Les Lancaster -- Pitching Coach, Lakewood Blueclaws (A-) -- Philadelphia Phillies

(as of baseball season 2012) Les Lancaster was named the pitching coach for the Gulf Coast Phillies (R) in November 2010 and promoted to Lakewood (SAL, A-) on November 21, 2011. Previously he was named the manager of the independent Sioux City Explorers (All-American League) on November 19, 2007.
Lancaster came to the X's with impressive credentials after spending the past three seasons in the Golden Baseball League. While in the Golden League, Lancaster made the playoffs two out the three seasons and won a league championship in 2006 with the Reno Silver Sox. Prior to the Golden League, Les managed Adirondack (1999 & 2000) and Lincoln (2001 & 2002) of the Northern League and Coastal Bend (2003) from the Central League. In addition to his championship in 2006, Lancaster also led Adirondack to a championship in 2000 and has made the playoffs in 6 of the 8 seasons he has been a field manager. Les also received managerial honors by being named Independent League Manager of the Year in 2000 and Golden League Manager of the Year in 2006.
A prep star in Nimitz High School in Irving, TX in the early '80's, Lancaster played one year at Dallas Baptist College before transferring to the University of Arkansas where he spent three seasons with the Razorbacks.

David Lee -- Quarterbacks Coach, Buffalo Bills

(as of football season 2012) David Lee was named the quarterbacks coach for the Buffalo Bills on January 13, 2012. He spent the previous season on the Ole Miss football staff as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach..
That marked Lee’s second term on the Ole Miss coaching staff, as he was the Rebels’ quarterbacks coach from 1978-82. Under head coach Steve Sloan.
Lee reunited with Nutt for the third time in his coaching career, having twice served on his staffs at Arkansas, most recently in 2007 when the team advanced to a Cotton Bowl berth in Nutt’s final season in Fayetteville. Lee spent the past three seasons in the NFL as the Miami Dolphins’ quarterbacks coach and played a vital role in reintroducing and transforming the Wildcat offense at the pro level.
As offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2007, Lee presided over a Razorbacks offense that averaged 38.8 points per game and 457.4 yards per contest in the regular season, figures that ranked 12th and 18th nationally, respectively, and were school records. The running game in 2007 ranked fourth nationally, while as a team, Arkansas threw 24 touchdown passes and only 10 interceptions.
Nutt also hired Lee as his quarterbacks coach in 2001, where he spent two seasons and contributed to a team that won the 2002 SEC Western Division Championship and advanced to the SEC Championship Game.
Lee left Arkansas to join the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, where he helped develop Tony Romo from an undrafted college free agent in 2003 to a Pro Bowl selection in 2006. In Lee’s four years in Dallas, three different Cowboys signal-callers threw for 3,000 yards in a single season.
The 35-year coaching veteran served seven seasons at Rice University (1994-2000) as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
From 1989-93, he was the head coach at Texas-El Paso before moving on to Rice as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 1994.
Lee’s first stint with Arkansas was during a successful run in the late 1980s. As UA’s quarterbacks coach, Lee helped direct Razorback teams that sported a 45-15-1 record with five consecutive bowl appearances.
Included in that run was the 1986 season in which Arkansas quarterbacks threw just two interceptions (a SWC record) while helping the Hogs to a 10-2 record and an Orange Bowl appearance.
Promoted to offensive coordinator in 1988, Lee helped engineer the Hogs’ first Southwest Conference championship in nine years and first outright league title since 1965. The 1988 offensive unit committed just 11 turnovers in 11 games and led the nation in turnover ratio while featuring a pair of All-SWC sophomores, quarterback Quinn Grovey and fullback Barry Foster.
Lee began his coaching career in 1975 at Tennessee-Martin where he tutored quarterbacks and receivers for two seasons while organizing the first Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter in the school’s history.
He spent the 1977 season as quarterbacks coach at his alma mater Vanderbilt before his first tenure at Ole Miss. In 1983, Lee served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at New Mexico.
A three-year letterman at Vanderbilt, Lee served as team captain and was named the team’s most valuable player in 1974 after quarterbacking the Commodores to a 7-3-2 record, including a 24-10 upset of No. 5 Florida. Lee was voted SEC Player of the Week by the Associated Press after leading Vanderbilt to its first win over the Gators in 15 years.
Lee went on to lead the SEC in passing and guided his team to a 6-6 tie with Texas Tech in the Peach Bowl.
A native of Dexter, Mo., Lee prepped at Woodham High School in Pensacola, Fla., where he graduated in 1971. Lee earned an undergraduate degree in history from Vanderbilt in 1975.

Ryan Lennerton -- Student Assistant Baseball Coach, Wayne State College Wildcats

(as of baseball season 2012) Ryan Lennerton is in his first season ('08) on the Wayne State College baseball coaching staff and will work with pitchers. Lennerton spent the 2007 season as pitching coach at Galveston College in Galveston, Texas. Prior to that, he served as head coach of the U16 Langley British Columbia Blaze Team and served as pitching coach of the U18 Langley Blaze of the British Columbia Premier Baseball League.
Lennerton, a native of Langley, British Columbia, played collegiate baseball for Eastern Oklahoma State College for two years before transferring to the University of Arkansas. Playing under Razorbacks head coach Dave Van Horn, Lennerton was a member of Arkansas' 2004 team that reached the College World Series that also captured the 2004 Southeastern Conference Championship. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2001 (24th round) and 2002 (42nd round).
Lennerton is pursuing a degree in health sciences at Wayne State College.

Dowell Loggains -- Quarterbacks / Passing Game Coach, Tennessee Titans

(as of football season 2011) Dowell Loggains is in his first season as the quarterback/passing game coach. He spent two seasons ('08-'09) as the offensive quality control coach after spending the previous two campaigns as the team's coaching administrative assistant.

Dan Lounsbury -- Offensive Coordinator, Texas A&M University-Commerce Lions

(as of football season 2011) Dan Lounsbury comes back to Texas A&M-Commerce in 2009 after being a coach on both the professional and collegiate level. He will serve as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at A&M-Commerce.
After serving as a graduate assistant at A&M-Commerce, he went to coach on the professional level, he has worked with the New York/New Jersey Knights of the World League of American Football, the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and the Shreveport Knights of the Regional Football League. In addition, on the collegiate level, he has worked at Texas, TCU, Tulsa, Purdue, Cortland State, Southeastern Oklahoma State and Texas A&M-Commerce.
As a position coach, he has worked with multiple parts of the offense, including quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers.
Lounsbury was a graduate assistant at A&M-Commerce in 1979 and is reunited with Coach Morriss, where he coached the tight ends and slots at the University of Kentucky from 1999 to 2000.
A native of Watertown, New York, Lounsbury earned his bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Arkansas.

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