Tyler Haines

Haines joins Catawba College after serving as the Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach at Shepherd University during the 2022 season.

He most recently helped guide Shepherd to the Division II national semifinals. He helped guide Shepherd to a 13-2 record as the Rams won the Super Region One title game with a 48-13 victory over Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) on December 3. With the victory, Shepherd advanced to the NCAA Division II Football Championship semifinals before falling on the road to Colorado School of Mines.

Shepherd's 13 wins this season tied the school’s single-season mark. The Rams went a perfect 10-0 during the regular season to claim the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division title. Shepherd finished the regular season as the top-ranked team in Super Region One and ranked 11th in the country in the final regular season AFCA DII Coaches Poll. Bolstered by Haines’s high-scoring offense, Shepherd outscored its opponents 453-147 during the regular season. Following a loss to IUP in the PSAC Championship Game, the Rams won three playoff games to advance to the Division II national semifinals.

Shepherd ranked fifth nationally in scoring offense with 41.1 points per game, second in total offense (489.3 yards per game), second in first downs offense (354), third in completion percentage (.699) and seventh in passing offense (312.5 yards per game). Only six schools in all of DII had a higher winning percentage than the Rams (.867).

Under Haines’s tutelage, senior quarterback Tyson Bagent and senior offensive tackle Joey Fisher were named to the 2022 AFCA Division II Coaches' All-America Teams. Bagent gained first team honors while Fisher was a second team selection. Bagent, the PSAC Offensive Player of the Year, set the NCAA all-division record of career touchdown passes at 159 and the Division II completions record with 1,400 completed passes.

With only the Division II National Championship game left to play, Bagent currently sits atop the DII passing yards list with 4,580 yards. Bagent, who led the nation with 400 completions, also ranked second in passing touchdowns (41), second in completion percentage (.699), second in points responsible for (276), third in completions per game (26.67), fourth in passing yards per game (305.3), sixth in total offense (310.1) and 10th in passing efficiency (158.05). Junior running back Ronnie Brown finished the season with the highest total in all-purpose yards in all of DII football with 2,999 yards, the second-most rushing yards with 1,864 yards on the ground, the highest rushing yards per carry average (8.47), and ranked fourth in total points scored (150), fourth in total touchdowns (25), sixth in rushing touchdowns (19) and ninth in rushing yards per game (124.3).

Haines brings head coaching experience with him to Catawba. Haines had a five-year stint (2015-19) as the head coach at Division II Urbana University before the campus closed in 2020. He was the second-winningest coach in the program's 35-year history, going 22-33 overall with the Blue Knights. His final team at Urbana finished the 2019 season 7-4 overall and tied for second in the Mountain East Conference with a 7-3 league record. After turning the Urbana program around, 17 of his 22 wins came in his final three seasons with the Blue Knights.

Prior to his 2022 season at Shepherd University, Haines served as the Defensive Coordinator at Baldwin Wallace University for two seasons. He was also the Special Teams Coordinator and Linebackers Coach with the Yellow Jackets.

Haines also had coaching stints at Division II IUP and Division III Adrian College. He was the Offensive Coordinator at IUP for two seasons and helped lead the team to a 9-2 record in 2013. Haines held several coaching roles at Adrian College from 2008-12, including serving as the Assistant Head Coach in 2011 and 2012 and as the Offensive Coordinator during his final three seasons with the Bulldogs.

Haines graduated from Defiance College in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in integrated social studies secondary education. He was a three-year letterwinner at Defiance, a two-time team captain, and a two-time first team Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference selection at linebacker.

Haines and his wife, Logan, have three daughters, Harper (11), Hadley (9) and Holland (7).