The future of Dodge City Community College football is starting to take shape as new Head Coach, Ryan Lusby has put together his coaching staff ahead of getting things started for the 2024 season. 

Coach Lusby retains three coaches from the 2023 coaching staff and brings in a pair of new faces to the Conquistadors' sidelines. The trio of Anathan Gibson, Steven Johnson Jr., and Rico McCoy are back with the Conqs while Tommy Feazell and Shane Dowty make their way to Dodge City to join the Conq coaching staff. 

Gibson and Johnson return in their same roles on staff after helping the Conqs go 8-3 last year and win the Wool Bowl finishing the season ranked #6 in the final NJCAA rankings. Gibson will continue to coach the defensive line and be in his seventh year overall on staff at Dodge City, while Johnson will continue to coach the linebackers and work with special teams as he heads into his second season with the Conqs. 

McCoy joined the coaching staff last year working with defensive backs and helping the team to a successful season and comes back to Dodge City after departing last season and will assume the role of Defensive Coordinator. McCoy came to Dodge City last year from Aurora, Colorado where he was the head coach at Gateway High School and served as Athletic Director at Montview Middle School. He also worked as a linebacker coach and special team coordinator at Allen University in South Carolina, while coaching at multiple other high schools. He attended the University of Tennessee where he recorded 350 tackles for the Volunteers a number that ranks Top 10 in school history. He earned All-SEC honors at Tennessee and played professionally spending time with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2010 and then playing in the Canadian Football League. 

"I'm thrilled about the opportunity Coach Lusby and DC3 have given me. It's a privilege and an honor to rejoin the DC3 football program in the role of defensive coordinator. Excited for the opportunity to chase greatness with an outstanding coaching staff and talented group of student-athletes," said McCoy. 

Feazell and Dowty make their way to Dodge City after working for Coahoma Community College and Western Illinois University last year. 

Working in junior college last year Feazell comes to Dodge City after two seasons at Coahoma Community College where he was most recently the Co-Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks/Runningbacks coach and served as Wide Receivers coach previously. In his two seasons at Coahoma, the team led the MACCC in pass yards per completion, while he coached multiple All-MACCC honorees. In 2021 Feazell coached with Coach Lusby at the University of Arkansas Monticello working as the Wide Receivers coach; coaching an all-conference honoree that was Top 10 in the Great American Conference in receiving yards. From 2018 to the spring of 2021, he was the Wide Receivers coach at McPherson College (NAIA) where he coached multiple receivers to All-conference honors in the KCAC and in his first season had a pair of receivers ranked in the Top 25 in receptions per game in NAIA. At McPherson, he coached an NFL player for the Washington Commanders, Ben Nikkel at wide receiver. He got his coaching start at Eastern Kentucky University where he was an offensive quality control coach and helped the team lead the Ohio Valley Conference in 2017 in passing offense. 

"I'm excited to continue to help the student-athletes at DC3 achieve their goals on and off the field. I look forward to working with Coach Lusby and the staff in building this team into one that the community can be proud of. Helping the players achieve academic and athletic success is my number one goal," said Feazell.

Dowty spent the 2023 season serving as the defensive backs coach at Western Illinois University, while in 2022 he worked with the offensive line as a quality control coach at Arkansas State University. From 2019-21 Dowty was on staff at Missouri S&T where he started as linebacker coach and defensive coordinator before transitioning to passing game coordinator and quarterback coach. He also was on staff at Missouri S&T from 2016-17 and during his time with the Miners his units he coached ranked in the Top 25 of NCAA Division II in several stat categories. During the 2018 season between his two stops at Missouri S&T, he was the defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach at MidAmerican Nazarene University. He would work at Iowa State University as a graduate assistant coach, while also working at the College of Desert, St. Ambrose University, and the University of Iowa. The Muscatine, Iowa native's coaching career started in 2008 as an assistant coach at Iowa City West High School. 

"I'm incredibly excited to join Coach Lusby on his inaugural staff at Dodge City Community College. This isn't just any job; DC3 is a place with tremendous support and resources, ready to compete in the tough Jayhawk Conference, where the very best teams in the country play. Coaching at the community college level has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. The years I coached at the two-year level were particularly memorable, as I've seen players show incredible determination. These student-athletes excelled in the classroom and on the field while ultimately accomplishing their dreams of earning a scholarship to a four-year institution. Dodge City is similar in size to the community I grew up in. I understand and appreciate the values that makeup such a community," said Dowty. 

The Conqs are eager to get summer camp underway and prepare for fall camp and the 2024 season which will kick-off on Thursday, August 29th at 7:00 pm at home against Tyler Junior College.