Kelly Cummings joined the Tigers' coaching staff in 2000 and has led the unit to the top spot statistically in the North Coast Athletic Conference in three of his five years at Wittenberg. Dozens of Wittenberg student-athletes have garnered all-conference honors under his direction as the Tigers have won more than 75 percent of their games.

Cummings began his collegiate career at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M, before transferring to Eastern Kentucky University, from which he received a bachelor's degree in history in 1993. He followed his collegiate career with a free-agent tryout for the NFL.

After four seasons at Denison, where Cummings served as linebacker coach for one year and defensive coordinator from 1997-99, Cummings stayed in the NCAC and helped the Tigers to back-to-back conference titles in 2000 and 2001. Before working with the Big Red, Cummings was an assistant coach at Madison Central High School in Richmond, Ky.

Cummings and his wife, Kate, who is the head women's basketball coach at Ohio Dominican University, reside in Hilliard, Ohio, with their daughters, Allyson and Bailey.