Shawn Mennenga

Shawn Mennenga (born January 8, 1971) is an American football coach. He was the special teams coordinator for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League from 2019 to 2020. since 2019. After beginning his NFL coaching career with the Cleveland Browns in 2011 under Pat Shurmur after years of college coaching experience. During 2018 Shawn became the special teams coordinator for Vanderbilt before ultimately returning to the NFL.

Playing career Mennenga lettered one season as a defensive back at the University of Missouri in 1992.

Coaching career College coaching Shawn began coaching in the college ranks Mennenga also coached in the collegiate ranks at Southwest Baptist University, first as a graduate assistant in 1994 and then coaching the team's secondary from 1995 to 1996. This was followed by Shawn coaching the 1997 season as the outside linebackers coach for Western Kentucky University. He followed this by spending 3 years as the defensive coordinator at Hutchinson Community College in Kansas. He followed this by becoming the defensive coordinator at Culver-Stockton College for the 2001 season. Following the season he received a promotion to become the head coach of the team a position he would hold until 2004. After his head coaching sting Shawn would spend four years at Fort Hays State University as the team's defensive coordinator. Mennenga spent the 2009–2010 seasons as the linebackers coach at South Dakota State, he helped the defensive improve and lead the team to their first-ever appearance in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.

Head coaching record

Family Mennenga and his wife, Christie, have a son, Garrett, and a daughter, Ashley.