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University of Massachusets Athletics
Football
Whipple, Spencer
Spencer Whipple
- Title:
- Passing Game Coordinator/Wide Receivers
- Email:
- sjwhipple@umass.edu
- Phone:
- 545-2026
Season at Massachusetts: Fifth
Alma Mater: Miami, 2012
Spencer Whipple enters his fifth season on the Massachusetts football staff in 2018-19. He coached the tight ends in 2014 and took on the role of receivers coach prior to the 2015 season, an area he continued to work with in 2016 and did so again in 2017. In 2018-19, Whipple adds the responsibility of being the team's quarterbacks coach while he continues his role as passing game coordinator.
Whipple continued to elevate the team's offensive success in 2017, as Massachusetts posted record book numbers ranking among the top-five in team history for pass completions, total passing yards and passing yards per game, passer efficiency and average yards per pass attempt.
As the team's wide receivers coach in 2017, Whipple also guided a youthful core alongside veteran standout Andy Isabella. The group of receivers - including tight end Adam Breneman - amassed the second-most receptions per game in program history (22.67) alongside the third-most total catches (272) and receptions yards (3,570).
Following the success of 2017, wide receivers Andy Isabella and Sadiq Palmer and tight end Adam Breneman collected Phil Steele All-Independent honors, while Breneman nabbed USA TODAY All-America.
A pair of receivers emerged in the UMass offensive set during 2016 thanks in part to Whipple's guidance as Breneman and Isabella combined for more than 50 percent of the team's receptions, receiving yards and touchdown catches.
Breneman was a 2016 Campus Insiders Second Team All-America choice, John Mackey Award semifinalist and Phil Steele First Team All-Independent selection at tight end. Isabella won Phil Steele First Team All-Independent at wide receiver after he posted a breakout season that featured a nearly 800 percent increase on his total receiving yards (7 in 2015; 801 in 2016).
During the 2015 campaign, under Whipple’s direction, senior Tajae Sharpe put together one of the most dominant receiver seasons in program history. Sharpe, who is now in his third season in the NFL, set Massachusetts football records for single-game receptions (15) vs. Florida International on Oct. 3, single-season receptions (111), career receptions (277) and career receiving yards (3,486). A two-time first-team All-MAC honoree, at the conclusion of the 2015 season, Sharpe led the nation in receptions per game (9.3) and total receptions (111). Also among FBS players, he was No. 6 in receiving yards per game with 109.9 and No. 12 in total yards with 1,319.
Whipple helped Sharpe, Massachusetts' first All-American since 2011, earned second-team All-America honors from the Walter Camp Football Foundation and fourth-team All-America honors from Phil Steele. Sharpe was the 140th pick in the fifth round of the 2016 NFL Draft by the Tennessee Titans and UMass' highest pick since offensive lineman Vladimir Ducasse in 2010 (second round, 61st pick).
Previously, Whipple was a member of the Pittsburgh staff as a defensive graduate assistant and video assistant.
Son of UMass head coach Mark Whipple, Spencer is no stranger to Amherst, being raised in the area during his father's first tenure directing the UMass football program (1998-2003). Additionally, he spent one season (2008) with the Minutemen as a quarterback.
Spencer Whipple's playing career also included stops at Pittsburgh and Miami (Fla.). In 2007, he walked-on to the Pitt squad, then played in each game at Miami in 2010 and 2011, as the team's holder and backup quarterback. During his senior season in 2011, he received the Mariutto Family Scholar-Athlete Award and, as a holder, helped lead the Hurricanes to a 39-for-39 PAT rate and 11-for-14 field goal rate.
As a student-athlete at Pine-Richland High School (Pa.), Spencer Whipple threw for nearly 1,500 yards during his senior season, including 11 touchdowns. The run helped compose the Rams' 11-1 record and subsequent Greater Allegheny Conference Championship. That season, he earned "Fabulous 22" North honors from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
He earned his sociology degree from the University of Miami in 2012.
Updated: Feb. 4, 2018
Alma Mater: Miami, 2012
Spencer Whipple enters his fifth season on the Massachusetts football staff in 2018-19. He coached the tight ends in 2014 and took on the role of receivers coach prior to the 2015 season, an area he continued to work with in 2016 and did so again in 2017. In 2018-19, Whipple adds the responsibility of being the team's quarterbacks coach while he continues his role as passing game coordinator.
Whipple continued to elevate the team's offensive success in 2017, as Massachusetts posted record book numbers ranking among the top-five in team history for pass completions, total passing yards and passing yards per game, passer efficiency and average yards per pass attempt.
As the team's wide receivers coach in 2017, Whipple also guided a youthful core alongside veteran standout Andy Isabella. The group of receivers - including tight end Adam Breneman - amassed the second-most receptions per game in program history (22.67) alongside the third-most total catches (272) and receptions yards (3,570).
Following the success of 2017, wide receivers Andy Isabella and Sadiq Palmer and tight end Adam Breneman collected Phil Steele All-Independent honors, while Breneman nabbed USA TODAY All-America.
A pair of receivers emerged in the UMass offensive set during 2016 thanks in part to Whipple's guidance as Breneman and Isabella combined for more than 50 percent of the team's receptions, receiving yards and touchdown catches.
Breneman was a 2016 Campus Insiders Second Team All-America choice, John Mackey Award semifinalist and Phil Steele First Team All-Independent selection at tight end. Isabella won Phil Steele First Team All-Independent at wide receiver after he posted a breakout season that featured a nearly 800 percent increase on his total receiving yards (7 in 2015; 801 in 2016).
During the 2015 campaign, under Whipple’s direction, senior Tajae Sharpe put together one of the most dominant receiver seasons in program history. Sharpe, who is now in his third season in the NFL, set Massachusetts football records for single-game receptions (15) vs. Florida International on Oct. 3, single-season receptions (111), career receptions (277) and career receiving yards (3,486). A two-time first-team All-MAC honoree, at the conclusion of the 2015 season, Sharpe led the nation in receptions per game (9.3) and total receptions (111). Also among FBS players, he was No. 6 in receiving yards per game with 109.9 and No. 12 in total yards with 1,319.
Whipple helped Sharpe, Massachusetts' first All-American since 2011, earned second-team All-America honors from the Walter Camp Football Foundation and fourth-team All-America honors from Phil Steele. Sharpe was the 140th pick in the fifth round of the 2016 NFL Draft by the Tennessee Titans and UMass' highest pick since offensive lineman Vladimir Ducasse in 2010 (second round, 61st pick).
Previously, Whipple was a member of the Pittsburgh staff as a defensive graduate assistant and video assistant.
Son of UMass head coach Mark Whipple, Spencer is no stranger to Amherst, being raised in the area during his father's first tenure directing the UMass football program (1998-2003). Additionally, he spent one season (2008) with the Minutemen as a quarterback.
Spencer Whipple's playing career also included stops at Pittsburgh and Miami (Fla.). In 2007, he walked-on to the Pitt squad, then played in each game at Miami in 2010 and 2011, as the team's holder and backup quarterback. During his senior season in 2011, he received the Mariutto Family Scholar-Athlete Award and, as a holder, helped lead the Hurricanes to a 39-for-39 PAT rate and 11-for-14 field goal rate.
As a student-athlete at Pine-Richland High School (Pa.), Spencer Whipple threw for nearly 1,500 yards during his senior season, including 11 touchdowns. The run helped compose the Rams' 11-1 record and subsequent Greater Allegheny Conference Championship. That season, he earned "Fabulous 22" North honors from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
He earned his sociology degree from the University of Miami in 2012.
Updated: Feb. 4, 2018
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