Dean Paul is in his ninth season as head coach at Ohio Northern University.

Paul has energized the ONU football program since arriving in 2004, leading the Polar Bears to 58 victories and national rankings in all of his eight seasons as head coach.

In 13 seasons as a head football coach at the NCAA Division III level, Paul has posted a 98-36 record, a winning percentage of .731.

Paul came to ONU after five highly successful seasons at Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Ky.

He guided the Saints to a 40-12 record in five seasons and ranks eighth among the nation’s leaders in winning percentage among active coaches.

Paul led Thomas More to the 2001 playoffs, where the Saints defeated MacMurray 34-30 in the first round before falling to Wittenberg in the second round.

Beginning with his first season in 1999, Paul led TMC to a 7-3 record after having posted just a 3-7 mark the previous year.

In 2000, the Saints went 9-1 and were ranked No. 28 by the AFCA.

Paul guided his 2001 team to a perfect 10-0 regular-season record, the third in school history as the team outscored its opponents by an overwhelming 389-133 margin. TMC finished 11-1 and a final ranking of No. 18 by the AFCA.

The 20-2 record over those two seasons is the best in TMC history, as is the Saints’ 17-game winning streak during that time.

Paul has had 25 All-America selections in his 11 seasons as head coach.

In the classroom, his ONU team improved its overall grade point average from a 2.25 to a 2.68 in just the first three quarters under Paul. This past spring quarter, the ONU football team had a combined GPA of 2.865, better than the national student body average of 2.73.

He serves as a voting member on the D3Football.com poll and  serves on the AFCA Football Council.

A four-year letterman at Mt. Union, he was named All-OAC in 1988 and 1990 and served as a team captain during his junior and senior seasons.

He ranks eighth all-time at Mt. Union with 2,013 career rushing yards and is fifth in rushing touchdowns with 19.

His first collegiate coaching job came when he coached the running backs at Allegheny (Pa.) from 1991-92, helping the Gators to 19 victories in those two seasons.

He also was an assistant coach at Tulane in 1993 and 1994, at Wooster from 1995-97 and at Fordham in 1998 before taking over as head coach at TMC in 1999.

A native of Garrettsville, Ohio, Dean Bradley Paul received his Bachelor of Science degree in Sports Management from Mt. Union in 1990.

He and his wife, Tonya, have a daughter, Kendra (17), and two sons, Bryce (11) and Brandon (9).

Bob Rohan is in his eighth season as an associate head coach at Ohio Northern.

Rohan will also be an instructor in ONU’s human performance and sport science department and will be the director of intramurals at Ohio Northern.

He coaches the running backs.

Rohan, who has 21 years of coaching experience, joins the Polar Bears after a three-year stint as an assistant coach at Ashland, where he coached quarterbacks and specialists.

He also had assistant coaching stints at Clarion (Pa.) from 1997-99, Frostburg State (Md.) from 1993-96, Catholic (D.C.) in 1992, Maryland in 1991 and at Bishop McNamara H.S. from 1987-90.

Most of his coaching experience has been on offense with quarterbacks, specialists and as a coordinator, but has coached on both side of the ball.

He received his bachelor’s degree in physical education from Maryland in 1992 and his master’s degree from Frostburg State in health and physical education in 1996.

Rohan played safety at Salisbury State (Md.) in 1985 and helped his squad to the regional finals that year.

As a freshman, he played quarterback for Shepherd (W.Va.) in 1983.

Rohan and his wife, Amy, have six children; Sarah, Daniel, Greg, Matthew and twins Anna and Rachel.

Nick Hajjar is in his eighth season as a full-time assistant coach at Ohio Northern after serving in 2004 as a graduate assistant. He is the assistant head coach, is the quarterbacks coach and is the offensive coordinator.

Hajjar also recruits Central Ohio, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.

He was a two-time All-American and three-year captain at Wooster and represented the Scots in the 2003 Aztec Bowl in Cancun, Mexico.

Nick, a Marion, Ohio, native, graduated from Wooster with a degree in history with a minor in education  in 2003.

He received his masters degree in educational administration and leadership from Bowling Green State in 2006.

Hajjar ended his career with 14 interceptions, 196 tackles and 48 passes broken up.

He was also the school’s all-time leader in career punt return average (11.4) and was second in punt return yards (935) and kickoff return yards (1,458).

Nick and his wife, Abbey, reside in Marysville with their 4-year old son, Nicholas, Jr., and their newborn son, Wes.

Adam Gonzaga is in his second season as an assistant football coach at Ohio Northern. He will coach the defensive backs and serve as defensive coordinator.

He returns to Ohio Northern in 2011 after a 1-yearstint as defensive backs coach at Texas El-Paso, where he helped guide the Miners to the 2010 New Mexico Bowl.

Gonzaga served as secondary coach and Defensive Coordinator at Ohio Northern in 2009 and as defensive backs coach at Bowling Green State in 2007 and 2008.

Prior to his stint at BGSU, Gonzaga spent five years at Northwood (Mich.) from 2002-06, at Navy in 2001, Greenville (Ill.) College in 1999 and 2000, Connecticut (1998), Lafayette (1997-98), Montana State (1996), Pacific (1993-95) and one season as a volunteer assistant at Stanford in 1992.

Gonzaga is a 1992 graduate of Azusa Pacific with a B.A. in education.

He is married to the former Heidi James and they have two children, Alexis (15) and Addison (10). They reside in Ada.

Former Ohio Northern standout Devin Russell has returned to his alma mater and is in his third season as an assistant football coach at Ohio Northern.

He coaches the offensive line.

Russell returns to ONU after coaching stints at John Carroll and NCAA Division I-AA Morehead St.

He served as graduate assistant at Morehead State in 2008, coaching the offensive line.

Russell was also the assistant offensive line coach at John Carroll in 2006 and 2007.

The Worthington, Ohio, native earned his bachelor’s degree in sport management from Ohio Northern in the spring of 2006.

While at Ohio Northern, Russell was a three-year letterman and earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors as a junior in the fall of ’04.

He married Diane Arnos (PharmD ’07) in June and resides in Harrod.

Mike Schmitz is in his first season as an assistant coach at Ohio Northern and will coach the quarterbacks.

Schmitz comes to ONU after a 13-year stint as head football coach at Wooster, where he compiled a 74-54 record.

He was named the North Coast Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2004 and 2008 and was the Lee Tressel Ohio College Coach of the Year in 2004.

In 2004, he guided the Scots to an 11-1 record and a No. 6 national ranking.

He also served as offensive coordinator at Wooster from 1995-2000.

Prior to his 18 seasons at Wooster, Schmitz enjoyed a highly successful high school coaching career.

He was head football coach at Lexington, Medina, Archbishop Hoban and Rittman high schools from 1976-1995.

Schmitz received his bachelor's degree in education from Bowling Green in 1974.

He and his wife, Peggy, an attorney and partner in the Critchfield Law Firm in Wooster, have two adult children, Joie and Stephen, who work for Under Armor in Baltimore, Maryland.

Cody Cruzen is in his third season as an assistant coach at his alma matter and will coach the defensive backs.

Cruzen was a 4-year member of the ONU football squad from 07-10 before his senior season was cut short due to injury. He earned his B.A. degree in Physical and Health Education from ONU

Bob Copeland is in his sixth season as an assistant coach at Ohio Northern and will assist with the offense and serve as the head coach of the ONU Freshman squad.

Prior to arriving at ONU, he coached high school football from 1968-2005 and is a member of the Indiana Football Hall of Fame.

He has a bachelor’s degree from Ohio in 1968 and a master’s degree from Miami in 1969.

Randy Davis is in his eighth season serving as Team Chaplain for the Ohio Northern football team.

He is also the pastor of the First Assembly of God Church in Lima. His goal is to communicate a spiritually relevant message to motivate the team to win on and off the field.

Prior to assisting ONU, Davis served as Team Chaplain for 1-AA football powerhouse Youngstown State University for two years (2001-02).

Tony Roob is in his third season as an assistant coach at Ohio Northern and will coach the tight ends.

Roob has a long history of coaching football at the high school level, serving as an assistant coach at Bath, Saint Marys and Middletown High Schools in Ohio.

He currently teaches at Bath High School.

He received his bachelor’s degree from Miami (Ohio) University, where he enjoyed a stanbdout career playing on the offensive line.

Andrew Terwilliger is in his first season as Director of Football Operations and Director of Football Recruiting at Ohio Northern.

Terwilliger will focus on recruiting prospective student/athletes.

He comes to ONU after two seasons as offensive graduate assistant and wide receivers coach at Findlay.

Terwilliger played at Findlay and Otterbein before an injury cut his playing career short.

He then served as an student assistant at Otterbein until his graduation in 2008.

Upon graduation from Otterbein, Terwilliger worked for Ohio Health in the neighborhood care-prephysical therapy department in Columbus from 2008-11.