Jemar Lewis

Career Synopsis

  • The 2025 season is Lewis's ninth as a full-time coach
  • After serving as a graduate assistant at Heidelberg from 2011-12, Lewis was an assistant coach at North Carolina Wesleyan
2024
  • Led the receivers to 1,774 yards, averaging 10.82 yards per catch
  • Mentored Solomon Sandoval to All-OAC and All-Regional honors
2023
  • Led the receivers to 1,819 receiving yards, averaging 181.90 YPG
  • Coached Oliver Helleher to All-OAC honors

2022

  • Mentored Dimitri Penick and Branden Reed to All-OAC performances


2021

  • Led the receiving team to a total of 2386 yards, averaging 15.7 and scoring 27 touchdowns
  • Helped Maceo Matthews become the seventh player in school history to win All-OAC First Team honors three times 

2020

  • Coordinated a passing game which averaged 307.2 yards per game (eighth in Div. III)
  • Coached Maceo Matthews Jr. to an All-American selection (D3football.com) and OAC Receiver of the Year accolades
  • Helped Maceo Matthews and Dimitri Penick to All-OAC honors, again

2019

  • Guided his receivers to 2,844 yards on 202 completions and 31 touchdowns
  • Mentored Maceo Matthews and Dimitri Penick to All-OAC honors

2018

  • Was at the helm of a receiving core that hauled in 2,068 receiving yards. 
  • Mentored Maceo Matthews and Braden Jerome to All-OAC selections

2017

  • Led the Student Prince receivers to 3,273 yards and 26 touchdowns
  • Coached Demetrius Magee to All-OAC and All-Region honors for the second straight year
  • Mentored nine Academic All-OAC players

2013-16

  • Served as running backs coach and recruiting coordinator for the Battling Bishops
  • Coached USA South Offensive Player of the Year Jacques Alston in 2014 and Offensive Rookie of the Year Adrian Minondo in 2015

2011-12

  • Worked as graduate assistant at Heidelberg
  • Helped the high-powered HU offense soar to record setting performances
  • Coached three All-OAC performers, including Cartel Brooks

Collegiate Experience

  • 2011 Heidelberg graduate
  • First team All-OAC running back in 2009 and was all-conference in 2008
  • Scored three touchdowns in first game as a Student Prince

Personal

  • Received M.A. in Education from HU in 2015
  • Native of Bedford, Ohio