Yale

Doug Semones, who has been coaching football for 26 years, isYale's defensive ends coach. Semones, a former Arena FootballLeague and Indoor Professional Football League assistant, came tothe Bulldogs in 2009 after spending two years as the defensivecoordinator at Sandpoint High School in Idaho. His college coachingexperience came from three years (1996-98) at the University ofHawaii, where he handled the defensive line, special teams andtight ends. Semones also worked the 1994 and 1995 Hula Bowls(collegiate all-star games). He left the Rainbows to be thedefensive coordinator for the IPFL Hawaii Hammerheads for a seasonbefore serving in the same role with the AFL 2 Hawaii Islanders.Semones was also the head football coach at Kahuku High School inHawaii, where he also coached baseball, wrestling and track. He wasan all-league defensive back at California Lutheran University,where he received his B.A. in 1983. He and his wife, Linda, havetwo children, Jake '14, a member of the Yale football team, andCatherine.