BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Lonnie Hansen, a 30-year veteran of the collegiate coaching ranks, has been named assistant head coach and offensive line coach at Campbell University, head coach Dale Steele announced.

Hansen, who has twice served alongside of Steele in other programs, joins the Fighting Camel program after spending four years as assistant coach at China Spring (Texas) High School. Both Steele and Hansen spent four seasons on the Baylor University coaching staff from 1999-2002.

"Lonnie is an extremely experience collegiate football coach who has been in a number of programs that have had success on the Division I-A and I-AA levels," said Steele, who accepted head coaching duties last June as Campbell prepares to field its varsity team in 2008. "At Southern Miss and Louisiana-Monroe, Coach Hansen was involved with successful programs. That fact that he has also worked in a private school setting certainly helps him understand our situation and what we're trying to achieve."

Hansen will be involved in all phases of the Fighting Camel program. His primary recruiting areas included Robeson, Columbus, Scotland, Anson and Richmond counties in North Carolina, the state of South Carolina, and the Florida panhandle.

"The primary reason I'm here is because of my relationship with Coach Steele," said Hansen, who also served on the Wichita State staff with Steele during the mid-1980s. "We are looking forward to working hard and building this program from the ground up."

In his four years at China Spring High School, Hansen helped head coach Mark Bell's program extend its string of consecutive state playoff berths to nine seasons. In addition to his duties as offensive coordinator and offensive line coach, he also taught world history and coached the throwers on the track team.

At Baylor, Hansen split his four years on head coach Kevin Steele's staff between coaching the offensive and defensive lines. His recruiting assignments included West Texas high schools and West Coast junior colleges.

"Lonnie's experience will certainly aid in the growth of our program at Campbell," said Coach Steele. "He is a hard worker, very intelligent and has a great relationship with the kids. He is a good teacher and an outstanding role model for young men."

A 1978 graduate of Ottawa University in Kansas, Hansen entered the collegiate ranks as a graduate assistant at Arizona State from 1978-79. He spent six seasons with the Sun Devils, assisting on both sides of the line of scrimmage.

Hansen then spent three seasons at Wichita State as offensive line coach, then moved on to Western Kentucky (two years) and Louisiana-Monroe (five) where he participated in the NCAA 1-AA playoffs six times in seven years. During his stay at ULM, nine of Hansen's offensive linemen earned all-conference honors, while five were named All-American and one achieved Academic All-America status.

In 1994, Hansen moved on to Southern Mississippi, where he coach the offensive line and helped guide the program to three-straight winning seasons, plus a Conference USA championship. Three of his Golden Eagles went on to the National Football League.

He moved on to Friends University in Wichita, Kan., where he served as assistant head coach and offensive coordinator for two years before moving to the Big-12 Conference at Baylor.

Hansen and his wife, the former Rebecca Baker, have two sons - Robert (18) and Luke (14).