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Chris Stein - Quarterbacks/Passing Game Coordinator

2011-This is the 11th season Chris Stein has been on the Chadron State coaching staff. He primarily works with the quarterbacks and in 2007 he became the passing game coordinator.
Stein also works closely with CSC’s athletic marketing efforts.
In 2008, the CSC offense had one of its best seasons through the air under the tutelage of Stein as eight passsing records were set. In addition, CSC quarterbacks threw for 3,023 yards in 2008, the best total in CSC history.
Since Stein took reins of the passing game, the Eagles have been a consistent, not to mention, accurate, threat through the air. The top four completion percentage seasons in school history have all occured in the past five seasons and the top three have been successive.
In addition, the Eagles’ quarterbacks have completed at least 200 passes four straight years as a team. That had only occured four times in the history of the program prior to 2007.
Stein is a former CSC tight end who caught 107 passes for 1,281 yards and 14 touchdowns during his career that ended in 1989. He was selected the team’s outstanding offensive player, earned honorable mention All-American and was the first recipient of the Don Beebe Most Inspirational Player Award that season. He had the honor of being inducted into the CSC Athletic Hall of Fame in the fall of 2006.
As a player, Stein may be best remembered for catching the touchdown pass that allowed the Eagles to defeat Dakota Wesleyan 38-34 in the final game of the 1989 season.  The victory allowed the Eagles to advance to the NAIA playoffs for the first time.
After graduating, Stein coached high school football two years at Julesburg, Colo., four years at Gordon and one year at Gering. Led by teams that were 10-1 and 8-2 at Gordon, his career record is 35-29.
He then returned to CSC to work on his master’s degree and help coach the Eagles for three years.
After living in Rockford, Ill., Stein and his family returned to Chadron in 2003, when he became head coach of the Wyoming Cavalry of the National Indoor Football League.
Stein’s father, Dick Stein, had a 144-71 record while coaching the Chadron High football team for 22 years before retiring in 2000. Chris’s brother, Kevin, is the football coach at Grand Island Northwest.
Chris and his wife Nancy, a registered nurse, have five children — Kassi, also a registered nurse, Karyssa, Kendra, T.D. and Madison.