Casey Vance has been the defensive analyst for the Mountaineer football program since 2017.
Vance organizes, implements and maintains all aspects of game analysis for the defensive coaching staff. He analyzes game film and formulates game plans to assist the defensive coaching staff with game preparation.
Prior to that, he served as a graduate assistant coach with the 2016 WVU defense. The unit finished No. 1 in the Big 12 and No. 10 nationally in forced turnovers, No. 1 in Big 12 defensive pass efficiency, No. 2 in scoring defense and No. 3 in rush defense.
He served as a defensive graduate assistant coach at Arizona for the 2013-14 seasons and at Kentucky for 2015. The 2013 Wildcat defense improved national ranking from No. 105 to No. 39 and in 2014, Vance coached Scooby Wright, the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year and the Bednarik, Nagurski and Lombardi Award winner.
Vance was a linebacker at WVU and was part of three Big East Conference championships and five bowl appearances. He was two-time Academic All-Big East and was named to the Hampshire Honor Society. Vance graduated from West Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in history in 2011 and a master’s degree in secondary education in 2013. He and his wife, Keba, live in Morgantown.
