was the Division II National Championship Game’s Most Valuable Player that same season. He posted a 24-6 overall record as the starting quarterback.

The Wilber, Nebraska product and his wife, Mandy, were married in the summer of 2009.

Hank McClung – Offensive Line Coach

McClung brings 23 years of college coaching experience into his first season at UCM, as well as 18 years as an offensive line coach. He has coached at five different NCAA Division II schools in the Lone Star Conference, and has deep roots in the state of Texas as a native of Midland.

Last season he was at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee but spent the previous six seasons as the offensive line coach at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. While there he coached an offensive unit that broke the school record with more than 5,000 yards in a season, and 742 yards in a game, as well as two 1,000-yard rushers. One of his running backs also broke the school record with 8.9 yards per carry in a season. He also helped the Rams to a Division II Playoff appearance in 2005.  

Prior to his time at ASU, McClung was at Division IAA Drake University (Iowa) from 2000-2002, where he also coached the offensive line. While at Drake, he helped lead the Bulldogs to the 2000 Pioneer Football League Championship, with his offensive line being named the team’s offensive MVP for its performance in 2002.

He made a one-year stop at Abilene Christian University (Texas) in 1999 after a three-year stint as head coach at Midwestern State University (Texas) from 1996-98. While there he directed the program’s move from the NAIA to NCAA Division II. He was the interim head coach there in 1995, and the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach in 1994 and 1995. During his time as the offensive coordinator, he also served as assistant head coach, and helped the team break every passing record in the books.

McClung also spent three seasons at Texas Tech, a season at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, and Eastern New Mexico University, his alma mater. He also coached under Mules head coach Jim Svoboda at Nebraska Wesleyan in 1988-89.

McClung received his bachelor’s degree in physical education from ENMU in 1986 where he also played football, and his master’s degree in sports and recreation management from Hardin-Simmons University in 2000.

He and his wife, Rhonda, have two children, Ben and Isabelle.