Matt Wade

Matt Wade

The Wade File
  • Hometown: Concord, Calif.
  • Family: Wife: Natalie; Children: Johana and Bennett
  • Education: Bachelor's, St. Mary's University; Master's, Chapman University 
In 2019, Matt Wade begins his seventh season with the Boxer football program. Wade serves as the offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach and recruiting coordinator.
 
Over the course of the last four seasons, Boxer quarterbacks have thrown for over 7,000 yards and 74 touchdowns. Wade was instrumental in the efforts that earned J.T. Greenough honorable mention all-Northwest Conference honors in 2017 and in 2018. Greenough became the starter, following the graduation of Campbell Summerfield, who in 2016 as the starter, set new Pacific single-season records for passing yards (2,621) and touchdowns (23). 

In 2015, under his tutelage, quarterback Warner Shaw was named second team All-Northwest Conference. He broke Pacific's single-season mark for touchdown passes thrown (23) and left the program at it's all-time leader in completion percentage (.669). In 2015, he completed 187 of 284 passes for 2,3965 yards with only six interceptions.

As the Boxers' recruiting coordinator, he has been instrumental in the efforts to land players to Pacific that have made an immediate impact. Wade has also organized numerous recruiting days to bring prospective players to campus.

Wade came to Pacific in 2013 as the co-offensive coordinator and then took on the role full-time in 2015. He continues a matriculation of coaches to Pacific from UC Davis under Keith Buckley.  Wade spent seven seasons at UC Davis, including four years as the Aggies’ tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator.  In that role, he assisted in planning the pass and run game operations and also was the lead coach for the punt return team.  Wade was responsible for coordinating all aspects of the Aggies’ recruiting efforts and actively recruited the San Francisco Bay Area.
 
Prior to his work with the tight ends, Wade spent the 2009 and 2010 campaigns as the team’s wide receivers coach.  In those two seasons, the Aggies were ranked among the top-40 teams in Division I FCS in passing yards.  Wade was tight ends coach in 2007 and 2008 and began his career in 2006 as a defensive assistant coach.
 
Prior to UC Davis, Wade as an assistant coach at Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord, Calif., where he coached the defensive back, receivers and quarterback.  In 2005, Wade was the program’s co-offensive coordinator.
 
Wade played one year of college football at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif.  He prepped at career at Ygnacio Valley High School.  A native of Concord, Wade graduated from Saint Mary’s in 2003 with a degree in business and a minor in economics.  He earned his master’s degree in education and California teaching credential from Chapman University in 2007. 

He and his wife, Natalie, were married in June 2008. They have two children, a daughter, Johana and a son, Bennett.