Larry VanDerHeyden -- Offensive Line Coach, University of Alabama - Birmingham

(as of football season 2003) 2001 is Larry VanDerHeyden's seventh year as an assistant coach at UAB, working with the offensive line. He came to UAB in January, 1995, from the University of Arkansas, where he was the offensive line coach for the Razorbacks for two seasons (1993-94).
In 1996, the UAB offensive line boosted a running attack that set single-season team and individual records in rushing yards, average per game, and average per carry. The record-setting performance also included a new team record for rushing yards in a single game and the program's first 1,000-yard rusher.
Prior to coaching at Arkansas, VanDerHeyden was an assistant at Clemson University under head coaches Danny Ford and Ken Hatfield for 14 years. He was the offensive line coach for the Tigers for 11 seasons (1979-89) and was the offensive coordinator for three seasons (1990-92). During those 14 years, Clemson participated in nine post-season bowl games.
VanDerHeyden was the offensive coordinator at Memphis State University for four years (1975-78). Prior to that, he was an assistant coach at the University of Virginia (1974-75) and East Carolina University (1973-74). His coaching resume also includes working as the offensive coordinator at Indiana State (1969-73), assistant coach at Drake University (1969) and defensive line coach at Iowa State University (1965-67).
VanDerHeyden began his collegiate coaching career as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, Iowa State, in 1964. He was also an assistant coach at Lake City (Iowa) High School in 1963.
VanDerHeyden was a three-year letter winner in baseball and football at Iowa State. He earned his undergraduate degree in physical education from Iowa State in 1962 and completed his master's degree in education at Iowa State in 1968.

Lanny Van Eman (Alma Mater: Wichita State) -- Baseball / Basketball

A two-sport star, who was a shortstop at Wichita State from 1958-62. Van Eman, after a one-year stint with the Yankees' organization, returned to WU and coached the baseball team in 1964, going 8-10. As a coach, though, Van Eman was primarily known on the basketball court. After starting his basketball coaching career at Wichita State (15 years), he went on to be head coach at the University of Arkansas for four seasons.
After Arkansas he was a West Virginia assistant, Arizona State assistant, Oregon State assistant, Boston Celtics assistant (1988-90), and Dallas Mavericks assistant.

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Clyde Van Sickle -- Football

Lettered at Arkansas from 1927-29.
In 1930 Clyde played for the Frankford Yellow Jackets (11 games). Played nine games for the Green Bay Packers from 1932-33. NFL Stats.
He was the head coach at Little Rock Central High school from 1936-40, leading them to a 41-9-5 record. Won a State Championship in 1938 with a 10-0-1 record. Clyde coached at Arkansas in 1949 and 1952.

Fred von Appen -- Assistant Head Coach / Defensive Ends / Pass Rushers, University of Montana

(as of football season 2003) Fred was hired at Montana in 2003. He has been in the professional and collegiate coaching ranks for 34 seasons. He was most recently (2001) an assistant in the National Football League for the New York Giants and Minnesota Vikings (2000).
Prior to his one-year stints with the Giants and Vikings, von Appen spent 11 seasons at the college level, most recently as the head coach at the University of Hawaii from 1996-98. Prior to coaching at Hawaii he was the defensive line coach at Colorado in 1995 for a 10-2 team that defeated Oregon 38-6 in the Cotton Bowl.
From 1992-94, von Appen was the defensive coordinator at Stanford for Hall of Fame coach Bill Walsh. It was his third stint as an assistant coach under Walsh (Stanford, 1977-78; San Francisco 49ers, 1983-88; and Stanford, 1992-94).
He was the defensive coordinator and assistant head coach at Pittsburgh from 1990-91. Prior to coaching at Pittsburgh, von Appen worked one season at Stanford (1989) as the defensive coordinator under Dennis Green in his first season as the head coach.
The Giants position was von Appen's fourth coaching job in the NFL, having previously coached with the Vikings (2000), the 49ers (1983-88), and the Green Bay Packers (1979-80). In his six seasons with the 49ers, the team was 75-30-1 (.712) in the regular-season and the playoffs, made the playoffs all six seasons, won the NFC West Division title five times, and won two Super Bowl Championships (XIX and XXIII).
Von Appen began his coaching career at his alma mater, Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, from 1964-65. After leaving Linfield he coached at a pair of Oregon High Schools, Centennial and Medford, each for one season.
From there he went to Arkansas (1969), UCLA (1970), Virginia Tech (171), Oregon (1972-76), and then Stanford. While at Oregon he was the defensive coordinator for former Griz head coach Don Read.
His first chance in the NFL came was in Green Bay, where he worked for two seasons under Packer legend Bart Starr.

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