Working with the defensive backs, Marc DeLaere is in his third year at Illinois Wesleyan in 2015. He previously coached the defensive backs for the Titans in 2011 and 2012 before serving as a defensive consultant at Normal West High School during the 2013 and 2014 seasons.
DeLaere, who has taught and coached at the high school level for 12 years, was a three-year letterman as a linebacker at Northern Iowa in the 1990s as the Panthers won four conference championships and advanced to the NCAA playoffs each year.
He has bachelor’s degrees from both Northern Iowa (earth science, 1995) and Illinois State (education, 2000) and a master’s degree in kinesiology and coaching from Georgia Southern (2011). He and his wife (Robin) are parents of a son (Torin) and a daughter (Taylor) and live in Hudson, Ill.
Updated August 2015
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