Monty Lewis

Monty Lewis (born January 2, 1963) is an American football coach. He is the head football coach at Winfield High School in Winfield, Kansas. Lewis served as the head football coach at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas from 1993 to 2001 and Friends University in Wichita, Kansas from 2003 to 2016.

Playing career Lewis played college football at Southwestern College, where he was an National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NA) All-American in 1983 and 1984. He played for head coaches Dennis Franchione and Charlie Cowdrey and participated in Southwestern's the 1982 Sunflower Bowl victory.

Coaching career Lewis was the head football coach at the Southwestern College and led the team to a record of 60–32 during his tenure, including a 1996 Wheat Bowl victory against , to become the all-time winningest coach in school history. After the 1997 regular season, his team played in the NAIA Football National Championship playoffs, losing 53–28 to . In 1998, his Southwestern team advanced to the second round of the NAIA playoffs, defeating the , 12–10, in the first round and losing 52–6 to . In the 1999 NAIA playoffs, the team lost in the first round to by a score of 44–10.

In 2008, Lewis won his 100th game as a head coach at the college level. Lewis was abruptly fired from Friends in March 2017. For the 2017 season, he took a job coaching quarterbacks at Maize South High School, remaining in Wichita while his son played his senior season at Friends.

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