Wofford head football coach Mike Ayers has named Ron Antoine as the Terriers’ running backs coach. Antoine replaces Freddie Brown who resigned last month to become the head football coach at Woodruff High School.

Antoine joins the Terrier program after spending the 2005 season coaching the wide receivers at Elon University. He has also coached at Ohio University and Fayetteville State.

A former wide receiver at Colorado State, Antoine was recruited by Earle Bruce and played his four years under the direction of Sonny Lubick. The wide receiver coach at CSU during Antoine’s tenure was Urban Meyer, currently the head coach at the University of Florida.

While with the Rams, Antoine earned honorable mention All-Western Athletic Conference honors and was CSU’s Receiver of the Year in 1996. He helped Colorado State win two WAC championships and advance to the Holiday Bowl in both 1994 and ‘95. Antoine also received the Rams’ Ironman Award for not missing a single practice or game. A dean’s list student, Antoine graduated from CSU in 1997 with a bachelor of science degree in exercise and sport science. He earned a master’s degree in higher education (educational administration).

A native of Beaumont, Texas, Antoine was a wide receiver at Westbrook Senior High School where he was named to the Super Goal Team and earned second team all-district honors.

Following his graduation from CSU, Antoine remained in Fort Collins as a student assistant coach in 1997 before becoming a graduate assistant coach at Ohio in 1998 and '99. He became the wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator at Fayetteville State for two seasons before returning to Ohio for a four-year stint as the wide receivers coach and academic coordinator from 2001-04.

Last year, Antoine mentored Michael Mayers, Elon’s top wide receiver, who led the Southern Conference in receiving yards per game and was second in the conference in receptions per game. At FSU, Antoine helped wide receiver Andregus Holmes earn second team All-CIAA honors in 1999. At Ohio, he supervised wide receiver Scott Mayle who led the Bobcats in all-purpose yards in 2003 and ‘04.

Antoine is married to Zenarae Antoine, an assistant women’s basketball coach at the University of Louisville. Zenarae played her college basketball at Colorado State and has served as an assistant coach at Ohio University and the College of Charleston.