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Mel Tjeerdsma
Northwest Missouri State University
Tjeerdsma led the
Northwest Missouri State University Bearcats to five consecutive
appearances in the Division II Championship Game and to three NCAA
titles. He and Bobby Wallace are the only coaches in the 37-year
history of the Division II Football Championship to have coached
three national championship teams.
Tjeerdsma has 243
overall collegiate wins and has won 12 conference championships at
Northwest Missouri State and made 13 NCAA playoff appearances.
His 42 playoff games
coached, 32 playoff wins and seven Championship Game appearances are
the most in Division II history. His 1998 national championship team
was also the first in Division II history to go 15-0. His other
national titles came in 1999 and 2009. His teams finished as the
national runner-up in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
A four-time AFCA National Coach of the Year (1998,
1999, 2008, 2009), Tjeerdsma won 11 MIAA Coach of the Year awards
and seven regional coach of the year awards.
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