Allen University

An accomplish coordinator and head coach, Boulware brings 27 years of coaching experience to Allen University in his second season in 2025. Boulware is a proven defensive mind, achieving the No. 1 rated defense nationally at six different institutions. 
 
Prior to joining the Yellow Jackets, Boulware served as the defensive coordinator at Alabama A&M, coaching alongside Allen head coach Cedric Pearl in Huntsville, AL, for the two seasons. Under Boulware’s leadership, the Bulldogs led the NCAA in 2023 in forced turnovers and fumbles recovered and were No. 2 nationally in 4^th down conversion percentage defense. He began his tenure at Alabama A&M as the defensive line coach during the 2021 season, before being elevated to defensive coordinator in week six that season and finishing the year on a 4-0 stretch. 
 
In the six seasons before his time in Huntsville, Boulware was the head coach at Winston Salem State University from 2014-2020. Leading the Rams, Boulware won 49 games from 2014-2019, a tenure that included three consecutive appearances in the CIAA Championship game, winning in 2015 and 2016, a playoff appearance in 2016, and a pair of nine-win seasons in 2014 and 2016. WSSU did not play during the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Before taking over as head coach before the 2014 season, Boulware was no stranger to WSSU, serving as the Rams’ defensive coordinator for the four previous seasons from 2010-2013. He took a defense that was a part of a four-win season prior to his arrival and turned it into three-straight 10-win seasons, back-to-back CIAA championships, five playoff wins, and a runner-up finish in the 2012 NCAA Division II National Championship game. 
 
From 2006 to 2010, Boulware spent four seasons as the defensive coordinator at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC, winning two CIAA titles and having his defense lead all of NCAA Division II in total defense in back-to-back seasons. Boulware has also worked as an assistant coach at North Carolina Central University from 1999-2005 and at Livingstone College from 1997-1998. 
 
Boulware got his start in coaching as a student assistant coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, under College Football Hall of Fame coach Mack Brown, from 1994-1997. Boulware joining the coaching staff following a two-year playing career with the Tar Heels and in 1996, helped lead UNC to the No. 1 total defense in the country. 

He is married to Kellie Boulware.