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Aug. 8, 2002--University of Delaware football first-year head coach K.C. Keeler has announced the addition of Frank Law and Brandon Walker to the Blue Hen coaching staff for the 2002 season.
Law, 51, who spent the previous 30 seasons as an assistant coach at Rowan University, including the last nine under Keeler, joins the UD staff as a part-time assistant coach. Walker, 22, joins the Blue Hen staff as a graduate assistant. Walker replaces Derek Barlow, who recently took a full-time assistant position at Gettysburg College.
Law, a native of Camden, N.J., earned his degree in education from Rowan University (then Glassboro State) in 1972 after a standout career for the Profs. He was a four-year varsity starter and served as team captain as a senior in 1971. He was inducted into the Rowan Athletics Hall of Fame in 2002.
He began a 30-year stint as an assistant coach at NCAA Division III Rowan in 1972, working with the defensive secondary, offensive line, offensive backfield and tight ends. He coached the offensive line since 1993 under Keeler and helped lead Rowan to nine NCAA playoff appearances and six New Jersey Athletic Conference titles since 1992. The Profs were national finalists five times.
Law runs a successful construction company in South Jersey. He and his wife, Michele, have two sons, Frank and William. William plays varsity soccer at Loyola College in Baltimore.
Walker, a native of Plantation, Fla., played baseball and was an All-State football player at American Heritage High School. He moved on to play college football for four years at NCAA Division III Elmhurst (Ill.) College, where he was a four-year starter on the offensive line and earned second team all-conference honors in 1999.
He earned his bachelor's degree in physical education from Elmhurst College in 2000 and served this past spring as a graduate assistant coach at NCAA Division II Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Ark. His father, Byron, is the director of athletics and head football coach at American Heritage High.
The Blue Hens will open the Keeler era at home against Georgia Southern at 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 29.
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