Lyon College head football coach Casey Creehan has announced the addition of Kris Sweet as the Scots' new offensive coordinator in the spring of 2019.
Sweet joins Scots with an extensive background coaching at both the collegiate and professional levels. Sweet spent this past fall as the offensive line coach at NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) member Norfolk State.
Prior to his stop at Norfolk State, Sweet spent 10 seasons as an offensive line coach in the Canadian Football League (CFL). Sweet served as the offensive line coach for three seasons (2014-16) with the Montreal Alouettes. In 2014, Jeff Perrett, an offensive lineman for Montreal, was named the winner of the Leo Dandurand Trophy, which is given to the top offensive lineman in the CFL's East Division. The following year in 2015, Montreal finished tied for the fewest sacks allowed in the CFL and ended the year second in the league in rushing.
Sweet also coached one season with the Edmonton Eskimos (2013) and the Saskatchewan Roughriders (2012). He spent his first five seasons in the CFL with the Calgary Stampeders (2007-11). While at Calgary, the Stampeders won a Grey Cup (2008), had a two-time CFL leading rusher (Joffrey Reynolds, 2007-08) and a CFL Most Outstanding Lineman recipient (Ben Archibald, 2010).
Before his time in the CFL, Sweet got his coaching career started at the collegiate level. Sweet landed his first job as an offensive graduate assistant at Tennessee Tech in 1997 before moving on to coach one season at Holy Cross and Elon University.
Following his stint at Elon in 1999, Sweet spent five seasons (2000-04) at Presbyterian College. Sweet started as the tight ends/fullbacks coach at Presbyterian College before taking on the role of offensive line coach in 2001. Sweet continued to move up the ranks at Presbyterian College as he was named offensive coordinator in 2003 and later expanded his role to include serving as the team's recruiting coordinator and academic coordinator.
Sweet also served as offensive line coach at Kentucky State University (2005) and Columbia University (2006) before moving on to the CFL.
