Eastern Michigan assistant soccer coach Fred Reed, who expended seven seasons as the Eagles’ pass-recreation coordinator and safeties mentor and also beforehand coached with the Lions, died Sunday. He was 54.
A lead to of demise was not right away announced by the college. A school spokesman was approved by the family members to simply call it a “medical unexpected emergency.”
Reed coached soccer for 27 several years, such as 25 seasons in college or university.
“We are devastated to study of Mentor Reed’s passing,” Jap Michigan athletic director Scott Wetherbee explained in a statement. “Fred was the top product of a husband, father, buddy, and mentor. Our hearts go out to his wife, La’Shannon, his young children, Amar’e and Khamara, and any individual who was blessed more than enough to have recognized him. He will be dearly skipped.”
Said head soccer coach Chris Creighton: “Please preserve Mentor Reed’s family in your ideas and prayers all through this unbelievably difficult time. It is extremely hard to capture what he means to all of us proper now.”
Jap Michigan reported grief counselors would be created out there for scholar-athletes, coaches and personnel, who were being stunned and saddened Sunday.
As significantly as a soccer mentor could be, Reed was universally properly-favored.
“Challenged each and every athlete in our method to be superior players but much more importantly much better males. I’ll cherish the our conversations conversing schemes and sharing life experiences,” senior linebacker Tariq Speights wrote on Twitter. “Adore you Mentor. So blessed I got to enjoy for this sort of a great gentleman like you.”
Reed’s son, Amar’e, is an Eastern Michigan motivation. He’s a linebacker at Canton, and posted on Twitter, “We misplaced a excellent dad, mentor and all about person now. You ended up what pushed me and constantly will be.”
Reed joined Creighton’s staff at Eastern Michigan in 2016, just after three yrs at Syracuse. He at first coached cornerbacks, and switched to safeties in 2020.
His initial yr on the occupation, Jap Michigan permitted 86.5 yards for every recreation less than the earlier season. In 2017, EMU permitted 3.8 factors for every video game around the ultimate 15 minutes, and in no way authorized a fourth-quarter place at house. In 2018, EMU experienced the finest protection in the Mid-American Conference. This past time, EMU forced 18 turnovers. Reed served EMU to 4 bowl games.
In university, Reed also coached at Syracuse, Ohio (2 times), Buffalo, Nebraska-Omaha, Michigan Tech, South Dakota and Minnesota Morris. He commenced his coaching occupation in 1996, following graduating from Colorado Mesa College in 1994. He had bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
The only time he left the faculty coaching ranks, Reed was on Rod Marinelli’s personnel with the Lions in 2006 and 2007, as a defensive assistant, coaching safeties these as Kenoy Kennedy, Terrence Holt, Daniel Bullocks and Gerald Alexander.
Funeral company details was not quickly available Sunday night.
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