After serving as offensive coordinator for head coach Blaine McCorkle at Belhaven, Carson Stewart returns to that role in his second year on the Northwestern State staff.
In his first season with the Demons, Stewart coached the team’s receivers and watched Myles Kitt-Denton develop into a field-stretching, big-play threat who had four touchdown receptions of at least 60 yards.
Before arriving in Natchitoches, Stewart spent his final three seasons as the Blazers’ offensive coordinator, helping rebuild the Belhaven program and delivering the school’s first outright conference championship and Division III playoff berth in 2023.
Led by Gagliardi Trophy semifinalist Kolbe Blunt and All-American offensive lineman Kendrioun Boatman, the Blazers rushed for 270.5 yards per game, a top-five mark nationally, while averaging 35.8 points per game. The Belhaven rushing attack averaged 6.1 yards per carry while Belhaven averaged 6.7 yards per play as an offense.
Joining Blunt and Boatman on the D3Football.com All-Region III team was guard David Turner.
Belhaven’s and Stewart’s success came after delivering a school-record 38 points per game in 2022. That season, the Blazers tied single-game school records for points (70) and touchdowns (10) in a win against LaGrange.Â
Those marks came two weeks after Belhaven produced school single-game records in total offense (702 yards) and rushing yards (492).Â
Belhaven’s record-setting 2022 season came after a 2021 campaign in which four Blazers earned first-team All-American Southwest Conference honors and a pair being named to the D3Football.com’s All-Region III Team.
Quarterback Mayowa Asagunla, running back Brad Foley and offensive linemen Botaman and Turner were first-team all-conference picks from Stewart’s offense while Cole McAlpin and Blunt were second-team picks. Foley earned first-team All-Region III honors that season.
After spending two seasons as a graduate assistant at Belhaven, Stewart coached the Blazers’ quarterbacks, including Asagunla, whose 67-percent completion percentage led the American Southwest Conference in the Spring 2021 season, earning him all-conference honors.
As a graduate assistant at Belhaven, Stewart coached wide receivers, helping Mario Asagunla and Joey Walden earn all-conference honors. Walden currently plays professionally in Germany for the Langenfield Longhorns.
Before arriving at Belhaven, Stewart coached three seasons at Fort Hill High School in Cumberland, Maryland. With Stewart on staff, the Sentinels reached three straight Maryland Class 1A state championship games, winning a pair of state titles. At Fort Hill, Stewart coached various positions on both sides of the ball.Â
Stewart comes from a football coaching family, including his cousin, Chad Wilt, who coaches rush ends and is the co-special teams coordinator at Michigan State, and his uncles, Steve Wilt, an assistant coach at the University of Saint Francis and Randy Stewart, who coaches at Chestnut Ridge High School in Pennsylvania.
A graduate of Frostburg State in health and physical education, Stewart is the son of Vince and Jody Montana and has one sister, Lauren.Â
He is married to the former Madison McClure of Cleveland, Mississippi.
