UCF soccer has added a well-known title to its teaching workers as Brandon Harris is taking up because the Knights’ new cornerbacks coach.
Harris is the youthful brother of Tim Harris Jr., who beforehand labored as UCF’s offensive coordinator/receivers coach final season underneath coach Gus Malzahn. His father, Tim Harris Sr., is a highschool teaching legend in Miami, having thrived at Booker T. Washington Senior Excessive College.
He spent the previous two seasons serving because the defensive coordinator at Florida Atlantic and beforehand labored at Florida Worldwide as a cornerbacks coach, defensive analyst and graduate assistant.
“I’m extremely excited to hitch the UCF program and compete on the highest stage within the Large 12 Convention,” Harris mentioned in a press release. “Rising up in South Florida, I’ve watched UCF construct a dynamic soccer tradition. Now, getting an opportunity to be right here and work with an excellent group of student-athletes and coaches is a chance I’m past excited for.
“The vitality, ardour, and imaginative and prescient of this program underneath Coach [Scott] Frost align completely with my teaching values, and I can not wait to get began.”
He grew up in South Florida and attended Miami, the place he performed cornerback from 2008-10 earlier than being drafted by the Houston Texans in 2011. Harris spent six seasons within the NFL, ending his taking part in profession with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Soccer League in 2017.
He turns into the eighth assistant coach becoming a member of Frost’s teaching workers this offseason: Steve Cooper (offensive coordinator), Alex Grinch (defensive coordinator), Shawn Clark (offensive line), McKenzie Milton (quarterbacks), Sean Beckton Sr. (receivers), Mike Dawson (defensive run sport coordinator) and Kenny Martin (defensive tackles).
The Knights have reportedly contacted Mark D’Onofrio (linebackers), Jimmy Beal (working backs) and Zach Duval (power and conditioning) about a number of different openings.
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