Kyle Supianoski enters his seventh season as a member of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater football coaching staff in 2016. He will work with the defensive tackles for the second straight year.
In 2015, Supianoski helped coach a stout front line, which limited opponents to a Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference-leading 112.9 rushing yards per game. Defensive tackles Zach Franz and Brandon Tamsett were named All-WIAC following the season.
Supianoski finished one year as running backs coach in 2014 after serving as a student assistant coach (2010) and working with the linebackers as a graduate assistant (2011-13).
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As running backs coach, Supianoski assisted in all aspects of offensive game planning, produce weekly self-scouting reports and prepare the running backs through meetings, practice and game planning. In 2014, four of the Warhawks' running backs compiled more than 400 yards rushing, including second team All-WIAC honoree Jordan Ratliffe and 1,000-yard rusher Dennis Moore. UW-Whitewater led the conference with 218.2 rushing yards per game and running backs compiled 29 rushing touchdowns.
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Under Supianoski’s tutelage in 2013, the linebacker corps helped the Warhawks finish 15-0, post their eighth Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title in nine seasons and win the program’s fifth Stagg Bowl national championship game in seven years. Four of the team’s linebackers, including D3football.com National Defensive Player of the Year and WIAC Player of the Year Cole Klotz, earned first or second team All-WIAC accolades. The team’s top four tacklers were linebackers.
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As a coach and a student-athlete, Supianoski has been a part of five of the program’s six NCAA Division III titles. The former linebacker earned second team D3football.com All-America, first team all-region and first team all-conference honors in 2009, when UW-Whitewater won its second national championship. Supianoski led the team in tackles in each of his two seasons as a starter.
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A Tama, Iowa, native, Supianoski graduated from UW-Whitewater in 2011 with a bachelor’s in physical education (health and human performance). He earned his master’s in education in 2014.
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Supianoski has been a member of the American Football Coaches Association since 2011. He has worked football camps at UW-Whitewater, Iowa State and Truman (Mo.) State.
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Supianoski also currently works as a communication liaison with UW-Whitewater’s Upward Bound program, which facilitates the postsecondary administrative process for high school students in the Milwaukee metropolitan area.