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SWABA
GREENVILLE, N.C. – Louis Swaba, a former lineman at South Caldwell High now coaching college football, has a new position.
Swaba, who turns 30 next month, is leaving Wingate University to join the coaching staff of East Carolina’s Scottie Montgomery, a former football star at Burns and in college at Duke.
Swaba will focus on quality control for offensive linemen with the Pirates. He spent last season at Wingate coaching tight ends and fullbacks, and his college coaching career includes stints at Charlotte and Limestone.
His first college coaching position, in 2012, was working with special teams at Wingate. He came there after working as an assistant the season before that at Porter Ridge High.
Swaba played college football first at Greensboro College, where he was an offensive line starter. He also played two seasons at Appalachian State on the 2009 (11-3) and 2010 (10-3) teams.
Swaba played varsity football at South Caldwell in 2004 and 2005, catching six passes as a tight end on Butch Carter-coached teams that went 8-5 and 11-3. Both of those teams made the state playoffs, starting a stretch of five straight postseason bids for the Spartans, who last season missed the state playoffs for only the second time in 12 years.
East Carolina — 3-9 last season with wins over Western Carolina, N.C. State and Connecticut — opens its season on Sept. 2 with a home game against James Madison.