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Hendrick brings more than 30 years of coaching and playing experience to Alabama State. Hendrick will coordinate the Hornets’ special teams units and coach defensive ends.

He has 12 years’  experience coaching special teams on the collegiate and professional level, including stints assisting the special teams coaches of the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers of the National Football League.

The coaching veteran spent the 2011 season as special teams/defensive line coach at Tulane, after spending the 2008-09 seasons at the University of South Florida. During his tenure there, USF posted a pair of bowl victories. In 2009 in his first year as full-time special teams coordinator, the Buls set the Big East Conference record for single season kickoff return yardage. 

Hendrick was the defensive coordinator at South Carolina State (2007), and before that was the head coach at Benedict College (2003-06), where he compiled an 18-24 mark.

Hendrick also served college coaching stints at Mississippi State (1995-02), Temple (1993-94), LSU (1989-90), Texas A&M (1987-88), Pittsburgh (1984-85), Southern (1986-87) and Delaware State (1983).

He was a three-year letterman at defensive line for the University of Pittsburgh
(1979-81), helping the Panthers to a 33-3 mark and consecutive bowl victories.

An ordained minister, Hendrick and his wife, Katherine Steele-Hendrick are the parents of two children Amber, who is a law student at the University of Maryland, and John, who will be a sophomore quarterback at the Naval Academy this fall.