EASTON, Pa. – Kort Shankweiler, who has experience coaching at four FBS schools, will handle the quarterback coaching duties for the Leopards for the 2019 Lafayette football season.
 
Shankweiler's last coaching stop was in the 2017 season as the offensive quality control and assistant quarterbacks coach at Tennessee under Butch Jones.
 
That followed a four-year stint at Florida International in Miami. Shankweiler worked as the Panthers quarterbacks and wide receivers coach from 2015-16 and was the tight ends mentor from 2013-14.
 
As the QB coach, Shankweiler oversaw the development of Alex McGough who set FIU career records for touchdown passes (48) and single-season records for attempts (420), completions (269), yardage (2,722) and touchdowns (21) in 2015. With the tight ends, Jonnu Smith led the Panthers in receiving yardage and receptions for two seasons and established single-game and single-season touchdown reception records. Smith was a John Mackey Award Watch List selection and All-C-USA honoree who managed 61 catches for 710 yards and eight touchdowns to lead all tight ends nationally.
 
"We are thrilled to add Kort Shankweiler to our staff as the quarterbacks coach. Kort comes from a football family and brings FBS coaching and playing experience," said John Garrett, the Fred M. Kirby '42 Head Football Coach. "Kort is smart, detailed and loves football. We welcome him and his wife Aubrey to our Lafayette football family."
 
Prior to FIU, Shankweiler spent three seasons as the running backs coach and recruiting coordinator at Central Michigan, helping guide the Chippewas to a Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl title in 2012.
 
Shankweiler arrived at Central Michigan after two seasons as a graduate assistant at Michigan State (2008-09). He worked with the offensive line under head coach Mark Dantonio, earning the Spartans trips to the Capital One Bowl (2009) and Alamo Bowl (2010). In 2009, Michigan State finished first in the Big Ten in fewest sacks allowed and passing efficiency.
 
His coaching career started at the Coast Guard Academy in 2007, a year after he graduated from East Carolina with bachelor of arts degrees in History and Multidisciplinary Studies: The Classics. A versatile player, Shankweiler was a four-year letterwinner at ECU under Skip Holtz, playing quarterback, fullback and tight end while helping lead East Carolina to the 2006 PapaJohns.com Bowl.
 
Shankweiler's father, Steve, has coached collegiately for more than 40 years and is currently in his fourth coaching stint at East Carolina after returning to coach the offensive line.