Shiel Wood
Wide Receivers
Phone: 4148
Email:
Woodds2@wofford.edu
Shiel Wood begins his fourth season on the Wofford coaching staff. He will work with the wide receivers, a position he starred at for the Terriers from 2001-05. In addition he will coordinate the special teams unit. As a recruiter, Wood will concentrate on East Tennessee and Chattanooga, northwest Georgia and part of South Carolina.
Last year, Brenton Bersin averaged 23.7 yards per catch and was twelfth in the Southern Conference in receiving yards per game. During Wood’s second season on the sidelines, Andy Strickland earned All-Southern Conference honors as he posted 656 yards receiving with seven touchdowns. His 19.3 average per catch led the conference and his 54.7 yards per game ranked fifth. Strickland also had the first 100+ yard receiving game for the Terriers since 2005.
In his first season working with the wide receivers, junior Andy Strickland was tenth in the conference with 46.1 receiving yards per game and ninth with 599 total receiving yards. His 599 yards were the most by a Terrier receiver in a season since Steve Mabrey had 712 in 1986.
Wood was a two-year starter at wide receiver and was the leading receiver on Wofford’s 2003 squad that won the Southern Conference Championship and advanced to the national semifinals of the Football Championship Subdivision. Wood had four receptions for 51 yards in a win over Georgia Southern in 2003 and made five receptions in three postseason playoff games. His 23 receptions on the year were the most on the team. Wood finished his career with 42 receptions for 609 yards. He was named the team’s Most Outstanding Receiver as a sophomore in 2002.
A graduate of Spartanburg High, Wood was an all-area and all-academic selection while catching 46 passes for 538 yards and five touchdowns as a senior. He also lettered in track and basketball.
David Shiel Wood was born August 26, 1982. He graduated from Wofford in 2006 with a degree in government. He spent the 2006 season as an assistant coach at Woodruff High School and helped the Wolverines to the Region II-AA championship and a berth in the state playoffs with a 9-3 record. Wood has served as camp director for the Mike Ayers Football Camps the past three years.
Wood and his wife, Bernie, were married in June of 2010. Bernie is a former soccer player at Wofford and is currently attending the Medical College of Georgia.
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