STATESBORO - Genevieve Humphrey, an assistant strength & conditioning coach with the Georgia Southern football program, has been selected for the inaugural Tampa Bay Buccaneers National Coaching Academy class, as announced Tuesday by the organization. The Academy will take place this coming May.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers established a coaching academy that delivers an intensive, comprehensive curriculum and opportunity to participate in the team's 2024 rookie mini-camp for coaching candidates seeking their first entry into the NFL. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers National Coaching Academy is open to all persons with three or more years of coaching or work experience in a football program at the high school, college or semi-professional league level, irrespective of background or status. Twenty-five finalists were selected from a global search and participants will be awarded full scholarships to cover costs in Tampa for the week-long Academy.

The inaugural class will receive valuable on-field experience, interactive sessions, business insights, media training, film review, and instruction on key football software with NFL players, coaches and staff. Participants will be given hands-on instruction as well as valuable networking opportunities with Buccaneers coaches and staff members throughout the organization. The Academy complements the NFL's long-established Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship, created in 1987, to open pathways for minority coaches into the league.

Humphrey is in her second year working with the Eagle football team.