Bio

Jim McGuire - Head Coach (2nd Season) (2-8)

Jim Mcguire enters his second season as the head coach of the Fitchburg State football team and 12th overall season with the program for the 2019 season.

McGuire started his collegiate coaching career as an assistant coach at Dean College during the 1998 season before becoming the Falcons running backs coach in 1999. Following one season as an assistant coach at Assumption, Jim returned to Fitchburg State as the Offensive Coordination from 2002-2005. From 2008-2011, McGuire served as an assistant coach (Running Backs) at Assumption College before becoming the Falcons Offensive Coordinator during the 2011 campaign. Following a third stint at Assumpiton (2012), Jim served as an assistant coach at WPI from 2013-14. 

Coach McGuire returned to Fitchburg State the following season, serving as the Special Team Coordinator/Running Back Coach from 2015-18, before taking over the head coaching duties in February of 2018.

He currently resides in Clinton, Mass.