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30 NAIA National Championships
95 GSAC Championships
...and counting

A popular player and then assistant coach with the Cougars during the 1990s, Bo Beatty is in his eighth season on the Cougar staff, his second straight after a 5-year absence. The energetic Beatty oversees the Cougar linebackers.

Beatty originally came to Azusa Pacific as a transfer linebacker from San Bernardino (Calif.) Valley Community College. He started 12 of 18 games he played during the 1992 and 1993 seasons, playing for Cougar Hall of Fame Coach Jim Milhon.

In 1995, he began his coaching career as an assistant on first-year coach Vic Shealy’s Cougar staff. Over the next 4 seasons he became an integral figure in the Cougar defense, coaching a set of linebackers that rated among the best in program history including Josh Henderson, Jason Gregory, Elbert Baker and Jeremiah Beery.

Following the Cougars’ 1998 NAIA national championship season, Beatty continued on the Cougar staff when Peter Shinnick took over as head coach in 1999. Beatty served 2 more years before stepping away to concentrate on a flourishing teaching career.

Beatty played 2 seasons (1989-90) at San Bernardino Valley. He prepped at Bloomington (Calif.) High, from which he graduated in 1988. In 2 seasons as a fullback and linebacker on the varsity level, Beatty was part of a Bloomington program that went 22-2.

Beatty, 37, graduated from Azusa Pacific in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in physical education. He earned a master’s degree in education from Azusa Pacific in 2000.

An avid fan of country music, hunting and fishing, Beatty, who currently is the athletics director and head of the physical education department at Traweek Middle School in West Covina, resides in La Verne with his wife Carrie. They are expecting their first child during this football season.