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The coach of the offensive line of the Knights of UCF, Shawn Clark, died almost two weeks after being hospitalized due to a medical emergency, the school announced Monday. I was 50 years old.
Clark suffered the health problem on September 9 and had been away from the team. It was said that he was stable at the hospital last week. The team did not reveal its official status at that time.
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The APALACHES state coach, Shawn Clark, observes the players to warm up before facing the UAB in the NCAA University Soccer game of New Orleans Bowl in New Orleans, on December 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Brett Duke)
“Shawn was much more than a coach,” said UCF chief coach Scott Frost, in a statement. “He was a man, husband and notable father who deeply cared about his players and the staff. The reaction of our players and coaches this morning is a testimony of Shawn’s character and the impact he had on every life he played. He was loved.”
Clark joined the Los Caballeros program after spending five years as coach of the mountaineers of the state of the Appalaches.
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The chief coach of the mountaineers of the state of the Apalaches, Shawn Clark, reacts to a call in the second half against the Pirates of Carolina del Este at the Dowdy-Ficklen stadium on September 14, 2024. (Images of James Guillory/Imagn)
He was the chief coach in Appalachian State, his alma mater, from 2019 to 2024. He was 40-24 in general and 3-1 in bowl games with victories at the New Orleans Bowl, Myrtle Beach Bowl and Cure Bowl.
“We are deeply saddened by the death of the state student of the application, the football All-American and former chief coach Shawn Clark. We extend our deepest sympathy to Shawn’s family and all who met him and loved him,” the school said in an X position.
Chief coach Shawn Clark talks to Asheville Citizen-Times Evan Gerike’s sports journalist after the APPstate Mountaineers football practice at the State University of the Apalaches in Boone, North Carolina, on Wednesday, October 23, 2024. (Network Jasper Colt / USA Today through IMAGN images)
He began his career as a coach in 2001 as a postgraduate assistant for Louisville cardinals. He was an offensive line coach with East Kentucky colonels, Purdue’s boilermakers and gold flashes of Kent State. He was the coach of the offensive line of the Mountaineers in 2016 and then the offensive coordinator before assuming the position of chief coach.
