University of Northern Colorado Athletics
Preston Hadley Selected for Tampa Bay Buccaneers National Coaching Academy
3/19/2024 1:55:00 PM | Football
TAMPA, Fla. – Northern Colorado defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Preston Hadley has been selected to participate in the inaugural Tampa Bay Buccaneers National Coaching Academy. The Academy will take place this coming May.
"It's very humbling to be selected as a finalist for the National Coaching Academy. I'm very thankful and view this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Hadley said. "I look forward to gaining this additional knowledge and experience from the Buccaneers organization and hope to use it to help our current players here at UNC further develop as athletes and men."
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers established a coaching academy that delivers an intensive, comprehensive curriculum and opportunity to participate in the team's 2024 rookie minicamp for coaching candidates seeking their first entry into the NFL. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers National Coaching Academy is open to all persons with three or more years of coaching or work experience in a football program at the high school, college, or semi-professional league level, irrespective of background or status. Twenty-five finalists were selected from a global search and participants will be awarded full scholarships to cover costs in Tampa for the week-long Academy.
The inaugural class will receive valuable on-field experience, interactive sessions, business insights, media training, film review, and instruction on key football software with NFL players, coaches, and staff. Participants will be given hands-on instruction as well as valuable networking opportunities with Buccaneers coaches and staff members throughout the organization. The Academy complements the NFL's long-established Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship, created in 1987, to open pathways for minority coaches into the league.
"It's very humbling to be selected as a finalist for the National Coaching Academy. I'm very thankful and view this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Hadley said. "I look forward to gaining this additional knowledge and experience from the Buccaneers organization and hope to use it to help our current players here at UNC further develop as athletes and men."
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers established a coaching academy that delivers an intensive, comprehensive curriculum and opportunity to participate in the team's 2024 rookie minicamp for coaching candidates seeking their first entry into the NFL. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers National Coaching Academy is open to all persons with three or more years of coaching or work experience in a football program at the high school, college, or semi-professional league level, irrespective of background or status. Twenty-five finalists were selected from a global search and participants will be awarded full scholarships to cover costs in Tampa for the week-long Academy.
The inaugural class will receive valuable on-field experience, interactive sessions, business insights, media training, film review, and instruction on key football software with NFL players, coaches, and staff. Participants will be given hands-on instruction as well as valuable networking opportunities with Buccaneers coaches and staff members throughout the organization. The Academy complements the NFL's long-established Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship, created in 1987, to open pathways for minority coaches into the league.
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