Caleb Padilla

Defensive Coordinator/Safeties

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Information: Caleb Padilla is in his second season on the Albion College coaching staff. He will serve as the defensive coordinator and oversee the safeties in 2011.

Padilla's unit led the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association in rushing defense in 2011 (allowing 90 fewer yards a game than it did the previous season), and it yielded a league-best 15 points per game in the six league contests. The Britons were near the top of the league in sacks and total defense.

Padilla broke into the collegiate coaching ranks in 2008 as the mentor for the outside linebackers at the Colorado School of Mines. Two starters achieved all-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference in 2009.

Prior to his arrival at Mines, Padilla spent two seasons as the varsity defensive backs coach and junior varsity defensive coordinator at Rangeview High School in Aurora. During his time at Rangeview, Padilla coached a pair of unanimous First Team All-Continental League safeties.

Padilla was a defensive back on four Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference championship teams at Winona State University.

In addition to helping Winona State gain conference championships, the Warriors qualified for the NCAA Division II playoffs three times and went undefeated at home in conference play during all five seasons of Padilla's collegiate playing career. In 2003, Padilla helped guide the Warriors to their first-ever playoff victory.

A 2001 graduate of West Liberty High School in West Liberty, Iowa, Padilla earned all-State, all-Area Iowa City and all-District honors in football during his prep career.

Padilla and his wife, Kristin, reside in Albion.