Kevin Lasley enters his fifth season as an assistant football coach at Illinois College. Lasley works primarily with the defensive line.

Lasley earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Eastern Illinois University, where he was a four-year letterman as a member of the football team. He later earned his doctorate at the University of Arkansas. Lasley has previously served as head football coach at Earlville High School and Newman High School, and as an assistant at University of Northwestern (Minn.). He also served as a professor of sport administration at Eastern Illinois before retiring in 2003. For the next nine years he was a missionary on the Nett Lake (Minn.) Indian Reservation.

Lasley and his wife, Kathy, reside in Loami. They have three grown children and three grandchildren.