Cam Clark - Senior Analyst/Offense - Football Support Staff

Cam Clark

Title:
Senior Analyst/Offense
Email:
DukeFBRecruiting@duke.edu
Phone:
(919) 684-2635

Cam Clark joined the Duke coaching staff in February 2024 and serves as a senior analyst working primarily with the quarterbacks.

Clark has more than 15 years of coaching experience, including five as a defensive coordinator at the Division I level. During his coaching tenure, he has participated in five bowl games (2011 GoDaddy.com, 2012 GoDaddy.com, 2013 Vizio BCS National Championship, 2014 Outback and 2024 Gator), won the 2013 SEC Championship with Auburn University and helped Arkansas State University claim two Sun Belt Championships (2011 and 2012).

In his first year in Durham, Clark helped quarterback Maalik Murphy to a record-setting season. Murphy completed 254-of-421 (.603) passes for 2,933 yards with 26 touchdowns. Murphy set or matched Blue Devil single-season standards for touchdown passes (26), games with two or more touchdown passes (9), games with three or more touchdown passes (6), touchdown passes of 20+ yards (15), game-winning touchdowns in the fourth quarter or OT in the same season (3), games with 200 or more passing yards (11) and wins by a starting quarterback (9).

Clark came to Durham after a two-year (2022-23) stint as the defensive coordinator and safeties coach at Thomas County Central High School in Thomasville, Ga. While there, Clark helped the Yellow Jackets to a 27-1 overall ledger, including a 15-0 mark and the 6A Georgia state championship his final season. During Thomas County Central’s undefeated state championship run, the Yellow Jackets held opponents to an average of 9.6 points per game and were well above the national average in tackles, sacks, quarterback hurries and interceptions.

Prior to his time in Georgia, Clark served two years (2020-21) as the defensive coordinator and safeties coach at Western Illinois University. While with the Leathernecks, Clark mentored safety Darius Joiner to FCS All-America honors in 2021. Joiner finished sixth in voting for the Stats Perform FCS Buck Buchanan Award, which honors the defensive player of the year in college football’s FCS subdivision, after he led the FCS in tackles (142) and solo tackles (79).

Clark spent three seasons (2017-19) as the co-defensive coordinator working with the safeties (2017) and linebackers (2018 and 2019) at Lamar University. During his time in Beaumont, Texas, Clark helped the Cardinals go from 2-9 his first year to 7-5 his second, including reaching the FCS playoffs for the first time in program history. He helped in the development of linebacker Chaston Brooks, who garnered 2018 Honorable Mention All-Southland Conference honors and concluded his career with 202 tackles, 12.0 tackles for loss, 2.0 sacks, five forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries, six quarterback hurries and 12 pass breakups.

Clark served two years (2015-16) at Faulkner University as the defensive coordinator and safeties coach. During his final season, Clark was also the special teams coordinator. He helped the Eagles rank first nationally in sacks in 2015 and coached eight student-athletes to All-Mid-South Conference honors. Faulkner was also where Clark got his coaching start, serving in a variety of roles from 2008-11.

In 2013 and 2014, Clark was a defensive graduate assistant at Auburn University under head coach Gus Malzahn. He worked with the Tigers’ safeties and nickels as well as the special teams unit. During his time in Auburn, Ala., the Tigers climbed to the top of the SEC, claiming the 2013 SEC Championship and rolling all the way to the 2013 BCS national championship game in the Rose Bowl. The following year, Clark was on staff when the Tigers dropped a nail-biter in overtime to No. 18 Wisconsin, 34-31, in the 2014 Outback Bowl.

Prior to his time in the SEC, Clark worked under head coach Hugh Freeze (2011) and Malzahn (2012) at Arkansas State. He served as a defensive quality control coach for the secondary and special teams his first year before shifting to a defensive graduate assistant for the secondary and special teams in 2012. While in Jonesboro, Ark., Clark helped the Red Wolves to back-to-back Sun Belt Championships and consecutive appearances in the GoDaddy.com Bowl. With a 17-13 victory over No. 25 Kent State in 2012, Arkansas State clinched its first bowl title since 1970 while also claiming its first win over a ranked opponent since joining FBS in 1992.

Clark was a four-year letterwinner (2004-05-06-07) at safety and corner at Harding University, where he won the 2007 Iron Bison of the Year Award. He also lettered four seasons in track & field.

A native of Calhoun, Georgia, Clark graduated with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and social sciences from Harding in 2007. He added a master’s degree in adult education from Auburn in 2014.

Clark and his wife, Dana, have two children, a son, Hutch and daughter, Davis.