Long time Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC coaching mainstay, Chris Sprague, joined the Bloomsburg football coaching staff in March of 2023 as the Huskies’ offensive line coach.
During the 2023 season, the Huskies rushed for 122.55 yards per game and junior Kaleb Monaco had the best season of his career with 952 rushing yards, averaging 5.1 yards per carry, and had six touchdowns on the ground. The offensive line was one of the best in the PSAC, allowing the fewest sacks against (11) and fewest total sack yards (76).
Prior to joining the Huskies, Sprague spent the 2022 season at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. While at Bentley, the Falcons rushed for 180.6 yards per game and had 13 touchdowns on the ground. The offensive line allowed just 14 sacks for 84 yards during the 2022 season.
Prior to joining the staff at Bentley, Sprague made his second stop at PSAC-foe, Lock Haven. Sprague was the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach for the Bald Eagles from 2020-21 and was the defensive line coach in 2019. Prior to taking o-line position in 2020, he had at various times coached the defensive line, served as the run game coordinator, been the assistant head coach, the special teams coordinator the linebackers coach and a strength and conditioning coach.
Under Sprague’s leadership in 2019, the defensive line helped pave the way for a defensive unit that pressured opponents into throwing 11 interceptions. The Bald Eagles recorded 37 tackles for loss and nine sacks last season in 2019.
Prior to 2019, Sprague was no stranger to LHU football as he previously served as an assistant coach in some capacity or another at Lock Haven for nearly two decades. From 1997 to 2014 at Lock Haven, he held positions of defensive line coach, offensive line coach, special team's coordinator, linebackers coach and during his final four seasons at LHU (2011-14) he held the title of assistant head coach.
After the 2014 season, Sprague joined the coaching staff at Delaware State and served as the offensive line coach and run-game coordinator for three seasons from 2015-2017.
Since 1997, Sprague has led 27 players to All-Conference honors and three standouts to All-American status.
Also a certified strength and conditioning specialist. Sprague was four-year letter-winner and three-year starter at Ithaca. He helped lead the team to a 1988 NCAA Division II National Championship.
Sprague began his coaching career as a graduate assistant and restricted earnings offensive line coach at James Madison University from 1990-93. He followed that with three years at Penn State where he was a defensive quality control coach. During that time, the Nittany Lions competed in the Rose, Outback and Fiesta bowls.
Sprague is a 1990 graduate of Ithaca College where he was a three-year starter, part of the 1988 NCAA Division III national championship team and a member of the 1985 NCAA Division III national runner-up team.
After receiving his Bachelor of Science in physical education from Ithaca, Sprague earned his Master of Science in physical education from James Madison in 1993.
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