Nebraska Wesleyan University Athletics

Ray Corona is starting his 20th season as a Nebraska Wesleyan assistant football coach and is the longest tenured member of the staff. This season he will again help with the punters and kickers.  Last season he coached both the First-Team All-GPAC punter and kicker.  He has coached a 1^st or 2^nd team All-Conference punter for six straight seasons.  He also had his kicker earn CoSIDA Academic All-America recognition in 2013. 
           
Coach Corona has coached four of the top five kickers on the NWU all-time charts and two of the top three punters on the top 10 list during his tenure.
           
In 2012 he coached the First-Team All-GPAC punter and had his punter and kicker both earn Academic All-America honors.   
           
In 2010 he coached Ethan Hunke to become the top statistical punter in the country and become an All-American. 
           
Corona coached wide receivers and defensive backs at Lincoln East High School from 1985 to 1991 before moving to Lincoln High School where he spent eight years teaching and coaching.
           
Corona was a two-year letter winner as a wide receiver at Kearney State College before transferring to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he earned his degree in Education. He currently teaches at Scott Middle School. Corona and his wife Juanita have a daughter, Karla.