Tony Case, Graduate Assistant
This is Case’s second year as a graduate assistant with the Eagles. He helps coach the offensive line and the long snappers.

A native of Colorado Springs, Case was a rare four-year letterwinner and a three-year starter in the lines at Doherty High School. He earned all-conference, all-area and all-region football honors as a senior.

He attended Adams State College, where he was a three-year starter on the offensive line and also saw some duty on the goal line defense. He earned second-team all-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference honors at offensive guard as a senior in 2003.

He also excelled as a long-snapper for the Grizzlies. After concluding his collegiate eligibility, Case signed a free agent contract with the Buffalo Bills and was in their training camp much of the summer of 2005. While he did not make the NFL, he appreciates the opportunity he was given.

This spring and summer, Case played center for the Rapid City Flying Aces of the National Indoor Football League.

Jeff Larson, Graduate Assistant
One of the newest members of the Chadron State coaching staff is Jeff Larson. He is working with the outside linebackers.

Larson’s hometown is Aberdeen, S.D., where he was an all-conference and all-state defensive lineman at Aberdeen Central High School as a senior in 1994.

He earned two letters as a linebacker at Northern State University, but five knee surgeries finally ended his career. He graduated in 2001.

The following year he was the linebackers coach at Layton High School in Utah. The past four years he has been at East High School in Cheyenne, where he was the defensive coordinator the past three seasons. Two of those teams won the conference championship and last year’s team went 8-3 and reached the Class 5A state championship game.

Larson’s wife, Staci, is from Lemmon, S.D., and also graduated from Northern State. She is a reading coach in the Chadron Elementary Schools.

Mike Spargo, Graduate Assistant
Spargo joined CSC coaching staff this fall and will work with the receivers after having an outstanding career as the quarterback at Dickinson State in North Dakota.

Spargo is a native of Ventura, Calif., where he was an all-county selection as the quarterback for the football team and a guard on the basketball team at St. Bonaventure High School. He also was a 6-6 high jumper.

He initially attended Moorpark College in his home state and high jumped 6-10. He then transferred to Dickinson State, where he was the starting quarterback three years. He had a particularly outstanding season as a junior in 2004, when he completed 106 of 206 passes for 1,720 yards and 17 touchdowns. Just four of his passes were intercepted that season and he ranked fourth nationally in NAIA in passing efficiency.

Spargo graduated from Dickinson State in December. He was married in June to the former Megan Capron, a native of Powell, Wyo., and the holder of Dickinson State’s 400-meter record.

Jamie Waldo, Volunteer Assistant
Waldo was hired as a business and marketing professor at Chadron State a year ago and immediately volunteered to help coach the football team. Prior to coming to Chadron State, he was deputy commissioner of an amateur football league in Washington.

He primarily works with the punters and placekickers for the Eagles.

A native of Spokane, Wash., Waldo earned his bachelor’s degree from Eastern Washington University at Cheney. He earned a law degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center at Concord, N.H., and also holds a master’s degree from that institution.

Waldo taught law, marketing and ethics courses at the Webster University campus in Spokane three years and was the department chairman two years before coming to CSC. He is the sponsor of Phi Beta Lambda Business Fraternity on campus.

Waldo and his wife Leala were high school sweethearts. They have a 3-year-old son, Darius, and a daughter, Mina, born June 6, 2006.

Craig Jersild, Assistant Coach
After a 12-year absence, Craig Jersild has returned to the Chadron State coaching staff as a volunteer assistant this fall. From 1992 through ’95, Jersild coached the Eagles’ secondary. He then spent a year as an assistant coach at South Dakota Tech in Rapid City, two years as the defensive coordinator at Butler County Community College at El Dorado, Kan., three years as defensive coordinator at Northwest Mississippi College at Senatobia and four years, including the last three as head coach, at Hutchinson Community College in Kansas.
The Butler County team in 1998 was the National Junior College champions, Northwest Mississippi had a 33-3 record during his tenure there and Hutchinson advanced to the playoffs the first two years he was the head coach.
“Jersey” was born in Texas, but graduated from Monte Vista High School in Alamo, Calif., where he was an all-conference player. He was a starting defensive back at Colorado State University, culminating in 1990, when the Rams were 9-4 and played in the Freedom Bowl.
Jersild is married to the former Sandy Scherbarth, a Chadron-area native and a registered nurse at the Chadron Community Hospital. They have four children—Jessica, Lane and twins Beau and Drew—and live in the Deadhorse area southwest of Chadron.

Ben Martin, Graduate Assistant
Ben Martin enrolled at Chadron State to work on his master’s degree in January and is helping coach the linebackers this fall. He has a Chadron State heritage. Both his parents, Russ and Linda, are CSC graduates. His father was an excellent linebacker for the Eagles in the mid-1970s and is now the offensive coordinator at the University of Nebraska-Kearney.
Martin graduated from Cape Girardeau, Mo., High School in 2001 while his father was on the coaching staff at Southeast Missouri State University. He was a two-year starter at center and linebacker in high school. A knee injury forced him to forego playing college football, but he was a student coach all four years he attended Southeast Missouri. He graduated with honors in 2005 with a degree in elementary education.
Last fall, Martin was a graduate assistant on the football staff at North Dakota State University when the Bison went 10-1 and were ranked No. 3 in the final NCAA 1-AA poll.
He switched to Chadron State because he felt he would get more coaching experience on a smaller staff.

Jason Harlan, Graduate Assistant
Jason Harlan joined the Chadron State coaching staff early this summer after coaching the defensive line at Montana State University-Northern the past two years. During that time, two linemen he coached earned NAIA All-American honors.
Originally from Salisbury, Mo., he was a four-year starter and three-year all-conference lineman in high school. The Panthers were the Missouri Class 2A state champions his sophomore year.
Harlan then earned three letters in football at Central Missouri University at Fayette, where he played in the offensive line and was a long-snapper. He graduated from there in May 2005 with a degree in physical education. He is assisting Todd Auer as a defensive line coach at Chadron State.

Andrew McGlenn, Graduate Assistant
The newest member of the Chadron State coaching staff is Andrew McGlenn, who is helping Coach O’Boyle with the offensive line. He was a three-year starter in the line on both offense and defense while attending high school in Edgerton, Wis. He was a second-team all-conference selection as a junior and a first-team choice as a senior.
McGlenn then was four-year starter at right offensive tackle at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, and earned all-conference honors as both a junior and a senior. He graduated from LaCrosse in December 2005.
This past year, he taught and helped coach football, powerlifting and track and field at Arrowhead High School at Hartland, Wis.