Summary: About Ryan McCartney – Host of #Swarmfbchat A native of Riverview, Michigan, Coach McCartney has been coaching football since 1995. He began his coaching career at Ypsilanti Willow Run High School before moving on to Melvindale High School where he first became a Defensive Coordinator in 2000. Since then, Coach Mac has been either a Head Coach and/or Defensive Coordinator while making coaching stops in Arizona, New Hampshire, back to Arizona to coach NAIA Arizona Christian University, and finally Seymour, Indiana. Coach Mac is a published author and has spoken at various clinics. He is married to the former Stacey Massey and together they have two sons, Brendan and Colin. He is the nephew of former Colorado head coach Bill McCartney and the stepson of former Michigan head coach Lloyd Carr. Coaching Resume 2015-present: Defensive Coordinator, Seymour HS (IN) 2014: Defensive Line, ACU (NAIA) (AZ) 2012-2014: Head Coach, ConVal HS (NH) 2007-2012: Defensive Coordinator, Willow Canyon HS (AZ) 2004-2006: Head Coach / DC, Westwind Academy (AZ) 1997-2002: Assistant Head Coach / DC, Melvindale HS (MI) 1995: Defensive Backs / Running Backs, Willow Run HS (MI) About #Swarmfbchat With all of the Offensive-themed chats on Twitter, Ryan McCartney (DC – Seymour HS, IN) decided in May of 2016 to join the crowded chat room featuring his #swarmfbchat. He chose Tuesday nights at 9pm EST to run (at that time) the ONLY Defensive-Themed chat to help encourage learning and skill-building while increasing his coaching network. At the time, Coach McCartney had over 300 followers and didn’t know too much about Twitter and its social reaches. As of Janurary 2017 however, Coach now has close to 2,000 followers and averages about 60 coaches each Tuesday night (a bit better than his days getting between 10-19 coaches a night when it started!). The #swarmfbchat specializes in Philosophy, Practice Planning and Skills/Drills specific to all defensive positions. All his chats can be found archived via Partcipate.com, an educational website. With the quick success of his Twitter chats, Coach McCartney has begun a string of Swarmchat Clinics across the country starting in March 2017.
