Missouri Western State University Athletics

Tyler Fenwick is in his third season as the head coach of Missouri Western football in 2025. He's gone 12-11 overall through his first two seasons, and holds a 65-59 career record in his now 12th season as an NCAA Division II head coach.

Fenwick’s 2024 squad ranked No. 1 in the MIAA and No. 13 in the nation in kickoff return yards (842) and No. 2 in the conference in tackles for loss (75). The Griffons also ranked No. 1 in the MIAA and No. 3 in the country in fewest number of opponent sacks allowed (16). Twelve players from the 2024 team earned all-MIAA recognition.

In his first season back with MoWest in 2023, the Griffons made significant progress with a record of 8-4 (7-3 in MIAA), tying for third in the MIAA and earning a Farmer’s Bank and Trust Live United Bowl appearance.

The 2023 team ranked third in the MIAA in scoring, averaging 37.4 points per game. They led the MIAA in rushing with an average of 200.2 yards per game, while also adding 218.2 passing yards per game. 

During Fenwick’s previous stint at Missouri Western as offensive coordinator from 2007-2012, he helped lead the Griffons to the postseason in each of the six seasons he was on staff, including an appearance in the NCAA Division II quarterfinals in 2012. The Griffons were outright MIAA champions that same year.

In summary, when Fenwick was the OC at MWSU, the Griffons averaged 35.1 points per game and went a combined 53-18 over those six seasons.

Before returning to MWSU, Fenwick spent the previous three seasons as head coach at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, taking a team that posted a 1-10 record in his first season (2019) to a 9-3 mark in his second season (2021) – the biggest turnaround in NCAA Division II. Southeastern had a pair of postseason appearances in Fenwick’s tenure, appearing twice in the Live United Bowl against Emporia State.

The 2021 Great American Conference Coach of the Year, Fenwick mentored 28 all-GAC selections, including GAC Defensive Player of the Year and all-America selection Maalik Hall. Prior to Southeastern, Fenwick took his first head coaching job at Missouri S&T where he posted a 37-29 record overall from 2013-2018, including a 10-2 mark in 2018. The 2018 season included winning Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Coach of the Year honors as well as being named the Don Hansen Super Region 3 Coach of the Year.
 
That 2018 season ended on a six-game winning streak and a 10-2 record, including a 51-16 victory over Minnesota State-Moorhead in the Mineral Water Bowl. That win was the first postseason victory for Missouri S&T since 1950 and is just the second postseason win in their history.

What’s more, S&T’s 10-2 record in 2018 was the best among all 21 college football teams in the state of Missouri that year.
 
Fenwick left S&T ranking third in career victories after seeing his program tie or break 26 individual or team records over six seasons. A total of 79 Miners earned All-GLVC recognition during Fenwick’s tenure, including 31 first team selections. Six of them would go on to earn All-American honors across various organizations, while in the classroom his student-athletes have added six College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America awards over the same span.
  
Before joining Jerry Partridge at Missouri Western in 2007, Fenwick spent the 2006 season as the offensive coordinator at Minnesota State-Moorhead, where he guided an offensive unit that improved its yardage totals by 65 percent from the previous year, as the Dragons won four of their last five games to finish with a 6-5 record.
 
Prior to that, Fenwick spent five years on the staff at Occidental College in California – the last four as offensive coordinator.
 
At Occidental, he was the wide receivers coach during the 2001 season as the Tigers went 8-1 and won the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) championship, then moved into the offensive coordinator role the following season.  Over the four years guiding the offense, Occidental had a 33-9 record, won two SCIAC titles and made two appearances in the NCAA Division III playoffs, winning twice in the 2004 tournament.  During those five years, Fenwick coached four all-conference quarterbacks and twice had the conference’s Offensive Player of the Year.
 
Fenwick began his coaching career at the high school level at Birmingham High School in Lake Balboa, California as the program’s offensive coordinator, guiding the team to a conference championship and playoff appearance with a 10-2 record.
 
Originally from Los Angeles, CA, Fenwick graduated from Chaminade College Preparatory High School. He attended Los Angeles Valley College and the University of New Mexico, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in university studies in 1999. A two-year letterman for the Lobos as a wide receiver, he caught 14 passes during the two years he played at UNM.
 
Fenwick and his wife, Angela, have three children  - daughter Kyleigha and sons Kayden and Kiptyn. His father, Jim, was a highly successful coach at the junior college and four-year levels in California, and has been inducted into three different Halls of Fame.
 
He departed the Miners program third in career victories after seeing his program tie or break 26 individual or team records over six seasons. A total of 79 Miners earned All-GLVC recognition during Fenwick's tenure, including 31 first team selections. Six of them would go on to earn All-American honors across various organizations, while in the classroom his student-athletes have added six College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America awards over the same span.
  
Fenwick spent the 2006 season as the offensive coordinator at Minnesota State-Moorhead where he guided an offensive unit that improved its yardage totals by 65 percent from the previous year, as the Dragons won four of their last five games to finish with a 6-5 record.
 
Prior to that, he spent five years on the staff at Occidental College in California – the last four as offensive coordinator.
 
At Occidental, he was the wide receivers coach during the 2001 season as the Tigers went 8-1 and won the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) championship, then moved into the offensive coordinator role the following season.  Over the four years guiding the offense, Occidental had a 33-9 record, won two SCIAC titles and made two appearances in the NCAA Division III playoffs, winning twice in the 2004 tournament.  During those five years, he coached four all-conference quarterbacks and twice had the conference's Offensive Player of the Year.
 
He began his coaching career at the high school level at Birmingham High School in Lake Balboa, Calif., as the program's offensive coordinator, helping guide the team to a conference championship and playoff appearance as it finished with a 10-2 record.
 
Fenwick is originally from Los Angeles, Calif., and graduated from Chaminade College Preparatory High School.  He attended Los Angeles Valley College and the University of New Mexico, where he earned his bachelor's degree in university studies in 1999. A two-year letterman for the Lobos as a wide receiver, he caught 14 passes during the two years in which he played at UNM.
 
Fenwick and his wife, Angela, have three children, daughter Kyleigha and sons Kayden and Kiptyn.His father, Jim, was a highly successful coach at the junior college and four-year levels in California and has been inducted into three separate Halls of Fame.