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Ray Corona

Ray Corona is starting his 26th season as a Nebraska Wesleyan assistant football coach and is the longest tenured member of the staff. He coaches the Prairie Wolves kickers and punters.
           
Coach Corona has coached five of the top six kickers on the NWU all-time charts and five of the top six punters on the top 10 list during his tenure.
           
As the kickers coach in 2016 he coached Kramer Rath to become 2nd-Team All-IIAC and to be one of 10 finalists for the Fred Mitchell Award.  It was the 10th straight season that Corona had a kicker or punter earn All-Conference recognition.
           
In 2015, Corona coached the 2nd-Team All-GPAC kicker.  The 2014 season saw both the kicker and punter earn honorable mention All-GPAC recognition under the guidance of Coach Corona. 
           
During the 2013 season he coached both the First-Team All-GPAC punter and kicker.  He coached a 1st or 2nd team All-Conference punter for six straight seasons.  He also had his kicker earn CoSIDA Academic All-America recognition in 2013. 
           
In 2012 he coached the First-Team All-GPAC punter and had his punter and kicker both earn Academic All-America honors.  Two years prior 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 Lefler Middle School. Corona and his wife Juanita have a daughter, Karla.
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